Accent Reduction

If you have strong accent, you may want to learn to speak without the accent, as it could seriously impact a business career. A heavy or strong accent could limit understanding. Clear and effective speech is mandatory for the highly competitive business environment. A regional accent or a foreign accent often distracts the listener, which prevents your message from being heard, and could possibly lead others to think you are not a leader.

Poor communication skills and heavy accents usually mask a person’s real capabilities. After working with our accent reduction consultants, our clients have found that their audiences listened more and valued their messages more often.

Public Speaking Training

Speaking Skills helps you improve public speaking by teaching you the techniques to deliver clear communication. The clearer your communication, the more people will listen to you — and take you seriously. We teach you how to reduce nervousness and build self-confidence, which allows you to project a leadership role. Part of public speaking training includes teaching you how to connect with your audience with your voice. We also help you eliminate bad habits, such as vocal habits — saying, "Uhh" — and distracting gestures.

Leadership Training

Part of leadership training and business communication involves learning how to speak clearly and effectively. People are more apt to see you as a leader if you eliminate certain vocal habits and distracting gestures. Learning how to enunciate certain words and how to project your voice so you sound professional and sure about the topic you are speaking about is part of leadership training. People often judge others by their first impressions, so as soon as you open your mouth to say the first few words, people will be judging you based on your speech. You want your first impression to count so people listen to your message.

Call our office, servicing Boston, MA, for your free voice analysis.