Microphone Skills Leadership Activity

Leadership students need to learn proper announcement and microphone skills.

1. Microphone placement: The microphone should be close to the speaker’s mouth, but not inside of it.
2. Project Voice: The speaker still needs to project their voice even though it is being amplified by the microphone.
3. Slow down the pace: It is quite common to speed up speech patterns when on a microphone. Slow down the speed in which you are talking.
4. Be prepared: Practice what you are going to say ahead of time with the microphone turned on.



When making an announcement on a microphone follow a simple outline like the one listed below:

Who?
What?
When?
Where?
Why?

If you follow the aforementioned outlined, you will relay all of the pertinent information in a clear and concise manner. In addition, following this outline allows your announcements to be brief and to the point.

Exercise: Have your students create some brief announcements following the who-what-why-when-where format ( rally, dance, brunch activity, blood drive, etc… ). Once they have written their announcement, take them into the gym and have them read their announcement to the class using a microphone. After each announcement, allow the class to analyze how well each student did.
 

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