Getting Greater Impact Through the Voice: Developing a more confident and convincing voice for public speaking; Developing a greater range of voice expression; and Influencing your audience with the power of your voice.

2. Getting Greater Impact Through the Voice

 Developing a more confident and
convincing voice for public speaking
 Developing a greater range of voice
expression
 Influencing your audience with the
power of your voice

3. Your Top Fears List
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 Speaking to a Group 41%
 Height 32%
 Insects and Bugs 24%
 Financial Problems 23%
 Deep Water 22%
 Sickness 20%
 Death 19%
 Flying 18%
 (From “the Book of Lists”, 1977)

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 Only 7% of human communication is through the
actual words
 93% with what we communicate is non-verbal:
 Tone of voice
 Pitch
 Posture
 Micro-expressions on our face
 Gestures

5. Diagnostics
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6. Voice Qualities
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 Breathy voice
 Full voice
 Chesty voice
 Thin voice
 What is your voice quality?

7. Vocalization
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Volume – loudness or softness
Pitch – highness or lowness of the voice
Rate speed at which you speak

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Pauses – momentary breaks in your
speaking
 avoid vocalized pauses
Variety
Pronunciation

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Articulation – physical production of speech
sounds
 we habitually chop, slur and mumble, rather than
enunciating
Dialect –accent, grammar or vocabulary

10. WARM UP
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 Stretching & Neck Exercises
 Breathing
 Humming
 Resonance
 Staccatos

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 Yawsa Exercise – helps relax our muscles for better
circulation

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21. Telling a Story
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 You will be assigned one fable per group
 Divide the fable into reading parts & assign a part to
each member
 Interpret the fable based on the emotion depicted in
the story using:
 vocal clarity,
 variety,
 projection and
 proper enunciation.

22. The Five Different Emotions
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 Joy/Happiness
 Sorrow/Sadness
 Fear
 Anger
 Pain

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You’re Nothing But a Second
Rate, Trying Hard Copycat
 Say it using the five different emotions.

24. The Body
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 Gestures
 Visual Impact on the Audience
 Building Rapport

25. What is body language?
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 It is carriage, facial expressions, eye contact and
gestures.
 It helps you:
 Understand people better
 Know when the person is bored
 Or interested
 Or disagrees with you

26. Reading Faces
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 'I don't believe that.'
 'I'm thinking hard'
 'I don't like whatever you've just told me’
 ‘Uh-oh’
 I can not tell you that information
 Everything is under control

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 Stage Fright Gestures Make Audience Nervous
 gripping the lectern,
 clenching your hands together,
 clutching an object,
 fiddling with clothing or accessories or
 touching a body part (pulling ear, wiping brow, rubbing
chin)

28. STAGE FRIGHT ISSUES
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 Fear of one's mind going blank
 Trembling, shaking or showing other signs of anxiety
 Doing something embarrassing
 Inability to continue talking
 Saying foolish things or not making sense

29. COMBATING STAGE FRIGHT
 Look at your mental pictures
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 Be positive instead of thinking negative
 Exaggerating your symptoms
 If you suffer from shaky hands and sweaty palms, try to
make them shake and sweat more.
 Arrive early
 Breathe in, breathe out
 When all else fails, SMILE.

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 Gestures are like seasoning
 The face is where our conviction, love, joy, pain,
sorrow, and hope can be communicated without a
word.
 In effect, it is like saying the same thing twice. Once
with your words, and once with your face.

31. Types of Public Speaking Gestures
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 Empathic
 Descriptive

32. Empathic Gestures
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 They express those things you feel, the convictions
you have.
 They can be the period or exclamation mark at the
end of a phrase.
 They can give power and energy to the speech.
 They are subjective in nature.

33. Descriptive Gestures
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 They show how big, how small, which way, position,
and location.
 Anything you can touch.
 They are objective in nature.

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35. Demo the FF Gestures
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 A-Ok
 Blah-blah
 Check please
 Clenched Fist
 Crossed Fingers
 Finger Gun
 Fist Bump
 High Five

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 Hitchhiking
 Knock on Wood
 Loser
 Money Sign
 Raised Fist
 Salute
 Talk to the Hand
 Telephone

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 Air Quotes
 Hand Rubbing
 Jazz Hands
 Whatever
 Air Kiss

38. Charades!
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 Category:
 Movie Titles (local and international)

39. For the Workshop Output
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 Group yourselves into five
 Prepare a 5-minute presentation based on the topic
you will pick out
 Each member of the group should have a speaking
part
 You will be evaluated based on:
 Voice
 Body Language