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Presenting with Confidence

You may be more comfortable communicating by e-mail or telephone than in person. Presenting to large or small groups, even on a one-to-one may intimidate or frighten you. Yet good presentation skills are vital to your career success.

Oral presentations offer important opportunities to put all your communication skills on display; including your research, planning, writing, visual design, and interpersonal and non-verbal communication.

This intensive 2-day program is specially designed to hone your skills in speaking confidently, delivering a compelling presentation and handling challenging situations. Customers and businesses want people who can express themselves clearly and confidently, and are persuasive and comfortable communicating with a wide variety of people, from top executives to operational workers. These are also important attributes organisations seek when searching for talents to promote.

For Presenting with Confidence, participants would need to come prepared with a 5 min presentation with about 5-7 powerpoint slides using their laptop or thumb drive. They can choose any topic of interest. There will be an additional 2 min of Q&A. Please bring your mobile phone for video recording.

Objective

At the end of this highly-interactive workshop, successful participants will learn to:

• Acquire the elements of a Toastmasters training
• Project a professional corporate image
• Deliver a clear, persuasive and compelling presentation
• Plan, organise and construct an effective presentation
• Develop charisma in your delivery and engage your audience
• Overcome nervousness and anxiety when presenting to large or senior group
• Create memorable attention catchers in your opening
• Manage your presentation confidently from start to finish
• Use effective and appropriate visuals aids
• Win over your audience with a compelling message
• Acquire power in your voice for maximum impact
• Use positive non-verbal language to engage your audience
• Ensure your audience walks away remembering your key message
• Handle questions and answers with confidence
• Manage difficult participants and situations
• Raise your bar from an ordinary to a powerful communicator!

Outline

Getting Started

• Be aware of self
• Understand the fundamentals of persuasive presentations
• The Dos and Don’ts of an effective presentation
• Effective strategies to manage fear and anxiety when presenting to large audience and senior management

Preparing the Presentation

• Research and analyse audience’s profiles
• Defining and developing a clear purpose
• Plan, construct and organise your speech with the correct format; open, body and close
• Open your speech powerfully with a strong attention catcher

Delivering the Presentation

• Make your first impression count
• Win over your listeners with a compelling AIDA persuasive technique
• Use facts and evidence effectively to support your key points
• How to deliver your content coherently, persuasively and compellingly

Engaging Your Audience

• Speak with passion and conviction
• Use powerful non-verbal language to captivate your audience
• Deliver your speech with charisma and confidence
• Add dynamism to your speech by projecting your voice and developing vocal variety
• Use effective story telling techniques to engage your audience

Handling Audio & Visual Aids

• The principles of designing effective visuals
• Less is more
• Familiarising yourself with the audio and visual equipment
• Smooth handling of audio and visual aids during presentation

Perfecting the Presentation

• Manage time effectively
• Handling questions and answers with confidence
• Dealing with difficult participants and situations
• Conclude in a memorable and positive manner
• Gain mastery and confidence as a powerful presenter!

Who should attend

This course is suitable for all levels of staff including senior and mid-managers, supervisors, executives, frontline staff and those who seek to improve their professional skills in business communication.

Methodology

Highly Experiential with bite size lectures, individual and group discussions, presentations, multi-channel feedback, written exercises, video clips.

Note: All presentations to be recorded using participant’s smart devices for quick mobile access, efficiency, convenience and cost effectiveness.

Maximum 12 participants

Testimonials

Very inspiring. Very Clear with our objective. Very informative.

Very engaging and had my full attention, knows the subject very well.

Very good experience and benefit me. Thanks for Betty bring such wonderful training to us.

I have realized what my issues in public speaking are, thank you for assisting in identifying them. You have an amazing, calming presence, thank you for helping me, very informative.

Learnt a lot from Ms Betty on presentation skills.

In-House training for Bombardier Business Aircraft

Profile of Betty Kan-Sekine

Betty Kan-Sekine is a Certified Professional Trainer (IPMA, UK), a Certified NeuroLinguistic Programming Practitioner (NFNLP, USA) and a certified Metaplan Facilitator (Metaplan, Germany). She is also an Associate Lecturer with the Singapore Institute of Management (Recipient of the SIM 2015 Teaching Award) and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Betty was certified by Nobel Prize nominee, Tony Buzan as a ThinkBuzan Licensed Instructor and an iMindMap Advanced Instructor. Betty is a Certified Instructor of ExperienceInnovation™|Learn in Design Thinking. Betty is recognized as an Adult Education Professional by SkillsFutureSG of the government of Singapore. Betty holds certification as an ACTA-accredited trainer. She graduated with honors from San Francisco State University.

Prior to her current role, Betty was a banker in San Francisco and held a California Securities Broker License, Series 7 & 63. She was subsequently appointed as Director of Client Services at a litigation law firm in the United States to manage the Asian clientele market due to her unique trilingual capability. Her passionate customer centric attitude won her team a prestigious Bronze Medal award for outstanding achievement in Service Excellence by the World Journal in the USA. She has appeared on multiple radio talk shows for AM1450 in San Francisco and FM938 Live! in Singapore. Her articles were published in the Singapore Straits Times as well as India’s Hindustan Times. Her corporate experiences span across major industries in the aviation, financial and legal sectors.

Some of her participants were from Apple South Asia Pte Ltd, Carrier Global, Astellas Pharma Singapore, MSD Korea Ltd, Here Solutions APAC, Wharf T & T (Hong Kong), Drydocks World Southeast Asia (Government of Dubai), National University of Singapore, INSEAD SG Business School (Executive Coaching), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Enterprise Singapore, Housing and Development Board, Wildlife Reserve Singapore, Singapore Police Force, Singapore Prison Service, Changi Airport Group, Jurong Town Corporation, Singapore Tourism Board, Health Promotion Board, Ministry of Home Affairs, Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore, Land Transport Authority, United Overseas Bank, Bank of Singapore, RHB Bank Singapore, Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, UMC Semiconductors, Singapore Refining Company Pte Ltd, ComfortDelGro Corporation Ltd & KPMG LLP, among many others.

Betty enjoys a diverse cultural background having lived in the US and Japan for 17 years. Her outstanding professionalism and rich working experiences have helped her develop valuable life skills in Business Communication, Leadership & Management, Innovation & Creativity, Client Services and Personal Effectiveness. She believes in the power of maximizing one’s potential by improving and changing oneself from the inside out. Her passion is in helping individuals be the best they can be.