COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUES
- BODY LANGUAGE
- Intention -- knowing the difference between casualness and relaxation
- Both feet firmly planted on the floor
- Placement of hands (never in pockets)
- Body should be straight but not rigid
- Approach to ambo -- departure from ambo
- VOCAL ELEMENTS
- Voice quality
- Slowness -- slowly enough, loudly enough, clearly enough, directly enough
- Breathing -- diaphragm breathing as opposed to "from the neck up"
- Mechanics -- know your mike system -- multi-directional...distance from...projection power...
- ARTICULATION
- Lazy speech
- Dropping voice
- EYE CONTACT
- Timing important -- more effective at the end of a thought or sentence
- COPING WITH THE "UNEXPECTED"
- ATTITUDE
- A reader is a member of a team -- not a soloist who is independent of the other elements in the ceremony
- ORAL INTERPRETATION -- READING AND COMMUNICATING
- Sound intellectual and emotional understanding is of first importance. The reader is aware of:
- WORDS that need emphasis
- IDEAS that need to be given
- PLACES where pauses are needed
- PLACES where inflection is needed
- A good reader is interested in his/her listeners. He/she forgets himself/herself and concentrates on "SELLING THE GOODS".
- Read IDEAS, not words
- Concentrate on MEANING