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Outcome Focus™ Solution
Use as a training tool: Present the situation below to the group and have them brainstorm how they would best handle the situation. Then share the Outcome Focus™ answer and see how it relates or differs from solutions the group found. Situation: Anne, I recently was hired as an Enterprise Architect. After giving my first presentation to my new team, I was told that I speak in such a monotone voice that it was hard to understand what the key points were. People asked questions that I thought I covered and others seemed to miss the point overall. How can I learn to speak with more vocal variety so they listen to what I say? Outcome Desired: You want your team to take action on your suggestions. You want to keep the team engaged, and interactive. Other Person's Perspective: Your team wants to understand you and follow your suggestions. The challenge is that in the absence of voice intonation or modulation, people will have a tendency to give your message a negative connotation. They will also have difficulty interpreting what you want them to do. Therefore you must have some fluctuation and variation in your voice. Best Handled: The best way to practice varying your voice is to read children’s books out loud. Make sure you adjust your voice for each character and that you clearly articulate each word. Practice with a tape recorder so you can listen to yourself from the audience’s perspective. You can also think about a subject you are passionate about and then talk about that into a tape recorder. Listen to your voice fluctuation and see how it changes as you talk about something you have a lot of passion for. Then take any piece of reading and try to read it with that same passion. Not varying your voice would be like someone playing a piano piece at the same tempo, same note, at the same volume (think “chopsticks for the ears”). It is relatively fast that your audience will tune you out completely. Therefore they will miss all the great information you give. A quick acid test to determine if you are too monotone or too detailed is to watch the types of questions people ask back of you. Questions should be ones that expand on what you say rather than asking you to repeat what you covered.
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