Voice Tip
It's World Smile Day today - Smile and the whole world smiles with you! Smiling not only shows others that you are feeling happy, it also helps your voice sound great too!
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Blog Post
What a voice nightmare! This is not something you want to happen to you if you have an important speech to make. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41503413
There are things you can do pre-speech to help if you do have a tickly cold, but not much you can do during if the tickle gets you like it seems here. Plus, the heckler could have made it much worse - and heightened her emotion (fight or flight) during her speech. Not pleasant for anyone.
Blog Post
With Dragons Den back on BBC2, it got me thinking about the next round of applicants and for those who are yet to appear this year and want to prepare some more...
News Update
I am honoured to have been invited to become one of Lancaster University Management School's (LUMS) newest Entrepreneurs in Residence and Honorary Teaching Fellows. I am looking forward to my residency, particularly engaging with staff and students as part of the EiR programme and working with the University, providing high quality voice work coaching and workshops for individuals, relevant departments and groups.
News
Since working with a paid intern on the Lancaster University Internship programme, Voice Work has been making huge changes to the way it operates as a result. The changes have taken a while to implement, and looking back it has been a roller coaster ride. Only now are we fully appreciating the benefit of having had a fabulous intern work for us. This is a post to highly recommend the programme to other businesses and to students.
News Update
I was very pleased to have been able to attend the Voice Symposium in Salzburg, Austria this year with the central theme, 'Voice and the Brain'. The schedule was intense and it was wonderful to update myself with some of the latest research. With such a large programme, the focus was on attending the seminars relating to and surrounding: voices in high levels of performance, performance anxiety, some of the latest technology and Voice Work's original starting point - promotion of healthy voice use and working on developing effective and enhanced voices.
Kelly Anne
