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• Welcome to the Business Souls podcast which helps you to maximise your magnificence by exploring one topic each week for 10 minutes.

• "There's hardly anything I've ever done that's made me cringe; I've got pretty good pitch, for a start, so I'm not known for hitting bum notes. Robert Palmer, Musician

• Hello Business Souls
• 2 Part on Pause, Pace and Pitch
• Important techniques for delivering your content live, podcast or youtube

• The quote this week sums up half of this episode
• Pitch is important to aid understanding
• Pace is important because it has a direct correlation on pitch.
• If you are speaking too fast this directly affects your diction

• Pause, pace and pitch
• Pause important tool to give you confidence, emphasise points, build tension, limit um’s and ahs’s, punctuate, listen and feedback

• Importance Of Pace
• A rate of progress
• Important to find right pace
• Don’t want to go too fast
• Don’t want to go too slow
• Identify what the context is
• If rapping for example don’t want to go slow
• If you want to make a talk interesting don’t want to go too slow

• If reading something you want to be consistent
• If talking about something want to be engaging so might want to vary the pace.
• E.g. use pace to your advantage. Add drama by starting to tell a story then gradually getting more into a frenzy.
• Make a point can slow down and combine with pauses.
• You need to speak slower than you think

• The tone of your voice
• Avoid monotonous tone
• Try not to let pitch fall towards end of sentances
• use pitch for emphasis

• This occurs when we are not concentrating on what we are doing and when we are scared
• Don’t vary pitch at all
• Very boring to listen to
• Be prepared for your audience to go to sleep

• Keep pitch up right to the end
• Don’t let pitch fall down
• Think about happy thoughts
• When we are happy and positive then our pitch stays up
• Now think about when you are sad or scared
• What happens to your pitch
• You may not even be able to get your words out
• Otherwise you may start ok but the end of your sentance will tail off

• When you are in a market how to traders attract your attention. They shout
• What happens if your in immediate danger the pitch and tone goes up and gets loud
• Sometimes that is important to get someones attention
• Use sparingly
• What happens when you whisper. Everyone has to listen that bit harder
• This can be used to highlight an important bit of your talk
• You can purposely drop the end of the sentence so no one can hear. To make a point

• Pause, pace and pitch when used together can make a massive difference
• Pause can give you a chance to think about what it is you want to say
• Pace has to be used for the context you are given
• Pitch can be used to emphasise and to make sure that your words can be understood

• Find a poem to read. Work out where you need to alter your pace and pitch. Work out if there are any places that you should...

• Welcome to the Business Souls podcast which helps you to maximise your magnificence by exploring one topic each week for 10 minutes.

• "Life doesn't come with a REWIND, FAST FORWARD or PAUSE BUTTON. Once it starts it PLAYS until it ends or until you press STOP.” Sonya Parker, Author

• Hello Business Souls
• 2 Part on Pause, Pace and Pitch
• Important techniques for delivering your content live, podcast or youtube

• Hard when you are speaking especially live
• Panic when you start
• See people walk off stage because can’t cope
• Number of strategies to make you more confident

• Taught by my grandmother
• Each element gives you confidence and makes your delivery much smoother
• Important to practice. The more you do the better you become.
• This process is all about how you deliver your speech
• With podcasting / YouTube you can always just do another take
• If you are live on Facebook / Instagram / YouTube / Twitch you cannot do another version so you need to think carefully
• Pause - this is not to be muddled with pace which we will briefly discuss here which is how fast you speak.
• Pause - gives you confidence used in the correct way, limits you um’s and ah’s and can be used for dramatic effect.
• Pace - how quickly you deliver your content. Tendency to deliver quickly when nervous or pause because cannot get the words out
• Pitch - the way that you speak. So we don’t want a monotoned voice but we also don’t want to speak talking into your hands. There are various techniques to ensure that you can speak with confidence.
• This week we are going to to discuss Pause
• Next week we will discuss Pace and Pitch

Build Tension

• You see it all the time programmes to build tension
• We will be back after the break
• And the winner is…..
• Tension is created by pausing
• Careful not to use too much
• Very effective

Thinking Time

• It is important to think about what you are going to say.
• Pausing helps because you can reflect on what you think and then say something

Unnecessary Um’s and Ah’s

• We are prone to make a noise to let someone know that we are thinking
• In everyday conversation that is ok and sometimes when being interviewed.
• Also a confidence thing.
• We um and ah to make out that we do nknow what we are talking about but have not got there yet.
• Annoying when editing

Confidence

• It is the day of my fathers funeral.
• The time of the day has come where I have to speak
• I must speak well to honour my father
• Over 100 eyes are looking at me
• My confidence boost
• Look round everyone and catch their attention
• Deep breath in
• Speak
• Massive confidence booster

Listen

• You can’t listen and speak
• Pause whilst someone is talking to you
• Listen to what they have to say
• Act on what they tell you

Punctuate

• Pause a little after each sentance
• This will punctuate what you have to say

Feedback

• Pause to get feedback
• If live audience do you want them to clap, boo, jeer or ask questions for...