Body language and voice

Benefits

Words make up the content – but body language and voice determine the impact. Anyone who wants to appear present, persuade and inspire needs both in harmony.

In our workshop “Body Language and Voice” your employees learn how to radiate self-confidence through posture, gesture and voice, reinforce their messages, and come across as confident in every situation. Practical, interactive and full of aha moments – for more presence and impact in performance and everyday life.

They also learn how to use their voice and speech consciously. What gesture and gaze have to do with voice, and how to radiate what matters to them. They also practise in front of the camera. Our feedback is concrete and immediately actionable.

Objectives

Possible goals of your company workshop could include:

Participants

• can consciously perceive and reflect on their own impact
• can bring body language and voice into harmony with the content
• recognise how inner mood relates to voice and body language
• can perceive and interpret others' nonverbal signals better

Content

• What does it mean to have a good impact?
• What impact has to do with personality
• How the nonverbal, paraverbal and verbal levels of communication interact
• Experiencing breathing as the foundation of speaking
• The connection between voice and mood
• Using your voice consciously: volume, melody, pace, pauses
• Preparing your speech tools for a presentation
• In the here and now: listening to yourself while speaking
• Presence in the room: posture, stance, occupying space
• The face speaks too: using facial expressions consciously
• Maintaining contact: using eye contact purposefully
• Scoring points with gestures: reinforcing what is said nonverbally
• Making emotions audible and visible: speaking so that people believe you
• Reading and interpreting body language: understanding the other person's signals
• Exercises against nervousness and for a successful outcome