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Read well-written novels. Turn off garbage television.
Broaden your vocabulary - a-word-a-day calendars are quite good for this. Challenge yourself to use each WOTD correctly during the day.
Read speeches - americanrhetoric.com is a terrific resource. Analyse favorite speeches for the devices that made them memorable - metaphor, alliteration, anaphora, epistrophe, etc.
Put a big fat lip stretching dip of Copenhagen long cut. It makes you annunciate your words
The quick fix is to take a second to think before you speak, be mindful about your word choice, and be conscious about your pronunciation. If you do that you're probably ahead of most people already. EY and M have suggested good slightly longer term solutions I think.
Watch house of cards. Frank will teach you a thing or two
Listen to YouTube videos of the late Christopher Hitchens
Speak slower. If you slow down your words per minute you can be more deliberate with what you say. I am aghast at some of the speeds with which some people speak
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Read as much as you can and as someone mentioned above, stop bad influences such as television.
Join a toastmasters group!
EY3, I so love Christopher Hitchens
I would take voice lessons, do the reading mentioned above and consider a corporate voice coach if you are really serious. Singing does amazing things to your tonal quality and the reading will help with vocab
Go to stand and deliver or dynamic facilitation trainings. Deloitte offers both for just this purpose
Be honest (maybe not in front of a client) if someone says a word you don't know. I consider myself fairly well versed but there's always more to know. It may shock some ppl when I pause to ask what a word means, but I sure as hell will remember it.
Make friends, open up, talk, learn from each other, repeat
I agree. Read more.
English is my third language. I would read poetry out loud to practice annunciation and cadence.
Read The New Yorker, watch PBS.
Does toastmasters really work?