From the course: Speaking Confidently and Effectively

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Speak in sync with your audience

Speak in sync with your audience

- In your book "Knockout Presentations," you've got a whole lot of protips. I'd love to hear of the things that we have not yet covered which do you think really provides the greatest amounts of leverage? Like we'd get a whole bunch of improved knockout power for not a whole lot of effort. - You need to project your voice. Voice is important as well. It's second to body language. And the meta message is in the voice. So if you say, "I'm not angry, what makes you think I'm angry?" You know, that's the message, not the words. So match your tone to the audience and that's important. If you are in a group meeting where there's going to be dialogue and you have someone who's soft-spoken then you don't want to be loud like this because that's a disconnect. So pacing your audience is important. Meaning the pace at which you speak, the level at which you speak, the volume, how fast or slow you move is important. You want…

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