While everyone recognizes a nasal voice in which excessive sound is traveling through the nose while speaking, many are unaware of the opposite extreme known as denasality.  When you are congested or if you suffer from allergies, often the result is a voice in which little or no sound is able to be carried through the nasal passages because they are inflamed and swollen.

Recently I spoke to a young man named Jason whose voice exhibited both characteristics. In addition, the...

Did you know that your face and body talk? What are those two elements of your image saying about you when you deliver a speech or presentation? No matter how great your words, if your facial expression and body language are saying one thing but your voice is saying another, then you are sending a confusing or even possibly the wrong message.

Part of that which makes for dynamic public speaking is being expressive when you speak. (In truth, being expressive adds value in all...

In my last article I discussed the importance of using your face to express emotion in public speaking. In addition to your facial expression, though, is the language of your body because the latter talks as well during your presentation. The question is, ‘what is it saying?' Standing perfectly still, rigid, or immobile during a presentation (or even a speech where you are somewhat limited by the presence of a lectern) says one thing to your audience. That you are most...

One of the most frequent questions I hear is how do I tell my spouse, my friend, or a colleague that they need to improve their speaking voice? This really is a tough issue because if you approach someone advising them that their speaking voice needs some work, they are probably going to be offended.

If we had the ability to hear ourselves the way everyone else does, this would not be an issue. Unfortunately, how we sound to the outside world is not how we sound inside our head...

A problem that affects a surprising number of people is that of speaking too softly. If you are not able to be heard, then much is being lost in your life because your communication skills are not being recognized. In short, you are not effective – either professionally or personally. On the other hand, I am not recommending that you speak too loudly!

The difficulty for those who are soft-spoken is understanding how much volume is proper or is needed in any given...

The fear of speaking in public isn't an unusual one. It is the one phobia that many of us will experience once in our lives, and too few of us work to overcome. What if I told you that ridding yourself of that fear is not as difficult as you may thought?

In this article, I will provide you with 6 ways on how to cure and overcome the fear of public speaking for good! At the very least these methods will help you reduce your anxiety and help to make that next public speech...

Influence and Persuasion - The Power of Subconscious Communication

As psychologists further explore the still largely unknown workings of the mind, more is learned about subconscious thinking and how it critically impacts on our attempts to influence others.

How do we experience subconscious thinking?

We experience subconscious thought in many ways. We wake from sleep to find clarity over problem issues. We have "Eureka" moments when unresolved...

Late last night I received an email from my friend Pete the Printer, who resides in Ohio, where they have a bit of an unemployment problem. Now Pete has a job, he's been running one business or another for decades, and if you took everything away from him today, he'd be back in business tomorrow, because you don't ever count Pete the Printer out.

Now one of the reasons I like Pete is that he can spot a fake at a hundred paces, and he sniffed out Obama way before the good folks in...

We all have to know that life keeps on going on and is coming with many good chance for all of us but in the right timing.TO succeed you have to be full of hope.

There are many things in this life that are under our control, so we have to dinstinguish well between things and to know that some of our dreams are real dreams as the word dream sounds, this means that we can do nothing to live them as real. In my opinion, 90% of dreams can be converted to real by our concern. From my...