Why You Should Avoid The Corporate Monotone
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I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts lately and I’ve noticed something: Too much corporate monotone. I’m doing it in this video. I'm trying to sustain it for the entire, thankfully short, video, but it's not easy.
The corporate monotone is when your voice has a flat, low-expression affect. So your voice stays within a very narrow pitch range.
I call it a speech virus because it’s so contagious. I think people do it because they mistakenly think it makes them sound serious and smart. But what it really makes them sound is boring. And especially in these days of video it’s more important that ever to use every tool at our disposal to be interesting and convey our message.
Your voice is one of those tools.