“An Audience is a Direct MIRROR to How You Yourself Are Feeling: Relax and your Audience will too…”

Posted by Chris Grimes on Feb 8, 2012
in 1:1 Coaching, Communication Skills, Interpersonal Skills, Personal Brand, Personal Impact, Presentation Skills We often quote the title of this Blog post directly in our Presentation Skills or Personal Impact Coaching sessions here at Working Voices. And it is absolutely true: “Relax and your audience will too…” They are in fact a direct mirror to how you yourself are feeling. And you can “infect them” (as it is so called) with your MOOD – either positively or...
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The Power of Disclosure when Presenting: Remember to be yourself and LET US IN !

Posted by Chris Grimes on Dec 14, 2011
in 1:1 Coaching, Communication Skills, Emotional Intelligence, Interpersonal Skills, Personal Impact, Presentation Skills On our Intermediate & Advanced Presentation Skills Courses here at Working Voices, the assumption for our starting point for these courses, is that participants are fundamentally much more experienced i.e that they are already presenting regularly, so that they can therefore undertake the training at a more ‘advanced’ level. In addition when we are training on presenting, we are...
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On a Rusty Old Train to Nowhere – Aboard the Sloppy Articulation Express!

Posted by Chris Grimes on Nov 9, 2011
in 1:1 Coaching, Personal Brand, Personal Impact, Presentation Skills, Voice Coaching I appreciate that I might need to get out more – but in my defence I was out at the time – but I couldn’t help noticing on my train journey home recently, that a Train Announcer had what can only be described as very lazy or sloppy articulation. His announcements were just as vague after each and every stop – his tongue sounding like it was slipping around on ice –...
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“Fox in Socks in Blogs!” Easy Tiger – Slow Down!

Posted by Chris Grimes on Oct 7, 2011
in 1:1 Coaching, Communication Skills, Personal Impact, Presentation Skills, Speakers for Events, Voice Coaching “Fox in Socks our game is done sir! Thank you for a lot of fun sir!” A Conference clip of amazing ‘articulatory dexterity’ (!) in which a student called Xin Yan, speed reads – but still manages to succesfully wrap her tongue around it all nevertheless – “Fox in Socks” by Dr Seuss. And to help us all keep up with what she’s actually rattling...
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Working Voices Coaching Taken to New Heights (erm, to the top of the Cathedral in Milan!)

Posted by Chris Grimes on Jun 29, 2011
in 1:1 Coaching, Communication Skills Yes – “Coaching taken to new heights!” Thanks to Working Voices’ Trainer Tom Cassidy for that one! (all his own work and he’s here all week!) From left to right: Tom Cassidy, Chris Grimes, Paul Mabberley & Paul Hill. Photo by Genevieve Grant. And a perpendicular Tom Cassidy there at the top of the Duomo. How does he do that?! (Suckers on his...
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