Perform your role - Get your voice in control!
Today we had a very different session on `Voice` as part of PCS (Personal Communication Skills) and I invite you to reflect on the following statements:
“We are all performers, whether Actors or Managing Directors!” and “There is no business without show business!”
Profound statements, I would say. These were spoken by Diana Theodores, Visiting Lecturer at Cranfield and Fellow at the renowned Dartington College of Arts, South Devon. She is a choreographer and theatre director and has staged many productions at the Abbey Theatre and a number of others. Her consulting practice proposes that the creative processes at work in the arts are transferable, and beneficial, to the world of business.
Also present was Josie Sutciffe, another Visiting Lecturer at Cranfield and Business Fellow at Dartington. She too, leads workshops with union negotiators and managers in collaboration & co-operation techniques, team building, facilitating change and presentation skills.
In the first half of the workshop they shared the conceptual framework on communication skills and the role of our voice. For the first time in my life, I felt conscious of “voice” in my speech. They went on to explain how voice is so critical to the impact that a person can make. But this was the first time I was really focusing on MY VOICE.
Diana and Josie gave us a number of exercises to do – a few might consider these quite strange, though! For example, we had to blow up a balloon and feel our breath come out of it. For some it was great fun, but for a few, it was kind of awkward to begin with. The child in a few of us was awakened too with all of the balloons around, but the serious end result was that we were all more aware of the influence of our voice and what we needed to do to enhance its positive impact.
This session was an introductory session to be followed up by one on one voice tutorials in the next few days. As I walked out of the lecture room, all I could say was: “What a surprise!”
At the end of the day, this is what Diana and Josie had to say: “Your voice is a gift, cherish it, look after it, nurture it.”
“We are all performers, whether Actors or Managing Directors!” and “There is no business without show business!”
Profound statements, I would say. These were spoken by Diana Theodores, Visiting Lecturer at Cranfield and Fellow at the renowned Dartington College of Arts, South Devon. She is a choreographer and theatre director and has staged many productions at the Abbey Theatre and a number of others. Her consulting practice proposes that the creative processes at work in the arts are transferable, and beneficial, to the world of business.
Also present was Josie Sutciffe, another Visiting Lecturer at Cranfield and Business Fellow at Dartington. She too, leads workshops with union negotiators and managers in collaboration & co-operation techniques, team building, facilitating change and presentation skills.
In the first half of the workshop they shared the conceptual framework on communication skills and the role of our voice. For the first time in my life, I felt conscious of “voice” in my speech. They went on to explain how voice is so critical to the impact that a person can make. But this was the first time I was really focusing on MY VOICE.
Diana and Josie gave us a number of exercises to do – a few might consider these quite strange, though! For example, we had to blow up a balloon and feel our breath come out of it. For some it was great fun, but for a few, it was kind of awkward to begin with. The child in a few of us was awakened too with all of the balloons around, but the serious end result was that we were all more aware of the influence of our voice and what we needed to do to enhance its positive impact.
This session was an introductory session to be followed up by one on one voice tutorials in the next few days. As I walked out of the lecture room, all I could say was: “What a surprise!”
At the end of the day, this is what Diana and Josie had to say: “Your voice is a gift, cherish it, look after it, nurture it.”
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