The Importance of Knowing How to
Speak Soundly
Knowing how to speak soundly is a primary communication requirement. With 20 years experience in voice training and telecommunications equipment training, Carolyn McKindred is one of a few highly trained and experienced telecommunications consultants in these areas working in Vancouver, BC and throughout Canada.
Tips for Public Speaking
To speak soundly and clearly is the first requirement to being understood. Most people need to communicate in all areas of their lives: for work and personal reasons. Unclear speech, poor voice projection, and speaking in a voice that is too high or too low are all examples of weakness that requires voice training. But these issues can be resolved with the right voice trainer and public speaking coach.
To improve your voice, and your public speaking, you need to access the right type of public speaking activities and strategies: is working with a public speaking coach or voice trainer the best choice? Is speech therapy required to minimize your foreign language accent? Carolyn helps you learn public speaking strategies that increase your audience’s understanding of what you have to say. Speak Soundly Consulting helps you determine which is the best solution to fit your communication challenge and provides you with tips for public speaking that increase your speech effectiveness.
The Importance of Public Speaking
Are you a customer service representative? Or do you manage a group of customer service representatives or a call center team? Do you work with the public in person or on the phone? Do you have contact with people regularly? When you need to communicate to raise awareness, gain understanding and/or achieve acceptance, the first step is to be able to speak soundly and with clarity.
Do You Need Our Voice Coaching Expertise?
Speaking with clarity and soundness is important when you communicate with people professionally or personally. As a voice trainer, we work with businesses and individuals in a variety of ways, giving you tips for public speaking and voice training so you can be the successful communicator you have always wanted to be.
Your Business…
- where staff, from executives to new managers, require coaching to address large groups of people;
- retail or commercial organisations where a voice represents you and your business ineffectively;
- with a need to optimize your telecommunications equipment to communicate your business greeting clearly and receive the necessary programming information by a competent telephone trainer (specializing in Nortel products – Call Pilot, BCM,Norstar);
- Call/Contact Center employees where English is a second language – perhaps working in call centers serving North America (may be established locally or in other countries) and you discover that your business image is being compromised;
- Airlines and tourism organisations to assist your announcers, guides, and tourism officials.
You…
- suddenly find yourself speaking publicly as a result of a change in life circumstances;
- have entered or are returning to the business world or in the midst of a career change and need to ensure you put your ‘best voice forward’;
- English is your second language and you want to improve your confidence in your communication skills by being better understood;
- have a disability and need to develop better personal confidence, particularly in your communication skills;
- simply need to build your personal confidence and self esteem by developing a better speaking voice and improved communication skills;