Be an outstanding communicator who achieves goals

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve”
– Napoleon Hill, “Think and Grow Rich”

Your ability to communicate with confidence, clarity, energy, and persuasiveness, in every conversational situation, is directly related to your success, no matter your field or profession.

I always ask my clients during their executive voice training program, “Why do you want to be successful?” Many say they want enough money to have the freedom to do whatever they want in life.

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• Help their children succeed
• Be self-employed
• Work less and “play” more
• Spend more time with the family
• Help other people to live better and
• Travel more

There are several steps to ensure that one achieves goals.

Step One: Identify your personal reason for being successful in life.

Step Two: Write an incredibly detailed picture of what your success looks like. Get into the details. For example, if you want to travel more, how many days a year? Where do you want to go? What does it take to give you the time and money?

Step Three: Define the role that outstanding communication will play in achieving your goals. In most professions, your ability to communicate is the number one differentiator.

John was a young marketing manager at a leading national retail store whose vision for success was to open his own unique retail chain. He clearly defined the vision of him, yet he was a soft-spoken man who sounded shy and monotonous. He told me, “I need to sound confident, authoritative, powerful and enthusiastic.”

With the Executive Speaking Skills program from Voice Power Studios, John gained control of his voice; he learned to speak in a deep voice, well projected, articulated, expressive and easy to listen to. He gained the confidence to become an outstanding communicator in every business interaction: meetings, presentations, negotiations, and stakeholder interactions on his way to achieving his goal.

Try these tips to improve your voice.
• Slow down your speaking rate to 150 words per minute by breathing between thoughts and saying the ends of your words. It takes time to do this and therefore it will slow you down.
• Speak clearly. Say the whole word without cutting off the end. Murmuring and running the words together is a direct result of speaking too fast. If they don’t understand you, it’s hard to persuade your listener to buy.
• Never discard the last word of your thought. The last word is the most important word and if your listener doesn’t hear it clearly, your thought loses its impact and you risk losing their attention.

Wake up your voice daily:
• Lip roller: Take a deep breath and exhale forcefully with your lips closed, which will cause your lips to move or move.
• Resonator buzz: mAHmAHmAHmAHmAHm. Alternate between the (m)hum and the vowel. Then add the other vowels until you can do the following in one breath with the resonance always on the lips: mEEmEHmAHmOHmOO.

Sandra McKnight is an internationally renowned keynote speaker and executive speech and voice coach with over 30 years of private and cross-cultural coaching and coaching in executive voice training, accent reduction, speech, voice, public speaking and presentation skills. Her clients include CEOs, lawyers, executives, entrepreneurs, business owners, sales professionals, and companies such as Northrop Grumman, Nestle, Intel, Microsoft, DDI World, Inc., IBM, and Ernst and Young (Hong Kong). .