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This video is part of our professional development series focused on career paths, networking, resume and cover letter, interviewing, and performing in the organization. This series compliments our business and law lecture series.
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Jason Mance Gordon
The Business Professor
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Okay, continuing on with the series of fit and moving up in the organization, I want
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to talk to you about some tips for speaking or voice techniques that can be beneficial
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to you anytime you need to speak, particularly in front of others or front of a group
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Warm up your vocals just like any other muscle that you're going to use regularly, you need
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to warm it up before jumping in. Really stretching back and loosening up your shoulders can help open up the diaphragm as
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well as practicing the warming up the vocal cords through humming, practicing your tongue
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movements through riddles or just speaking some words or things like that
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Again, it helps with the enunciation, helps with pronunciation as well. But again, showing up ready and from the very beginning communicating clearly again
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shows or demonstrates a level of confidence in the individual. Be aware of that If you like myself and you have an accent if necessary practice neutralizing that accent to be a more common tone
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People make suppositions about you as an individual, about your intelligence and things like that
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or about your values and beliefs, etc. Just based on the accent that you have
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It may be necessary to practice neutralizing that so it's not as strong in a given situation
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Again, having that ability can be a positive skill to have. If you're a loud talker, practice keeping it down
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If you know you have the propensity to get excited and to raise the level of your voice
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practice keeping it down. Practice even demonstrating the same level of excitement
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Perhaps you associate excitement with calming down somewhat. Practice being smooth and not elevating your voice with your excitement level when it's
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not appropriate Interjecting and speaking with others Do not interrupt Do not be rude and jump in un in a conversation
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Breaking into a conversation is an art form to do it well
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To offer your opinion, to interject in a way that's not offensive when you're not
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openly invited. So practice being a good listener. Often times you can use your body motions and movements to demonstrate that you want
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to interject or you want to add something to the conversation. Be careful once you're talking about over talking particularly when others are commandeering
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the conversation and you need to get things out. You may have a tendency to talk too long on a single topic where others are starting to
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be alienated or you go too deep or people get bored with the conversation
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You can see in people's reaction when that begins to happen. So be careful about that
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Again, it tends to happen when individuals get excited about things or when they're repeating
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something that they practiced many times before Like we talked about in the elevator pitch portion to make it conversational people have a tendency to over the delivery of the elevator pitch
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Don't be an over-active listener. Be engaged. Show that you're listening to the conversation, that you're ready to interject at any time
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and that you're following along. When I say over active listener, don't constantly say yep, yep, yep
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That's a common way of over active listening. While you want to show engagement, it can actually be distracting or disturbing to the
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talker for somebody to again over actively listen there. It can turn others off
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Just be aware of that. There's some great voice and speaking techniques or tips that you can use that will help you
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appear to be a professional in your speaking activity in the organization
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