Vocal Work

Vocal work is an area where so little of us know “how we come across”

 

When we do hear ourselves, on a video or other device, we perhaps don’t like what we hear

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This is normal

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So how can one objectively tell what one’s voice is really like?

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Well, of course one can’t, not objectively anyway

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Many of the clients I meet have had some sort of feedback to how they come across vocally. That’s how they know about it. They have been told by their partner, or their boss or a work colleague

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The most famous, in recent memory, of a person who had some vocal work was the late Margaret Thatcher.

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If you watch/hear her voice, before she became Prime Minister and then 5 years later, her voice is very very different. After her vocal work some would say she came across a lot more trustworthy and caring. Two qualities all Prime Ministers would dearly love to have

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I suspect Theresa May is having some coaching as we speak

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We do tend to be influenced by how others speak so it is important that we get it right

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Intonation, resonance, support, breathing, dialect, articulation - are just some of the areas that affect how we speak. All of us favour some more than others, some are more empathetic than others to how we communicate

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Fact - if you have a Geordie accent you are much more likely to get a job in a call centre than a person from Birmingham …research shows this to be true

We all have preferences but we also all have choices

 

Vocal work can give you those choices