Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
AVAILABLE HERE
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Persuasive power of voice
One of my clients came in yesterday with such a great story of successfully using what we'd been working on, I asked her permission to share it with you.
Over a period of time we had been refining her natural upright poise, reducing tensions and stress. We have also worked on her voice as she'd been told that her presence and presentations in business meetings were not sufficiently persuasive.
This lady has been travelling over the last three days in three countries and had twelve meetings in several cities. These meetings were with top level management and influencing major financial decisions. She wasn't the only woman there but from what she said, it sounded as though she was.
Inevitably in meetings, no matter at what level, there is a tendency for people to talk over others, to chip in, interrupt, challenge, ignore and generally each person has a perspective they want to get across. Sadly it is still the case that women are not given equal respect in such situations and are frequently interrupted. My client told me that these meetings were no different and when the women spoke they were all interrupted as most of the men were too.
But my client had a different experience. Now it must be remembered that for this lady, her speaking voice had certainly not been her strength. She had been long criticised for weak performance during presentations. But this was not the case now.
When she spoke they all shut up. She came to these meetings in a state of calm neutrality. She was centred and balanced. When my client spoke, she did so from a position of calm strength. She spoke slowly and without rushing. She let her words linger and have weight. She let her self pause and give 'space' to her message. She spoke with resonance, with inflection of tone and pitch to vary and interest her listeners. She spoke with clarity and good articulation. She did not speak loudly but she had gravitas.
They all listened. Not once in all her interactions in twelve meetings was she interrupted. Not once did she feel that she had lost her audience. In fact she felt that she had them completely... every time.
Her powerful, calm, well paced presentation carried gravitas that none of the others in the meeting had. She had 'voice' as she called it; almost as though it was her tool. And she used it. She felt that she had status that was higher than her actual level. If she keeps this up she'll get an even higher company position to match her growing personal stature.
I wanted to share this with you.
A good voice makes you sexy, makes others listen and earns money.
