Adding Energy

Do you feel like your presentations might be lacking in energy, but because you’re “in your head,” you can’t be sure? In today’s post, Pete offers a particular direction you can point your attention in that can help you recognize exactly when an energy dip occurs, and what you can do about it in the moment.

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there is something called vocal fry that I think started getting talked about maybe 10 or 15 years ago um what it is is it’s a slowing of the speaking voice in such a way that your voice starts to kind of crack a little bit it shows up a lot in some people speaking style generally at the end of sentences and I was working with a person today who was asking about her energy level and I was noticing today that I was hearing a lot of vocal fry from her now vocal fry has been somewhat controversial over the years some people have said oh it just drives me crazy and people shouldn’t do it other people have said well there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with it and in fact some people have said that it seems to add authority to their voice especially women who think that their voice sounds somewhat girly or immature they believe that they actually get more respect when they lower their register and it starts to fry a little bit so I’m not going to pass any judgment on it but as I worked with this Cent today I recognized a correlation for her between low energy and vocal fry what was happening for her was she was presenting and her voice was cracking quite a bit throughout the the presentation and she was pretty low energy so when she brought up the question of energy and increasing her energy first of all I gave her permission to be energy because she was struggling from kind of a lack of sleep and a busy schedule but once I pointed out the vocal fry she presented and she had more energy because she was focusing on keeping her voice contiguous without cracking so this might be something that you want to pay attention to if you recognize that you want your Pres presentations to have more energy in them see if you can sustain the energy in your voice so that it’s not cracking it’s not frying at all it’s in a certain register and a certain continuity so that it comes across in a smoother way that communicates your energy because you actually are putting more energy into it give that a shot and let us know how it works for you

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