Unlocking The Power
Of Your Voice
Course details
Unlocking The Power Of Your Voice comprises 6 mini courses covering all the key vocal skills needed to be a dynamic and impactful speaker. Whether in the boardroom, at the podium, during pitches or presentations, learning these vocal skills will improve every aspect of your delivery.
This course includes:
What You will learn in Unlocking The Power of Your Voice
Speaking To Be Heard
You will learn to use the volume of your voice to:
- Emphasise key points in your script making your delivery dynamic and engaging.
- Add weight to serious points in your message to hold the attention of your audience.
- Convey authority and sound like a leader, when speaking in front of large audiences.
- Open and close speeches with a confident and inspiring delivery.
You will learn skills and techniques to:
- Naturally use diaphragmatic breathing to give your voice more power when speaking to large audiences.
- Build your lung capacity to give you a solid foundation for your voice to maintain authority when presenting.
- Deliver your content using correct posture to sustain a powerful voice and overcome nerves.
- Record and analyse your voice to hear specific volume changes and their impact on your delivery.
Making Words Pop
You will learn how to use word stress to:
- Clearly outline the structure of your delivery, to allow your audience to follow your ideas right from the start.
- Focus the attention of your audience on the key points of your presentation.
- Add emotion and energy to your delivery to bring your speech to life and engage your listeners.
- Make your message memorable through controlling the emphasis of specific words – a key skill of storytelling.
You will learn skills and techniques to:
- Identify syllable stress patterns in nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs to increase engagement when delivering speeches.
- Make complex ideas clearer through the use of contrastive stress.
- Improve your delivery through marking up and delivering practice texts.
- Record and analyse your voice to hear how word stress increases engagement.
Adding Life To Your Voice
You will learn to use intonation to:
- Help the listener understand the exact meaning behind your message.
- Overcome a monotone delivery to create engagement with your listeners.
- Vary your pitch to keep your listeners focused on your presentation.
- Understand rising, falling and list intonation patterns.
You will learn skills and techniques to:
- Find your lowest natural pitch range to speak with authority.
- Practice intonation patterns that will make you sound engaging.
- Convey emotion and meaning through intonation to keep your audience engaged.
- Record and analyse your voice to ensure your delivery is dynamic.
The Perfect Pace
You will learn to use pacing to:
- Convey excitement and energy in your voice to inspire and influence your listeners.
- Slow down for emphasis and impact when speaking to large groups.
- Vary the speed of your presentation, to share different kinds of information, from technical data to innovative ideas.
- Appear relaxed, confident and in control, even if you are nervous.
You will learn skills and techniques to:
- Find a comfortable slower pace (slower than a normal conversational pace) that is necessary for good public speaking.
- Adapt your speaking speeds to match your content and your audience.
- Maintain a slow but authentic speaking pace, if you feel that you usually speak too fast.
- Record, play back and analyse your voice to assess your progress, embed the learning, and ensure your delivery is dynamic.
Giving Weight To Your Words
You will learn to use pausing to:
- Hold and keep your audience’s attention throughout your presentation through the use of audio punctuation.
- Control the pace of your speech to convey confidence and authority.
- Replace unprofessional sounding filler words (um, er etc.) to enhance your executive presence.
- Help your audience understand your key points when presenting complex data.
You will learn skills and techniques to:
- Choose appropriate pauses (comma pauses, sentence pauses and emphasis pauses) to convey meaning and underline your message.
- Punctuate your speech or presentation with well-timed pauses to help control the flow of your ideas.
- Gain confidence in using pauses – silence can sometimes be more powerful than words.
- Record, play back and analyse your voice to assess your progress, embed the learning, and ensure your delivery has impact.
The Key To Clarity
You will learn to:
- Identify the most important words and phrases in your speech to help your audience follow your ideas.
- Prepare any speech or presentation into ‘thought chunks’ for a more powerful delivery.
- Combine pacing, pausing and word stress through the use of chunking to control the flow of information to your audience.
- Make any speech clearer and more engaging right from the start.
You will learn skills and techniques to:
- Mark up speeches systematically so they are delivered like a professional speaker.
- Help with script memorization while you speak.
- Build trust in your audience by maintaining eye contact rather than looking at your notes.
- Record and analyse your voice to ensure your delivery is engaging.
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A Little Bit About Me
I’ve been working in the world of voice for over 30 years. I began my career in London at the BBC working on documentaries, TV shows and films. I’m now an audio producer, studio director, voice over artist and executive voice coach. But my greatest achievement has been using my many years of experience to create executive voice and presence coaching programs that help good speakers become great speakers.
Based in Asia since 1996, I’ve run workshops and webinars across the region and beyond; Hong Kong, India, Dubai, Singapore, China, Korea, Japan, the US and Australia. I’ve had the pleasure of coaching CEOs, senior partners, young executives, and TEDx speakers, teaching them the skills to speak with impact, power and authority. I’ve worked with many of the major global financial institutions and international legal firms, including Goldman Sachs, Standard Chartered, HSBC, Baker McKenzie, Nomura, Credit Suisse, Hogan Lovells, HSF, DLA Piper, as well as JLL, Bloomberg, Microsoft, Weber Shandwick, Estee Lauder, Van Cleef & Arpels and many more.
As a voice expert I’ve written opinion columns and articles for advertising and human resources publications and been interviewed for newspaper articles, TV shows, radio and podcasts, sharing my knowledge and expertise on the importance of voice. I was also delighted to be voted a top Hong Kong Influencer for my work in this field.
If you want to know more about my passion for voice, you can read more here – About Me.