How to speak so that people want to listen | Julian Treasure 

7 bad habits to get rid of (as they don’t bring anything to the table):

1. Gossip
2. Judging
3. Negativity
4. Complaining
5. Making excuses
6. Embroidery / exaggeration
7. Dogmatism – the confusion of facts and opinions

The HAIL model:

• Honesty – being true and clear
• Authenticity – being yourself
• Integrity – doing what you say
• Love – wishing people well

The 6 tools to modulate your voice:

• register: we tend to vote for politicians with lower registers, when the voice comes from the chest, as we associate depth with power and authority
• timbre: we prefer voices which are rich, warm and smooth
• prosody: the antithesis of monotonic or repetitive voice
• pace: slow to emphasize, and use silence from time to time
• pitch:
• volume: to make people pay attention, lower the volume; to broadcast, go loud

How to warm-up your voice prior to an important talk:

1. Arms up, deep breathe in, big sigh
2. Repeat a simple sound from the tip of your lips – Bo bo bo bo
3. Make your lips tremble – as if imitating a horse as a kid
4. Repeat in an exaggerated manner – La la la la
5.  Roll a very long “R”
6. Go up and down from low “oom” to high “wee” several times

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