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Public Speaking Coaching for Business Executives

If a large part of your professional role involves addressing an audience of any size - be it at a board meeting, overseeing or presenting a pitch to a client, engaging with your team at staff meetings or even delivering a potentially career enhancing keynote speech at a conference - then you will already have a pretty clear understanding of how important it is to have full mastery over your public speaking skills!

 

You no doubt also recognise the vital ambassadorial role played by each member of your staff and the formidable impression created by any company that can be confident that each and every one of its staff is able to make a positive vocal impact when representing the company. Every MD or CEO will have a strong awareness of how the communication skills of one can reflect the efficacy of the whole.

 

However, what if you yourself - sitting as you do at the head of a thriving business - are not entirely confident of your own abilities to make an engaging and positive first impression or to deliver a persuasive and powerful speech? Well, you are not alone. Such insecurities in those at the very top of their organisation - or those aspiring to be there - are far more common than you may think. The problem is: what can you do about it? 

  

One-to-one voice coaching with a friendly, experienced and professionally sensitive voice coach - one who takes the time to listen carefully to what you want to achieve and puts care and thought into how best to achieve it - is the most effective way to transform your vocal impact skills.

 

You can explore and develop your speaking voice, take ownership of a whole range of impressive vocal techniques, transform your presentation skills, become a powerful, accomplished, effective public speaker and begin to fully enjoy the process of delivering a speech, maybe for the first time!

 

This is the kind of detailed, advanced voice work that actors, singers, and other performers take for granted as part of their initial training. How strange, then, that those who also use their voice on a daily basis in the workplace are unlikely to have had access to such training.

Voice coach Gillian McAuley has been working with senior executives to improve their public speaking skills for over fifteen years. From very beginning she recognised four important factors that strongly influence the way in which she conducts her work:

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That professionals at the very highest levels of corporate achievement sometimes suffer from crippling levels of anxiety and self-doubt when faced with the task of addressing an audience. They are unlikey to share these fears with colleagues, friends or even loved ones and so may never get the chance to explore the possibility that these fears are common and can be "cured."

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That even the most confident public speakers who truly enjoy the experience may still feel that they are not making the most of their abilities as a result of having experienced some specific voice-related issues that they don't know how to address.

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For those providing voice coaching for public speakers, it is simply not enough to offer only the kind of voice training that they themselves received as actors. Executives appreciate the importance of working with a voice coach who knows how to connect with an audience and many will express the desire simply to"speak like an actor." However, most will have vocal aspirations, issues and goals far more complex than this.

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Most standard voice coaching exercises / vocal warm-up routines are only effective insofar as the coach knows how and when to use them, is sensitive to the fact that the client may not immediately feel comfortable with "performing" such unfamiliar vocal pyrotechnics, ensures that the client knows exactly why an exercise is being employed and gives a full explanation of the desired end result.

 

          

Voice coach Gillian McAuley is extremely sensitive to the very specific needs of those she helps. She has always endeavoured NOT to take the approach of simply taking actors' vocal exercises - or the voice coaching techniques one would use with a drama student - and "making them fit" the needs of her clients, irrespective of their goals. She is fully committed to this client-centred philosophy and its powerful, effective "real world" results. She has developed this highly dedicated style so as not to compromise the detailed nature of voice work nor the astounding efficacy of the results. 

 

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 Please contact Gillian McAuley for further information or to discuss your training needs.

Telephone: 07879 402 409                        Email: Gillian@VoiceMattersCoaching.com