Well hello and welcome to yet another fabulous video. My name is Rima and today I am gonna
talk about some tips and tricks for a confident voice. Now in the course of a conversation,
it's possible to use certain means, certain methods to make your voice sound surer, more
authoritative and confident. So let's look at a few.
Now the first tip is to - Speak more slowly. Now it always happens that when we are nervous
we end up speaking too fast and some of us are naturally fast speakers. Now when you
are speaking too fast it makes you appear not confident, so the important trick is to
speak more slowly and clearly. That way you won't end up making any mistakes in your language
or pronunciations and at the same time you will sound more surer and more confident.
So remember take it slow and clear.
Now the next thing you can do is - Use pauses effectively. Now it always happens that when
you are speaking for a long period of time, if you do not pause the conversation can become
very monotonous. Now that you are already speaking more slowly and clearly, make sure
that you use pauses effectively at various points in the conversation. Using a dramatic
pause or short pause of 2-3 seconds at various points in the conversation can add more weight
to your previous sentence and help you make your point effectively. The best part about
using a pause is that you get time to collect your thoughts in order to continue speaking
further and your audience gets time to digest the points that you have already made. All
and all using pauses is a very wise and an intelligent trick and I suggest you actually
do this at various points to make yourself appear very cool, assured and confident.
The next point is - Avoid telling irrelevant stories. Now it always happens that if you
are nervous about a conversation you might starting talking too much or sharing too much
information. You could start sharing stories or quoting incidence that are completely irrelevant
to the conversation at hand. I suggest you avoid this, keep your conversation absolutely
relevant, to the point, crisp and short. When you do this you will come across as a person
full of authority and confidence and maybe save yourself the embarrassment of having
shared certain irrelevant stories.
Now the next point is to use a deeper, more base voice, confused? don't be. Well let me
share something with you. Research shows that world over the speakers or orators who use
or have a deeper voice or a more base voice are more popular among audiences. So let's
try and use this fact to your advantage. When ever you know you are gonna be having an important
conversation, make sure you use a deeper, a more base voice. When you do this you voice
will naturally come across as more authoritative, more confident and surer, but the important
point is to practice before hand. If you do not practice speaking in a deeper , more base
voice, the way I am trying to speak right now, you can appear unnatural and forced and
that will create a negative impact. So it's important to keep practicing your deeper voice
or your meeting voice in order to make the right impact at the right time.
Now the next thing to do is very very important, it says - maintain a confident posture. Now
whether you are standing or sitting at work it's important to constantly try and improve
your posture. If you are sitting up or standing up make sure you are standing straight with
your shoulders behind and your head held high. Now by doing this what will you achieve? Now
by doing this you will appear more confident at the same time you will also start feeling
more confident and the best part is the effect this will have on your voice. If you actually
maintain better posture, confident posture it will help you to breathe better and when
you breathe better trust me you will sound better, sound more confident and surer.
Now the next thing you can do and you want to do and you must do in order to support
your confident voice is to use your hands wisely and effectively and not the way I am
doing it right now. So it always happens when we are nervous we end up using our hands too
much and every word or every statement we say, we try to support it with the hand gesture.
Now it's very important to use your hand gestures wisely and also only at the points where they
are required, in fact at the points when you are making an impact. Because if you have
uncontrolled wild hand gestures it can make you appear absolutely confused and out of
control and that is definitely something that you want to avoid. So use hand gestures precisely
and absolutely effectively. One way to do this is to actually pre-decide which hand
gesture you are going to use when and which is that impactful statement which you want
to support using an effective hand gesture. By doing so you will definitely appear more
confident and your confidence voice will receive the support of your confident hand gestures.
Now the last point to remember ans I must say it's last but not the least is - To practice,
practice and more practice.. Now there are always going to be those conversations in
your life, those very important conversations which will decide the direction of your work
or your career. Now these conversations could make or break a deal. So it's important to
practice regularly as to how you are going to have these conversations, if you continue
to practice regularly in isolation, it would be easier for you to have these conversations
in front of people. The best way to practice, I have realized is to stand in front of the
mirror look into your own eyes and practice having the entire conversation and play out
the whole scenario. When you are preparing in this manner you will be able to handle
the live conversation with absolute efficient ease and definitely your voice, your words
would sound more confident, surer, coller, effective and more authoritative. So yes I
wish you all the best but please remember there is no perfection without practice.
Well now that I have shared so many tips and tricks with you on how to have more confident
voice, there is absolutely no reason why you shouldn't sound like a more confident you
, like a surer you and a more effective you. Well I really hope that you have really enjoyed
this video, it's time for me Rima to sign out , so I wish you all the best, keep practicing
and before I go I want you to do one more absolutely important thing, I want you to
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