Be True To Your Voice

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Your voice says everything about you. It is the reliable, quintessential you. For countless official causes, people like to adjust and progress their voice. This is completely natural, especially if you feel that your voice could be holding back your career prospects.

However, there is one main predicament with vocal development and that is when individuals decide that they will transform their voice to sound like their favourite film star or newsreader or friend from their local speakers club. They lose their authenticity and credibility. My point here is that you must be genuine to your voice, persona and character. Always do a first rate impression of yourself rather than be a second rate impersonation of somebody else. Everybody is unique and they must not pretend to be something or somebody they are not.
many years ago I joined my local speakers club and it was a fantastic experience to receive objective comment in such a compassionate and quality setting. I remember there was a chap their called Tony and he had one of those voices that you would die for. I was very taken by this chap's approach of speech and I inadvertently started trying to talk like him. I didn't realise how bad this had become until I entered a speech contest, didn't do very well, and some of the informal advice I received after the contest was to say the least, blunt! One person even asked me why I was mucking about and trying to be Mike the 2nd, when Vince the 1st was perfectly up to standard anywhere.

A thought that had held me back was that this chap Tony was so various years in advance of me in terms of performance, experience and delivery that I would never be able to peg him back. How wrong I was.

By this time, I had become rather despondent. No success in contests and then my boss asked me to do a big presentation at short notice. I reacted rather badly to this request at first, but soon realised that it would hold me back at work if I didn't bite the bullet and take up the challenge. I then had one of those 'light bulb' moments. I rapidly realised that it wasn't about trying to be like Bill to wow the audience for the future, it was very much a case of being the best achievable Vince for tomorrow's big presentation. I liked the statement that Vince the 1st was perfectly acceptable anywhere and that comment gave me an huge boost of confidence.

Actually, it was getting a bit awkward family wise too. I had recently attended my mother's 70th birthday and my three brothers were having a laugh at the expense of my newly acquired voice tone.

Once I changed my mind set and returned to the reliable Vincent Stevenson, I never looked back. Always be yourself. Never be a imposter.

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The College of Public Speaking offers a variety of personal development courses and workshops to deliver personal impact. Based in London, England hundreds of students each year benefit from our diverse sessions. For more information on voice coaching, elocution and accent softening and reduction, please visit ==> www.collegeofpublicspeaking.co.uk/Voice_Coaching.html or www.collegeofpublicspeaking.co.uk/Handling_Nerves.html

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