Football is alive! And how he lives. One match chases the other. Fans come together, in private living rooms, at barbecues with friends, at public viewing or perhaps even live in one of the Brazilian stadiums. Wherever it may be, one thing is clear: a football event – when real enthusiasm is involved – requires vocal power. Cheering, shouting, cheering – your favourite team wants to be motivated!
In a figurative sense this applies daily to meetings and team meetings. What watching football and motivating employees have in common, I'll tell you in my blog post.
If you have some follow the following tips, you will get through your football evening well and are guaranteed to have the energy in your voice at the next meeting that will help your ideas and contributions in the team to achieve a breakthrough:
Your favorite team enters the field. They sit in front of the TV set with nine friends and wait spellbound for things to come. The evening will be exciting in every respect. Five of your friends including yourself are for team A, the remaining four others for team B. You already know that in the course of the evening you will want to outdo each other in cheering. Everyone will try to make themselves heard vocally in order to be the loudest for THEIR team. How will your voice withstand that? And is that really the right way to convince vocally?
Here it is important to know: If you want to be vocally convincing, you don't have to be loud. It's about the intensity and energy in the voice – on the sidelines of the pitch as well as at work. Just concentrate on being loud, produce hot air. It's tiring for the voice, and you don't like to listen. However, if you make your ideas heard powerfully, fully and room-filling - or express your desire and friends while watching football, you will drown out your seat neighbors without any problems and hoarseness doesn't stand a chance. Listen to how this works in my Antenne Bayern interview with Paul Johannes Baumgartner:
By the way, this also applies for the coaches, who have to communicate efficiently with their troops from the edge of the pitch. Here, too, pure volume is of no use. But targeted grounding and a clear focus on the player who is to receive the message. Shouting instead of screaming is the motto. It helps to concentrate fully on the spatial distance and to speak in exactly the direction you are aiming for. Yes, this also works in huge stadiums if the focus is right!
In any case, I wish I wish you a lot of fun with the upcoming games up to the exciting final on July 13 in Rio. If you want to know how to best use the power of your voice to inspire and convince your teams and listeners – secure one of the remaining places in my popular compact course Speech Rhetoric – Speaking and Presenting with a Strong Voice!
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