Communication & Accent Reduction Blog

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How to Use Notes When Public Speaking Without Losing Your Audience

Watch any TEDx talk and you’ll see the speaker strolling confidently around the stage, making eye contact with members of the audience and using their arms - their whole bodies even - to add...

Written by Emma Serlin

How to improve your Vocal Charisma

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Written by Emma Serlin

What is ‘good elocution’?

Elocution is often associated with a certain way of speaking- known as 'received pronunciation' which is generally based on educated speech in southern England. However it's a rather dated notion nowadays, as there is...

Written by Emma Serlin

How To Write A Speech – 5 tips

Writing a speech and starting with a blank page can feel pretty challenging. Our Founder and Director, Emma created this brilliant guide using the acronym 'POWER' for creating powerful presentations and speeches called The...

Written by Emma Serlin

Warming up your vocal cords like a professional

The Cambridge Dictionary defines elocution as: "The art of careful public speaking, using clear pronunciation and good breathing to control the voice"   But before we focus on precise articulation and pronunciation, we must first focus on a suitable warm up for our vocal cords -...

Written by Emma Serlin

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Sound Confident – 3 quick tips!

If you've got an important presentation or meeting coming up, you could be worrying about sounding confident - after all, if you don't sound confident, will people take you seriously? The way you deliver...

Written by Emma Serlin

The Impact of Mumbling At Work

According to Voice Empowerment, Mumbling is one of the top 5 annoying vocal habits- and if people are constantly asking you to repeat yourself, you may be a mumbler. Mumbling gives your listeners the...

Written by Emma Serlin

Linguistic convergence and Communication Accommodation Theory

Have you ever been speaking to someone with a different accent, and found yourself changing the way you speak to sound more like them? (more…)

Written by Emma Serlin

That magical combination that we call eloquence

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Written by Emma Serlin

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