To Be a Leader, Talk Like One
The five essentials you should use when speaking in business situations -- straight from the mouth of a pro. Listen and learn
By Carmine Gallo
One of the qualities that all great speakers have is the ability to electrify their listeners simply by the way they use their voices. They have an engaging vocal quality -- a quality that you can master for your own professional business communications. In this audio slide show, I've outlined what I consider the five key qualities of dynamic vocal delivery. As examples, I've chosen excerpts from John F. Kennedy's inspirational "Man on the Moon" speech delivered at Rice University in September, 1962. I read each excerpt two different ways, so that you can hear the difference between static vocal delivery and dynamic vocal delivery.
Excerpt: "We meet at a college noted for knowledge, in a city noted for progress, in a state noted for strength, and we stand in need of all three, for we meet in an hour of change and challenge, in a decade of hope and fear, in an age of both knowledge and ignorance. The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds."
