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Building The Power Of Your Voice:
How to Improve Your Voice to Command Attention & Move People to Action
You dress for success, diet to stay trim, exercise to stay slim and eat to stay healthy. But how do you sound?
In business and social situations the impression you make is determined largely by how you sound. Your voice leaves a far more lasting impression than your appearance.
According to recognized experts, billions of dollars are lost each year in missed opportunities and squandered sales all because of the ineffective way people speak.
The Internet, e-mail, voice mail, faxes and modems have all had their impact on communication. Technology that was beyond our comprehension just a few years ago now enables us to communicate easily and quickly anywhere in the world. But despite all of these incredible advances, nothing will ever take the place of the human voice. The spoken word has always been and always will be the most important means of interpersonal communication.
Whether you're speaking one on one, giving a presentation before a group, chairing a committee or selling on the telephone, how you use your voice is critical.
First impressions
When Dr. June Johnson, started voice coaching a number of years ago, her first client was a young man recommended to her by a speech therapist. Mike was a tall, good-looking architect who wanted to apply for an opening at a more prestigious firm. Her first impression on meeting him was that he did not need voice therapy, he needed vocal coaching. He lacked self-confidence. He would need to address that problem head-on before interviewing for any position.
They worked together every week for over two months to bring the depth to his voice that would convey authority. He had it within him, he only needed to believe he did. When Mike felt his confidence growing, he arranged for the interview. When he came back to tell Dr. Johnson about it, he was full of smiles. "I spoke with such confidence," he said, "that I didn't know myself."
Improving his speech had done wonders for Mike's image and self-confidence. As a postscript to this story, Dr. Johnson reports that Mike went into a more prestigious architectural firm.
You can accomplish the same with your voice and realize the same success Mike did. Little else helps your self-confidence and ego more than knowing you speak well.
Public examples
It's no accident that Ronald Reagan was called the "Great Communicator." As an actor, he was trained to speak well and use his voice to move, persuade and inspire. When he was in public office, he was able to use this skill to put his message across.
Other candidates, on the other hand, may have lost their bids for the presidency simply because of the way they speak. They are boring to listen to. Their voices lack vitality and energy, giving the impression that they aren't particularly interested in, nor commited to, what they are saying.
To speak well, you first need to have an interest in what you are saying, and then say it with interest. How you hear yourself is not necessarily how others hear you.
How much thought and attention have you given to your voice? How you speak permeates everything you do and reveals so many things about you-your educational level, professional competence, personality, mood, attitude toward others and feelings about yourself.
Think of your voice as your "vocal writing."
You can get by with poor handwriting, but not with poor "vocal-writing."
Illegible handwriting may or may not affect how you are perceived. But unintelligible speech, poor articulation or lazy speech is a serious problem.
First impressions are made in the first ten to fifteen seconds and are often difficult to change. Physical characteristics tend to fade into the background, vocal characteristics do not.
 Learn to make the most of your voice. Building The Power Of Your Voice: How to Improve Your Voice to Command Attention & Move People to Action and its accompanying audio CDs are designed to help you use that power and to significantly increase the quality of your voice. In it, you'll learn things about yourself that you've probably never realized. You'll also learn how to correct problems with your voice and will receive specific exercises, techniques, and voice analysis techniques to ensure that you actually achieve the goal of improved speech. You'll learn:
- How to identify problems in your voice
- How to solve common speech problems like mumblin, dropping syllables, fading, hesitating, upspeak, talking at people, using fillers, and improper rate of speech
- How to develop your own personal speaking style
- How to develop better inflection, pacing, pauses, phrasing, word stress, energy, and vitality - with specific exercises that focus on each area
- How breathing affects your speech
- How to improve your breathing to increase the power of your speaking voice
- How to improve your articulation, the key to having understandable speech
- Specific exercises that help you deal with the common articulation problem areas of consonants, commonly mispronounced words, vowel usage and slurring
- How to make your voice more warm and caring
- How and when to practice speaking (yes, you can fit it into your day without significantly changing your schedule)
- The importance of body language, how to understand it and use it to your advantage
- How to control the pitch of your voice
- How to effectively use your eyes, facial expressions, gestures and stance to convey your message
Then this training manual brings everything together with a by focusing on application of these vocal techniques in common usage situations:
- How to develop better presentation skills
- How to handle and deal with your fear of speaking
- How to utilize your vocal skills on the phone
- How to effectively and actively listen
- How to care for your voice, so that it can remain powerful for the rest of your life
 Building The Power Of Your Voice: How to Improve Your Voice to Command Attention & Move People to Action is available in two different formats, either as a book, or as a two-disk audio CD. Frankly, we recommend getting both, as the book provides the exercises in writing, while the CDs help you hear the proper way to do the exercises and pronouce the words.
And, of course, it’s backed by our 100% satisfaction guarantee!
The book is an instantly downloadable PDF file, the CDs will be shipped to you.
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