{"id":39,"date":"2006-10-04T15:51:47","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T14:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/2006\/10\/04\/a-lady-dont-you-know\/"},"modified":"2006-10-04T15:51:47","modified_gmt":"2006-10-04T14:51:47","slug":"a-lady-dont-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/a-lady-dont-you-know\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lady, don’t you know!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent some time this week in London, working with a female professor, attending meetings full of presentations. The fact that the Prof I was with was female didn’t matter one jot \u00e2\u20ac\u201c she was the best in the world at what these people needed to know about….<\/p>\n

….except that it did<\/strong> matter.<\/p>\n

Why? Because being a woman brings with it very specific presentation issues (see here<\/span><\/a> too) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c quite apart from the obvious old-fashioned,<\/span> chauvinistic<\/span> ones of men not wanting to listen (and sometimes preferring only to look instead). I’m thinking particularly of women’s voices.<\/p>\n

Vocal chords in women typically work at around 225-250 movements per second \u00e2\u20ac\u201c nearly twice that of men \u00e2\u20ac\u201c so it’s particularly important not to stress them. That means it’s even more crucial for women to get their posture right to protect their voice-system. Unfortunately, women are also typically shorter than men and so tend to raise their heads to look at people.<\/p>\n

Today’s tip…… don’t<\/em><\/u>. Keep your head tipped comfortably forwards by a couple of degrees and look your audience in the face by raising your eye-line, not your head! It’s odd at first, but you’ll soon get the hang of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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