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Alex B. Ramsey
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Invited not once, but three times to ring the opening bell at NASDAQ, Alex helps successful leaders improve strategies, personal communication, and dicey people issues. Her techniques accelerate business success. From economic issues to goal setting, her topics are full of high performance content, mind-boggling new ideas, and immediate application! "As leaders grow in wisdom, insight, and integrity, companies grow," according to Alex. Alex and her uncommon, common sense make it easier for others in companies such as ExxonMobil, BHP Billiton, or CompuCom to shine - and win business. .... Liberty Mutual added $80MM to their bottom line. ATT (formerly SBC) won the largest telecom implementation contract in the company's history. Venture-funded clients raised an impressive $300MM. The list goes on.... Adjunct Faculty Entrepreneurship the Cox School of Business at SMU
Past-President National Speakers Association Of North Texas President
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Does the Audience Hear Screeching When You Talk?
You may be "screeching," even though your voice is considered "normal," all because of how your vagus nerve affects subtle muscles in your face and throat, cueing an audience to evaluate you as trustworthy -- or not.
According to psychology professor and researcher, Dr. David DeSteno, increased electrical activity in the vagus nerve decreases the release of stress hormones which, in turn, relax throat muscles that influence the larynx's ability to provide intonations. Decreased electrical activity in the vagus, and your face and throat tense as the stress hormones take over.
Given that speaking to an audience is inherently stressful, how can you increase vagal tone under such circumstances? Many paths lead to the solution, not the least of which is consciously practiced calm breathing before you meet over stressful issues or deliver a speech.
The rigorous application of practice long before the difficult situation gives you the skill-building foundation to successfully handle an actual incident. Otherwise, no matter what your content is, you might as well be screeching; because that's what the audience will hear.
Alex B. Ramsey May 8, 2014
Vol. 6 Iss.8
P.S. If so inspired, please pass this along to others. You never know how it might make a difference to someone!
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