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'Performance Equals Productivity'
Duration: |
A one day course |
Suitable for: |
This course has been designed specifically for people who feel their voice is not being heard properly. This can be for a variety of reasons: English may not be your first language, you may have a strong accent or you don’t speak as clearly as you’d like to. If you’d like to be heard, this course is for you |
Objectives: |
Learn breathing techniques that improve the quality of your speech · Know how important posture is to speaking clearly · Know how to articulate more clearly · Be more confident in your use of emphasis and inflection · Have identified problem words and phrases and learned how to pronounce them correctly · Have practise strategies to continue improving the clarity of your speech. |
Locations: |
Speak Clearly - Be Heard course: Guildford, Surrey & London |
Setting the context
- What are we going to cover today?
- What brings you here and what do you want from the day?
Some basics on the voice and how it works
- What happens in your mouth and throat when you use your voice
- Breath – the vital fuel for your voice
Clear speech and how to achieve it
- Pronunciation – the principles
- Using vowels and consonants correctly
- Articulating properly
- Exercises on using inflection, emphasis and intonation
- The effect of your voice on other people
Correct Pronunciation
- Identifying problem words and phrases and learning how to say them correctly
How to be clear and succinct
- Practical exercises on making your voice firmer, fuller and more flowing
- Freeing up the voice
Change
- What’s needed to break long established habits
- How to practise back in the ‘real world’
By definition this training course consists of lots of practice activity and exercises. Full participation is essential by each delegate attending.
How to maintain your vocal development with practical exercises you can do at home.
Course Delivered by our Partners at GBC Learning
Course Dates:
London: 11 February 2009
Guildford: Additional dates coming soon
Course Price: £285 per person
Book online or alternatively, make an enquiry about this course
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