The following pages will give you help and guidance on the above issues.

It is important to remember that your voice is one of your most important presentation tools. Use it to deliver content which is clear, meaningful and easily heard by your audience.

Your audience shouldn't have to work hard to understand what you are saying.

Use your voice to engage your audience and convince them that you have something worthwhile and interesting to say. If you don't address your audience, nor speak clearly with confidence and commitment, along with projecting your voice, your audience will soon lose interest in what you are saying.

 

Israeli model and actor Gal Gadot first made a small appearance as Wonder Woman in 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, but here the story takes place much earlier when she’s just discovering her powers. We meet the young princess Diana (aka Wonder Woman) as a feisty child on the women-only island of Themyscira. Her mother is proud Queen Hippolyta (Connie Nielson) and her aunt is the fierce warrior, General Antiope (Robin Wright, who almost steals the show with hard muscles and horseback bravura). Together, they agree that Diana must learn to fight harder than all the rest in order to fulfil her destiny. There’s an extended setup sequence on the idyllic island, showing fit, gorgeous women training hard with fists and arrows and talking politics and history. Some may find this a little stodgy, an exercise in kitsch, but it’s hard to overstate the fun of a well-realised vision of strong, athletic women living happily without a man in sight. (The voiceover explaining the society and its relationship to the warring Greek gods is garbled nonsense of course, but this is a superhero movie so it has to be done.)

However, in the modern workplace, it is increasingly impossible to point out which digital skills you may or may not need. There is no hard and fast rule about which jobs you will need to Excel for and which jobs you will not. Digital literacy is a language; the more digital skills you have, the better you can speak it. This metaphor struck a chord with noted digital writer Marc Prensky who coined the terms ‘digital immigrant’ and ‘digital native’.

To the uninitiated, learning digital skills can make a person feel like they are entering a new country full of new customs. Digital skills come with their own set of sub-skills after all.