Public Speaking, Presentation & Leadership Skills

Tips for improving vocal Variety Have you ever listened to a recording of your voice and cringed?  Perhaps you were surprised about how nasally or high-pitched it was, or how hard you were to understand. Perhaps in that moment you wished for a more soothing, pleasant-sounding voice. It must be remembered voice of every person is unique and engaging, we only have to train to remove the distractions in our voice, that  suppress  the quality of our natural voice. We have discussed about vocal variety and its importance in previous post . Here we will be discussion about few steps to remove the distractions and improve our voice quality for public speaking. Step 1- Speak-up .    It's important to be heard when you speak, so raise your voice! If you tend to whisper, mumble or speak with your head down, it is much easier for people to get distracted and start ignoring you. Please note that this doesn’t mean you should be shouting from the word go. Shoutin...

Ever heard of the saying “It’s not what you say it’s how you say it?” Does your voice put your audience to sleep? Does it put you to sleep? Do you find it hard to convey emotions with your voice? Are you easy to listen to, or does your voice let you down? Toastmasters Project 6 – Vocal Variety guides you to harness your own voice. The previous projects were about communicating coherent ideas, simply, and to the point. This project takes it a notch higher making you aware of how to use your voice to communicate. The most interesting thing is that we innately know how to use our voices to convey excitement, joy, surprise love or sadness as these are all key ingredient of our daily and we unconsciously use it almost all the time. In speech or public speaking we are conscious that our voice has to communicate the emotion we have to say, and that’s where something strange happens and we forget the very basics. Remember that our voice is the best tool available i...