Put Your Best Voice Forward (MSEL082319)
(08/23/2019-08/23/2019)
Course Memo
The minute you open your mouth, others begin to form opinions about you. Your voice’s clarity and quality, as well as how you manage your body, connect to your confidence and your perceived leadership potential. So what can you do to make yourself sound and look more professional, prepared and competent? This session will help you understand how the voice works and lays out techniques for daily practice that can have immediate and lasting change. You will learn how to free your body of tension, stand tall and balanced, enunciate effectively, and control performance anxiety and your voice’s power with deep breathing. Attend to learn strategies and techniques to share your message confidently, because you deserve to be heard!
Rena Cook is the founder of Vocal Authority, a training and development business serving corporate clients, including managers, politicians, attorneys, teachers, clergy and CEOs, who want to use their voice in more commanding and authentic ways. She is an author, speaker, coach, voice-over artist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Oklahoma School of Drama. Rena holds a M.A. in Voice Studies from London’s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, an M.F.A. in Directing from OU and an M.A. in Guidance & Counseling from TU. Rena taught high school drama for 16 years before she graduated to higher education. For the next two decades she taught professional actors, many of whom can be seen on Broadway, film and television. Through Vocal Authority, Rena adapts actor training techniques to help individual and groups be more confident and dynamic communicators.
(Leadership, voice, speaking, clarity, quality, connect, confidence, potential, balanced, enunciate, effective, power, breathing)