How To Sound Interesting: Get People To Listen To You | Mike McClement

How to sound interesting using your voice. Get people to listen to you by making your voice more interesting.
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3 great techniques to teach you how to sound interesting and get people to listen to you more just by using your voice effectively.
Use these voice techniques at work and socially. You only need to make some simple tweaks to your voice to help you sound more interesting and engage people.
First - listen to yourself! This isn’t something you naturally do. We talk, we don’t think about listening to how we sound. So when you talk, have the self-discipline to consciously think about how you’re sounding. Try to pick up the tone - is it monotone? Sounding boring could well be the reason why people aren’t listening to you.
Sounding more interesting normally revolves around whether or not you sound enthusiastic. If you don’t sound enthusiastic when you’re talking, why should the other person be interested or enthused by you? If you don’t look interested in what you’re talking about, don’t expect the other person to be!
Second - don’t be afraid to use your hands more. Use your hands to support and reinforce what you’re saying. Your voice will sound more expressive and more lively with hand movements to support it. Moving your hands helps your voice to modulate more. You won’t sound monotone.
So the first tip is to use your hands more. There’s nothing wrong with that. Don’t worry about them being a distraction. That’s unlikely to happen. You’re better off using them if you want to sound more interesting.
Second tip - Modulate the speed you talk at. Talk generally at a speed that is acceptable. The key tip here is to slow down when you want to emphasise a point.
If you slow down slightly and are more deliberate with your voice for important points, the person or group you’re talking to becomes aware something’s changed. You’re doing something different. They take notice. They become more alert. Do this to emphasise key points and to help you sound interesting when it matters.
How to sound interesting - Quick summary:
1. Listen to yourself
2. Use your hands to help you come across more expressively
3. Slow down for key points
About Mike McClement
Mike McClement is a leading confidence coach in the UK and an international best-selling confidence author. His book ‘Brilliant Self-Confidence’ has been translated into 5 languages.
Mike’s practical techniques have proved that, whatever your situation, confidence really is a skill you can learn. His trusted formula for building self-confidence has helped thousands of people worldwide.
What gives Mike his unique edge is his ability to make confidence building manageable, even for people who see the challenge as pretty well impossible.
Based in the UK, Mike still includes face to face confidence courses in his coaching schedule. His small group sizes (maximum 6 people) make these powerful courses unique. He has always believed that learning to be confident should be a personal, relaxed experience to make it meaningful and successful. Places on these courses are highly sought after.
In both his on-line and one day courses, Mike’s practical approach to building confidence focuses firstly on tackling self-doubt. He then reveals simple ways to think positively, look impressive, speak confidently and come across as someone worth listening to. Mike’s aim is to help people make the most of every opportunity at work and socially.
Mike also works one to one with middle and senior managers coaching leadership and presentation skills and runs team development and strategy sessions for senior teams.
Mike’s ultimate driver lies behind his passion for helping people seize opportunities, be successful and enjoy life to the full.
Over two decades, Mike has helped thousands of individuals to build confidence on a personal level and hundreds of businesses to develop confidence in their employees.