Volume

Speak Up … I Can’t Hear You!

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An easy way to make your workplace presentation more interesting is simply to speak louder. Really. That’s all it takes to become a more engaging presenter. Speaking up can significantly impact your audience’s attention, interest in your message … and positive impression of you, the messenger.

Loud is Good

In our culture, we tend to interpret a soft-spoken voice as coming from a person lacking confidence or credibility. Not good reactions for your audience to have about you. Even on a microphone, the soft-spoken voice delivers that weak impression loud and clear. It doesn’t matter if these reactions are valid – remember that Perception is Reality. If you sound weak to the audience – you are.

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Speak Up – Make Your Voice Sizzle!

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(We spent all last year answering the question, ‘Does Your Presentation Suck?’ Each month provided details on a specific aspect of your presentations content to help you decide how much it sucked and what to do about it.) Reader reaction was quite positive and appreciative. We heard from people who routinely deliver presentations at work, support … Read more

Speak Up!

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(Last month’s lead article simply listed those physical and vocal delivery skills that, properly used, can mask symptoms of Presentation Anxiety while projecting an image of confidence, credibility ad competence. Now, for the next six months, we’ll take a deeper dive with each of those PA-masking skills you can add to your workplace presenter tool kits. So, let’ start with increasing your volume.)

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