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The Art of Public Speaking
Our Public Speaking training workshops are designed for both the inexperienced presenter or as a refresher for more experienced members of your company or organization. Our training workshops are offered in most major cities across the United States and Canada. All public speaking skills training workshops are small which will give you all the face to face time you need with our training team.

Our public speaking training workshops (presentation training) will eliminate your fear or inexperience in public speaking and dramatically improve your speaking skills whether you are persuading, educating, or informing. Our highly interactive workshops focus on professional business communication including preparation, structure, delivery, and strategy, use of visual aids, and handling questions & answers. Contact us today by phone at 713-627-7700 or via email: service@publicspeakingtraining.net

Public Speaking Skills Training: Improving Your Voice for Public Speaking Workshops

A creative pleasurable approach will go a long way to building good vocal habits for public speaking. Here are seven days of activities that will activate multiple levels of your voice. Some of them you can do while doing other activities. Some of them require all your attention. Nonetheless, they will take just a little time and be of huge benefit if a great voice is important to your public speaking career.

Day One: Exercise Your Voice
The most important thing is to warm up or exercise your voice on a regular basis. On the first day of the week, choose a voice exercise for the whole week that will strengthen a part of your voice that needs strengthening. Do some research online for ideas or get ideas at Vocal Mapping. A few minutes a day of exercising your voice works to both strengthen and build a habit. This is the only exercise you will do each day along with the other daily exercises following.

Day Two: Write
Writing is like dumping the mental trash. It also brings insights and "aha" moments. Again this doesn’t have to be for a prescribed time or amount of lines covered on a page. How long or how much you write is completely up to you. When you know the trash is dumped, move on to your next activity of the day.

Day Three: Learn
Find something inspiring that you want to learn in a book, blog or podcast. Just pick a topic and type a few keywords into a search engine or make that trip to the library. Where does the voice come in? Read bits of it out loud as though you were reading to someone equally enchanted with the information. Learning keeps the brain activated and builds knowledge. It's good practice in using your voice expressively, and you never know when that particular knowledge will come in handy.

Day Four: Listen
Today is the day you will be an active listener. Listen beyond the surface meaning of the words to the underlying messages. Unless directly asked, listen in silence without giving opinions, advice or feedback. Just acknowledge that you really hear the other person. Fully engage in what they’re saying.

Day Five: Voice Massage
I’ve observed that my voice was always lower and fuller after a regular massage. Often tension is carried in the throat area because muscles that are not really a part of the vocal mechanism are being activated. To give yourself a voice massage, sit or lie in a comfortable position and massage the area around the larynx. Avoid the absolute centre of the throat. Instead massage the side of your neck and upper shoulders to loosen the muscles around the voice box. Use massage oil to make it easier. Relax for a few minutes afterwards. If you have a partner or friend who will do this for you, all the better.

Day Six: Play a Little
As adults we really take ourselves seriously. And serious pursuits are part of life. It means we are passionate. But fun is also part of passion. For day six, play with your voice a little. Tell some jokes to your cat. Recite a poem in your car. Sing a children’s song in the shower. Feel silly? Good.

Day Seven: Celebrate
You will very likely have had some insight, some "aha" moment, some triumph during the past six days. Celebrate it. Or simply celebrate that you actually did all the activities for the previous six days. Celebrate that you sound more confident. Celebrate that you are well on your way to developing a great public speaking habit. Celebrate the fact that you are going to start all over next week and repeat the seven steps. Well done!

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