http://katepeters.com/blog/2010/05/18/when-you-must-read-aloud-the-voice-in-business/ A blog about voices: using them, freeing them...and hearing them Tue, 09 Apr 2013 07:53:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://katepeters.com/blog/2010/05/18/when-you-must-read-aloud-the-voice-in-business/comment-page-1/#comment-189 Ricardo Levy Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:36:24 +0000 http://katepeters.com/blog/?p=757#comment-189 I like your suggested practice steps. The CEO of a public company has a quarterly task to report results. We generally have a prepared script, which already stiffens the delivery, and the communication task is exacerbated by the fact that we not only do not see our audience, we often do not even know if anyone is listening. Rarely do we spend much time practicing. Yet it is a necessary outreach activity so we might as well make the best of it. I will confess that even after having done it perhaps forty or fifty times I still sometimes could not avoid my tendency to read too quickly and along the way to forget about the listener. Your recommendation to use “color words” is excellent, especially since they are likely to evoke emotion not only in our audience but in us, which helps project our voice. It helps us speak with “intention.” One minor suggestion: be careful when turning pages. You will be surprised how that sound is amplified by the speaker phone.

]]> http://katepeters.com/blog/2010/05/18/when-you-must-read-aloud-the-voice-in-business/comment-page-1/#comment-186 Public Speaking Tips and Techniques [2010-06-05] Sat, 05 Jun 2010 04:33:16 +0000 http://katepeters.com/blog/?p=757#comment-186 [...] Peters discusses how to make the most of your voice when reading from a script. Here are three areas to focus on to [...]

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