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Vocal Health: Protect Your Voice and Prevent Problems
Vocal Health: Looking After Your Voice If you rely on your voice to do your job, vocal health is not a luxury – it is part of basic professional self‑care. Teachers, actors, singers, voice‑over artists, call‑centre workers and leaders all use their voices for hours at...
Voice Training for Leaders: How Start Network Sharpened Its Voice
How Start Network Sharpened Its Voice Communication is one of the hardest things to teach and one of the easiest things to underestimate. You can have the right idea, the right data, the right room – and still lose the moment because the delivery falls flat. That’s...
Connection in Remote Work: How to Feel Present on Video Calls
Connection in the Age of Remote Work After a long break, we’re back – and glad to be writing again. One theme has been running through almost everything we do at TemperVox lately: connection in remote work. With our acting students, professional performers and...
Is Your Voice Training Worth It? Evidence‑Informed Voice Coaching and CPD
How Do You Know That What You Are Learning Is Worth Learning? Sometimes we think we know all the facts. We’re certain those “facts” are indeed facts because, to gain access to them, we’ve had to jump over hurdles, negotiate selection processes and pay a lot of money...
Finding Inspiration in Everyday Life: What If There Was No Box?
Inspiration I’ve been thinking a lot about inspiration and its association with creativity – not just in the “creative” or performance industries, but in life in general. Inspiration comes in a plethora of forms, doesn’t it? Can you actively seek out inspiration, or...
Changing Your Accent: How to Improve Your Speech Safely and Confidently
Changing Your Accent: Voice, Habit and Identity Your voice is not only your sonic identity; it is also a powerful social indicator. The way you speak contributes to those all‑important first impressions interview and performance coaches talk about so regularly. For...
Are Accents Holding You Back? Why Accents Are Important (and What Really Needs to Change)
Accents Are Important… Discuss I’m working with a new client who feels that his accent is holding him back in his career. He’s not alone in thinking that, and his situation raises some important questions about why accents are important, and what actually needs to...
BackChat Training DVD
One of our projects over the last year has been our training DVD 'BackChat' in association with JollyBack Enterprises Ltd (www.jollyback.com). Writing, filming & now editing has rather taken over our lives at TemperVox & we've travelled up & down the M1 to...
Voice Training for Teachers: How to Communicate Clearly Without Losing Your Voice
Voice Training for Teachers: How to Communicate Clearly Without Losing Your Voice Communication takes many forms, including verbal, physical and written communication. For teachers, voice training for teachers is central to this, because your spoken voice is the main...
Singing & it’s preconceptions…
There is a common misconception that those who can, do & those who can't, teach. In reality, especially in vocational subjects those who can both do & teach. It's arguably the only way that expertise can be passed from one generation to another. The process of...
Alcohol and Your Voice: How to Stay Hydrated and Protect Your Vocal Health
Drink Your Way to a Healthier Voice Life has a habit of getting in the way of good vocal practice and health. If you rely on your voice for work, alcohol and vocal health are more connected than most people realise. Most of us enjoy an alcoholic drink every now and...
Voice Archive
Whilst preparing for the production of our forthcoming training DVD (A Fundamental Guide for Education Professionals: Manual Handling, Back & Voice Care Solutions) we're also amassing an archive of biographies on distinguished colleagues in the world of voice. So...
Voice the Union – Back & Voice Article by Lorna Taylor & Gemma Boaden
This article was published in Voice The Union's August 2011 magazine. We are currently working with Lorna Taylor on a training DVD for Education Professionals. Visit our website for more information. Practical Tip to Save your Back & Voice by Lorna Taylor,...
Voice in Sport: Grunting in Tennis, Power and Performance
Voice in Sport: Grunting, Power and Performance With Wimbledon over, and another year without a British man in the final, my mind has turned to the incredible yelps, gasps, screams and shouts that players emit during their matches. The soundtrack of modern tennis is...
Team Building and Communication: 10 Reasons It Matters at Work
Team‑Building Is Really Important Team building sits within the broader field of organisational psychology. At its best, it uses planned activities that are fun, engaging and purposeful to help groups communicate more effectively and work together with more trust and...
Back Pain and Voice: How Posture Affects Your Vocal Health at Work
Back Pain and Voice Why back pain and voice belong in the same conversation If you live with back pain and you also rely on your voice for work, you already know that they don’t happen in separate boxes. When your back hurts, it affects the way you stand, sit, breathe...
Mother’s Voice: Using Your Voice in Pregnancy and Birth
Mother’s Voice: Pregnancy, Birth and Early Infancy We’re currently conducting research into the use of a mother’s voice and baby interaction during pregnancy, labour, birth and early infancy – for mothers, fathers and babies. Our work so far has included conversations...
Blogging for fun?
Previously we've published articles & documents here about a variety of vocal, public speaking & presentational subjects, however we'll now be using the blog as a forum to interact with our followers on any of our social media channels. We're always keen to...