Tips and Tricks

The major problem when presenting, coaching, teaching or public speaking is that people speak with the same uninteresting tone of voice, inflection, projection, and characteristics that they use in boring casual conversation. They don’t capture and hold onto their audiences. When you take control of the meeting, you can’t be casual, nonchalant, and just chat…

Hello Friends! Here are some thoughts on coaching for the week… My formula for proficiency as a speaker is: Mindset + Skills = Masterful Speaking.My mission is to teach and empower clients to aquire and grow skills and mindsets that transform their speaking and communication. Think of the growth experience of kids’ sports. They’re playing…

Dear Friends: I’ve been in a delightful flurry of SpeakFluence coaching activity these past weeks, including a week out of the country, so I haven’t posted for a bit. I have a number of Posts I’d like to share. For today, here’s an important tip to help you engage and captivate your audiences. Speak in…

My 5-yr-old grandson has an excellent vocabulary, great sense of humor, and understands concepts quickly and readily. One of the areas he has challenges in is verbal word pronunciation. This generally calls for work with a speech therapist. As a voice coach, I have had a number of clients who have had articulation issues that…

There are certain elements present in great speakers that cause their audiences to sit up and take notice. These speakers create feelings, insights and responses within their listeners. What sets them apart from the general population who speak or converse with little to no impact? It is this: Great speakers employ principles, skills and techniques…

I was listening to a CEO being interviewed about his company. He obviously knew everything about his company, what it does, all of its features and broad aspects. He spoke pretty fluidly, but mostly in the same tone of voice throughout; what I call a horizontal delivery where everything starts in neutral and stays there…

“Do you just want to talk? Or do you want what you say to be memorable and leave an impression?   Do you want what you say to have Impact, be Interesting and have Influence on the listener?” “If so, there are certain things you must do.  If you don’t, you will simply be delivering…