Lauren Roberts
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How to Use Notes When Public Speaking Without Losing Your Audience
Watch any TEDx talk and you’ll see the speaker strolling confidently around the stage, making eye contact with members of the audience and using their arms - their whole bodies even - to add emphasis...
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How to improve your Vocal Charisma
Great Vocal Charisma can really be the difference that can help you ace that talk or presentation or job interview. Being a powerful communicator is right at the top of the list for the boxes to tick...
What is 'good elocution'?
Elocution is often associated with a certain way of speaking- known as 'received pronunciation' which is generally based on educated speech in southern England. However it's a rather dated notion...
How To Write A Speech - 5 tips
Writing a speech and starting with a blank page can feel pretty challenging. Our Founder and Director, Emma created this brilliant guide using the acronym 'POWER' for creating powerful presentations...
Warming up your vocal cords like a professional
The Cambridge Dictionary defines elocution as: "The art of careful public speaking, using clear pronunciation and good breathing to control the voice" But before we focus on precise articulation and...
Sound Confident - 3 quick tips!
If you've got an important presentation or meeting coming up, you could be worrying about sounding confident - after all, if you don't sound confident, will people take you seriously? The way you...
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Linguistic convergence and Communication Accommodation Theory
Have you ever been speaking to someone with a different accent, and found yourself changing the way you speak to sound more like them?
That magical combination that we call eloquence
Have you ever listened to a brilliant speaker and felt captivated by the music of their speech, the poetry of their words and the resonance of their voice? Then they probably have that magical...
What we DON'T do...
We often talk about what we DO do, so we thought we'd start this post a bit differently and share specifically what we DON'T do: We don’t give sales training. We don’t give off the shelf presentation...
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TED Talks To Watch: 7 Secrets Of The Greatest Speakers In History
Of all the speeches you’ve heard in your life, which one sticks out to you the most? Does Martin Luther King spring to mind? Winston Churchill? Or more recently, perhaps Greta Thunberg or Malala...