Public speaking: the value of vocal coaching

How can you improve your public speaking skills? This was the theme of the workshop led by Pierre Derycke, vocal coach for public speaking, during the Talentis Campus on January 13, 2020. On this occasion, around fifty Talentis professional coaches gathered for a day of sharing and workshops around themes such as the management of burnout, coaching in an intercultural environment or even audacity. This annual event is a key moment for Talentis because it allows us to take stock of the past year, set the course on the major challenges to come, and mobilize everyone's energies.

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What is a vocal coach?

My job is to make the coachee understand his vocal potential, which is very often underexploited, but also to align his non-verbal, paraverbal communication with his verbal communication.

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Working on your voice: what are the advantages to improve your public speaking skills?

There are a lot of personal benefits to working on your voice. Indeed, working on your voice means working on a form of well-being and that creates pleasure.It is also important to understand that, working on your voice, will allow you to have a much stronger, much more powerful expression. It also allows you to open up perfectly to others by making yourself well understood.

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How do you work on your voice?

This involves purely physical exercises such as postural exercises, phonation exercises, etc... There are also more concrete exercises to successfully get the person out of their vocal habits to go a little further.

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How does working on public speaking fit into a professional coaching approach?

The voice coach will have a direct impact on oral expression.We know very well that the company is managed, governed through meetings and speeches, which are strong moments.Training to speak well in public is all the more an issue as we are very little or very poorly aware of these techniques today in schools. Namely, learn to use your body as a support to succeed in this public speaking exercise.

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What is the difficulty most often encountered by your coachees during public speaking coaching?

The general symptom is the prevalence of the cerebral over the physical. In other words, the person is no longer what they say but thinks beforehand or thinks of something else. One of the objectives of public speaking coaching is precisely to succeed in putting the person back in the present moment, on what they are expressing.

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Meeting the Talentis community of professional coaches: what does it mean to you?

It allows me to meet people who do much the same thing as me but in a slightly different way. This provides an opportunity to discuss similar topics by mutually enriching each other from the diversity of practices to manage problems that are often similar.

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‍At Talentis, we have been supporting all talents since 2003 in the development of their managerial and leadership skills. We are committed to constantly offering the most efficient professional coaching support that is best suited to your business. This is the reason why we work daily alongside experts in speech, neuroscience, or even Mindfulness, to enrich our coaching practices with innovative theoretical fields. Do not hesitate to contact us directly so that we can build with you the most relevant and effective professional coaching programs for all your talents!

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