Rama Moondra

Off late, I am working a lot with voices. Ohh..Did I mention my course of Voice –Over Artist that I took last year. They taught me how   to play with tone but right now, I am writing about telephonic conversations. People judge a lot by the voice they hear. I do  transition coaching on phone and have heard my coaches react sharply to different voice-modulations.

While a picture may be worth a thousand words, a voice is priceless.  Many things a voice can reveal that are worth knowing about someone. Certainty, cooperativeness, authority, and attention are  natural traits that are visible  :) on phone, and a savvy person knows how to leverage them .From umm’s to huh’s, voice is filled with signals that might make a person repeat, skip, or rephrase a question. I do that a lot to get cues in training hall.

In the world that we are in, Internet rules our life. We talk with fingers and learn with eyes glued to computers. Long that you spoke to an old friend wishing New Year. It’s about e-cards and sms.

A lot of conflict resolutions can happen in colleagues if you do not cramp the mail box and call the person. The more we learn with our eyes and tell with our fingers, the less we’re hearing what’s being said.  Voice communication will prove ever more valuable as  the social networking and search engine optimization crowd our world.

A word that comes from a person’s mouth and not their keyboards is going to become as precious as ever. Number-crunching will  get the point across, but voices amplify the meaning.

Listen up.