Tired of Not Being Heard?
There comes a time in life when you need to be taken seriously and command attention.Try the following three-step power speaking technique the next time you need to get across something important. By using this power speaking technique, you can learn to control your tone of voice so only the emotions you want come through.
This technique will help you speak out and be heard, and express yourself with power and authority. This will help even if you feel a little shy or intimidated.
Actors, orators, executives, and politicians have been using these techniques for centuries. Now you can learn the power of these techniques too.
Here’s the basic idea to get you started:
You can’t communicate effectively without emotion. To express yourself fully and powerfully, you need to access the proper emotional state. You do this by giving yourself cues, which are auditory (heard), kinesthetic (felt), and visual (seen).
1. A Key word- auditory cue
2. A Mental image- visual cue
3. Body language- kinesthetic cue
Select your auditory cue. Using a single word, name the over-riding “feeling” you’d like to convey in your presentation. For an authoritative tone of voice choose a short, dynamic, active word such as: “power,” “strong,” “win,” “go,” or “kill”. Now say this word aloud over and over with psychotic like enthusiasm!
Select your visual cue. As you say your authoritative key word out loud, a movie will begin to ‘play’ in your mind. Keep saying your key word over and over, making the image nice and clear and bright. For an authoritative tone of voice, picture yourself as an executive, a coach, a military officer, or some other authoratative figure. Find the image that works for you. Be sure to notice all the cinematic details, the colors, the set design, the supporting cast. Strength comes from the details.
Select your kinesthetic cue. The easiest and fastest way to change the sound of your voice is to change your physiology. You need to make your body language BIG. To sound more authoritative, stand up straight! Erect posture. Strong hand gestures. Firm gaze, even when you are on the phone. In fact, when speaking on the phone, don’t let your eyes wander. If you are alone in the room, fix your gaze on the eyes of a person in a photograph or magazine. This technique may sound strange at first, but try it. It really works!
Use these “power speaking” techniques and you will be absolutely amazed at the rapid changes your new confidence levels will have on your life.
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