In How to Consciously Engage, Inspire, Connect, and Lead: Part 2, we discussed the following principles: Acting versus reacting models healthy behavior to those you lead Identifying your anxiety-provoking thoughts can create authentic confidence. Feeling the fear and doing it anyway is essential. Acting in manageable steps toward your goal creates success. Identify Feelings of […]

In Accent Reduction: Understanding how a Trainer Benefits the Student: Part 1, you learned that the benefits of working with an accent trainer include enhanced comprehensiveness and speed of progress for maximal gains. Specifically, the accent trainer actively participates in your programming for individualizing your training based on your accent analysis. This is a critical […]

Summary from Part 1 In How to Consciously Engage, Inspire, Connect, and Lead: Part 1, we discussed the following principles: When you’re happy and confident, you give others around you the opportunity to do the same. You can affect people with your communication skills in one-to-one situations, small groups, and large groups. Negative unconscious thoughts […]

How to Lead Consciously Everyone leads someone.  Public speakers lead.  To be an effective public speaker, to be an effective leader, you need to engage, inspire, and connect with those you are leading. In this and the next 3 articles we discuss strategies for making conscious decisions on how to shape your thoughts, feelings and […]

Greater Success Understanding how an accent coach, trainer, teacher, or instructor benefits you as a student can help you make the choice to hire an accent trainer.  The benefits of working with an accent instructor can mean the difference between reducing your accent a little or a lot.  It can mean the difference between tearing […]

People who are new to public speaking commonly ask 3 questions.  They want to overcome their anxiety.  They want specific techniques to use. Perhaps you’ve prepared the valuable information for your presentation.  You feel confident about the content you’ll be sharing.  Maybe you’re giving a workshop.  You’re knowledgeable, you’re excited. Yet you’re worried that your delivery will diminish your credibility.  […]

One effective accent modification technique involves using the voice to place accurate stress when using two-word and three-word proper nouns in speech. Proper nouns, according to Marjorie Whittaker and Lynda Katz-Wilner, of ESL Rules, are “geographic locations such as continents, countries, states, cities, islands, bodies of water, parks, roadways, mountains, tourist attractions, museums, hospitals, airlines […]

You’ve prepared the valuable information for your presentation.  You’re confident about the content you’ll be sharing.  Perhaps you’re giving a workshop.  It’s the first time you’re giving this presentation.  You’re knowledgeable and excited about the material yet you’re worried that your delivery will negatively affect your credibility.  Your mind races with one of the three […]

One accent modification technique that helps speakers of English as a second or other language is consonant blend pronunciation.  Marjorie Feinstein-Whittaker & Lynda Katz-Wilner, authors of  Rules for Using Linguistic Elements of Speech: A Resource and Interactive Workbook, provide information for mastering pronunciation of R blends.  Consonant blends occur at the beginning, middle, and end […]

You’ve prepared the valuable information for your presentation.  You’re confident about the content you’ll be sharing.  Perhaps you’re giving a workshop.  It’s the first time you’re giving this presentation.  You’re knowledgeable and excited about the material yet you’re worried that your delivery will negatively affect your credibility.  Your mind races with one of the three […]