Talking Voice

31/03/2026

The Talking Voice podcasts on NLP and Emotional Intelligence are HERE! Each podcast is relaly a soundbite but packed with goodness! easy ot listen to and digest in bitesize chunks.
https://open.spotify.com/show/2ZxwswXUhlcYvWFHZxvjDX?si=abb3000e80a24712

Podcast · Janet Shell: Talking Voice · How NLP can transform your teaching

19/03/2026

Very happy to have had such strong feedback from my session with trainees in Birmingham a couple of weeks ago! If you have any influence, please encourage other trainee insitutions to understand the fundamental importance of this work in transforming classrooms

17/10/2025

You can flip through Flippin Rs or read it cover to cover! Each chapter can be read separately so you can find what you need for any particular lesson. Your voice so needs this!

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09/09/2025

My knowledge on voice comes from a career spent in singing and the teaching of singing. Now I have written what is important for a voice IMHO.
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06/09/2025

19/08/2025

Report out today on gender pay gap in education. Sigh. Come on girls, fight it! And of course we know what that can mean - males clubbing together to oust a troublesome woman. "Not suited to the role". meanwhile thanks to all male colleagues who also feel this is unfair and discriminatory and who value skill sets whoever is displaying them.

23/05/2025

My specialism is voice and how to build rapport and connect with people. Voice and presence are a large part of this and it is always an absolute honour to be asked to visit a trainee and spend some time listening to them and watching how they set out their classroom stall. I bring what I know from my own teaching experience, coupled with my experience as a seasoned performer and I add in my intuitive skills honed by emotional intelligence and neuro linguistic programming. Today, I heard from a teacher I saw last week who was drowning under advice and help from colleagues. I simplifed what I felt she need to focus on, what would make the most difference with immediate effect and I am so thrilled to hear that she is turning that corner.

20/05/2025

I visit schools and help trainees with their classroom presence, voice and often end up crossing over to behaviour strategies which are so lined up with voice and presence. There have been many quiet successes over the years , but this has made my day

15/02/2025

I work with a lot of excellent teachers who struggle in the classroom. Students say they can't understand them, but it is NEVER about accent. The English language is a right old mix of elements and has survived because it has absorbed language traits from all the times we have been invaded. So we are a little bit Italian, a little bit Danish, a little bit German and of course a little bit French. This plays out in the sounds of our language but overall it feels more Germanic to me - those Saxons! French was only spoken in the nobility, so took longer to become integrated. If you are a teacher who is coming to work here from abroad, it is worth thinking about how different languages works. Do you naturally run words together in a constant stream of sound? This can result in faster, less easily understood speech. Checking out the percussive consonants of English for the ends of words is something to consider! I have learnt to take on board different sounds as a classical singer who has to sing in many different languages, so I help teachers with the phonetics I have learnt and add that into their understanding. It works!

03/02/2025

I have been bringing in emotional intelliegence and talking about it for many years now. Emotional responses are at the heart of every single lesson, yet when I offer it there is poor response. Well we need to change that! Modelling EI needs to be part of a teacher's toolkit because that way, you can change lives and show there is a response that is caring and considered and fair. It isn't difficult!