Speaker Development Training

Your voice is your most impactful communication tool. It must be confident, articulate, and powerful to instantly create positive impressions, command attention, and to influence or persuade others. Conducted in-person, over the telephone, or using a video platform, the Voice Analysis Consultation will be used to assess your voice on multiple levels including your breathing, pace, volume, articulation, enunciation, pitch, intonation, vocal variety, and your use of filler words. A full report including follow-up recommendations for customized training will be provided.

Using the Voso Method for Speaker Development, this multi-session, comprehensive voice and speech coaching program will provide the expert guidance you need to achieve a confident, articulate and powerful voice. The following drills will be incorporated into a customized training program:

• Specialized Stretching Drills: These exercises are necessary to warm up the facial muscles, tongue and lips.
• Breathing Drills: These exercises control voice cadence, decrease breathiness and minimize nervousness.
• Pitch and Intonation Drills: These exercises will expand vocal range, intensity, and voice quality.
• Projection Drills: These exercises will expand the volume, richness and depth of the voice.
• Articulation Drills: These exercises use facial musculature to command precise voice pacing, clarity, and resonance.
• Accent and Regional Dialect Reduction Drills: These additional exercises will be provided as needed.

The Voice Coaching Program may be conducted in-person, over the telephone, or using a video platform. You will be provided with live instruction, written feedback and suggestions for practicing the drills

As a speaker, your audience will make critical decisions about you right away. First, they will immediately measure your credibility and likability. They will also be thinking, “Why should I pay attention?” Equally important, your audience will notice how confident, polished, and competent you are in front of them. Their first impression of you will be nearly impossible to turn around.
The Presentation Analysis Consultation will provide you with crucial information to begin developing yourself as an influential communicator. Using a mock presentation format, your stage presence, communication style, voice range, and non-verbal expressions will be evaluated. Habitual patterns that may compromise your ability to achieve your speaking outcomes will also be identified. A full report including follow-up recommendations for customized training will be provided.

How you move your body will either display confidence or insecurity; polish or lack of preparation; passion or disconnection. Using the Voso Method for Speaker Development, this multi-session coaching program will increase your capacity to convey credibility, increase likability, and connect with your audience. The following drills will be incorporated into a customized training program:

• Entry and Exit Drills: These exercises increase professionalism and sophistication when entering and exiting the speaking space.
• Eye Contact Drills: These exercises ensure balance and complete audience inclusion.
• Stage Presence Drills: These exercises utilize a repertoire of non-verbal body movements that will maximize the impact of specific elements of the message.
• Expression Drills: These exercises minimize unwanted habitual communication patterns and maximize facial expressions, body movements and gestures that heighten the message.
• Visual Aid Drills: These exercises teach how to present complementary visual elements in a polished, engaging and thought provoking manner.

The Presentation Coaching Program may be conducted in-person, over the telephone, or using a video platform. You will be provided with live instruction, written feedback and suggestions for practicing the drills between sessions.

Before any professional or high stakes speaking engagement it is imperative to explore the potential short and long-term impacts of the message.
The Strategic Goals Assessment will lead you through a matrix of important considerations to specifically identify narrow and focused, single-faceted, and strategically intended pathways to the desired outcome.

Influential and inspirational speaking is an audience-centered activity which requires careful consideration of the needs, expectations, beliefs, values, attitudes, and likely opinions of diverse people. The Audience Analysis Consultation is used to determine how to approach, engage and persuade an audience regardless of whether they are aligned or opposed to the message.

Voso Content Design and Construction is a high level signature service which begins with the client’s basic thoughts and ideas, raw materials, or potential content. A thorough discovery and planning process identifies high impact themes and informs the construction of a finished training product built using sophisticated ideas, original graphic design, and advanced adult learning methodologies to be used by the client.
The Voso Professional Training Service may be added which would provide the actual in-person or on-line delivery of the materials produced. The intellectual property and copyright of the materials are explicitly owned by the client.

Voso Professional Speech Writing is a high-level signature service which begins with the client’s basic thoughts and ideas, raw materials, or potential content. A thorough discovery and planning process identifies high impact themes and informs the construction of a finished professional speech built using sophisticated ideas and a mastery of linguistics, with rhythm and cadence designed to move the audience intellectually, emotionally and powerfully. The intellectual property, any original graphic design, and the copyright of the materials are explicitly owned by the client.

Once the speech has been crafted, Voso Speech Delivery Coaching will empower the delivery by developing speaker capacity to maximize audience impact, elevate performance and effectively engage a variety of audiences. Beginning with videotaping a full dress rehearsal of the speech delivery, immediate feedback and suggestions are made on attire, performance, content, and audience impact.
This sought-after Voso Professional Training Service utilizes the proprietary Voso Method for Speaker Development approach of Prepare. Rehearse. Deliver™ to increase the speaker’s ability to convey credibility, increase likability, connect with the audience and reach intended speaking goals.

There is a direct connection between a good introduction and the speaker’s first impression to the audience. Introductions literally set the stage for the speaker. Without a carefully prepared introductory script, the speaker has lost control of how the audience will view them from the beginning. An excellent introduction is one that is crafted to compliment the speaker and the message.
The Voso Multiple-Use Introduction offers a powerful, succinct and strategically-written piece designed to enhance the credibility, trustworthiness, and likability of the speaker. Intended to be used over and over again in countless scenarios, this carefully considered and crafted introduction will inspire and prepare the audience to greet the speaker with immediate applause.