Communicate effectively with your listeners?
Overcome to problem of not seeing the others in the conversation?
Enhance your telephone presentation skills.
Manage a meeting over the phone?
All our work is rooted in theatre. Our coaches are trained and experienced in Voice, Theatre, TV and performance skills. This enables us to create fast-moving sessions using games, exercises for the imagination, voice-work, role play, rehearsal, debate, and performance, insights from psychology, physiology and business.
The course begins with an explanation of the unique dynamics that are at play in a conference call.
Next, because using the phone to heightens the importance of a speaker’s voice, a good proportion of the workshop focusses on the use of Voice. You will learn how to use breathing to punctuate your speech and how to use the three component parts of the Voice, Pitch, Pace and Volume to communicate your message with clarity and brevity.
You will be given strategies that help you to get, and keep the attention of your audience, using, for example, the Rule of Three.
You will learn how to use Imaging to manage the main problem of conference calls – having no visual contact with other speakers.
Lead a meeting over the phone.
In all our courses, you learn by doing. Throughout the day, you will have a chance to use phones to role play meetings many times, using them to practice new communication skills. This, and the feedback you receive, can help you to understand how to get, keep and influence your audience.