3 posts tagged with "vocal-variety"

At the Fortune Builders' Ignite event at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, I had the pleasure of hearing from Robert O'Neill, the accepted killer of Osama Bin Ladan. A few movies have been made about him and his team, and he wrote a book on the events of the raid: The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior

The ancient Greeks came up with a framework to define how speeches are to be written, consisting of five canons: Inventio, Disposito, Elocutio, Memoria, Actio.

Public speaking is a holistic discipline. Over time, a practitioner will see how all the parts connect together seamlessly. What's nice about the learning process is that so much of public speaking can be broken into discrete components, for instance, body motion and vocal variety as two separate areas of practice.