As training manager, I'm looking to include budget for virtual classroom and asynchronous learning technologies where I couldn't find a corporate appetite before. Sameness is the Deadliest Sin in Facilitating Even when you planned well, prepared well, organized well, you can bore the learners to death without vocal variety. At times when, internally, you are searching for the next idea, or the next image, or the next word that will help you express those ideas or images. Also realize that some images and words are more difficult to find than others. So, not all pauses should have the same duration.
Most expressive facilitators jump to a higher pitch on an important word early in each major phrase.
Then, they move the pitch back down in smaller steps on each syllable that follows. If every new moment, every new action, every new image or new memory goes by at exactly the same speed, before long they all begin to take on a similar tone. Avoid this problem by integrating frequent pace changes with your active use of pitch variety and pauses.