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In this issue:
3. The Complete Presenter™: Adding Sales & PowerPoint Presentation Skills to Basic Presentation Skills - 18 Jan (Mon) NEW!!!
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1. The Right Sound™ English Pronunciation Programme - 19 & 20 Dec (Sat & Sun)
2-Day The Right Sound™ English Pronunciation Programme
19 & 20 December 2009 (Sat & Sun)
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Registration fee: RM 800 (early bird RM 600 by 27 Nov 09)
2-Day Dare To Speak™ Public Speaking Programme for Executives & Professionals
11 & 12 January 2010 (Mon & Tues)
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
@ Crystal Crown Hotel, Jalan Utara, Petaling Jaya
1-Day The Complete Presenter™: Adding Sales & PowerPoint Presentation Skills to Basic Presentation Skills - open to graduates of Dare To Speak™ only
18 January 2010 (Mon)
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
@ Crystal Crown Hotel, Jalan Utara, Petaling Jaya
@ Crystal Crown Hotel, PJ
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| The Trainer and 9 participants | |
This was one of the easiest programmes for me as the organizer due to the good response. Besides private individuals, several companies also sent their staff (1 or 2 staff per company) to attend the training. So it was "full house" with 10 participants and for the first time we had to turn down a few who came later. However, only 9 persons made it eventually as one was unwell on the first day of the programme.
The most important skill that the participants learned on the first day, as is normally the case, was the use of hand gestures. Participants were taught to hold out their hands when speaking and to let the hands move naturally according to the rhythms of their speech. This made a big difference as the speakers now looked more confident, eager and sincere. They also said they felt more free to express themselves when holding out their hands. One participant commented that he had managed to "solve" his long-standing problem with the use of hands!
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| Great hand gestures! | ||
The other very obvious improvement was standing still while speaking. In the beginning, many of the participants moved around too much - some shifted their feet, some swayed left and right and so on. But eventually they stopped doing that. Then came the fine tunings in terms of eye contact, vocal variety, correct pronunciation, etc. For group activity, we had a debate with the usual "shouting" and noise making. This was to force particiapants to speak in a loud and clear voice and with emotion.
For me personally, I enjoyed a "new" video shown by the trainer. It was a video of our current PM Najib giving a speech. He had great vocal variety and hand gestures! All these videos inspired us to become better speakers ourselves.
Perhaps more interesting for the participants were the videos of their "before" and "after". It was encouraging for them to compare (at the end of the programme) how they were at the beginning and at the end of the 2 days of training. Everyone agreed that they looked much better now. Congratulations to all who attended and to the trainer Azmi Shahrin!
Reported by Sandy Tan
@ Pusat Tuisyen Kurnia
If the programme before this one was the easiest, this one must be the most difficult! It was difficult because of the high number of enquiries but low number of actual registrations for a variety of reasons. In fact, there was supposed to be another session for primary school children on 23 & 24 Nov, but due to low numbers I had to combine the 2 sessions for ages 11-16.
Anyway, we decided to focus our positive energies on those who actually registered and not on those who didn't. Eventually, we had a good programme and a great time.
Here are the 10 cute participants:
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 |  | Top row: Sisters Diyana, Nafeesah & Nabilah 2nd row: Brothers Suresh & Sushen 3rd row: Darren from Penang & Punitha from Cameron 4th row: Adibah, Afiq & Bryan |
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As usual, since we had only 2 days to "work on" the participants, some manhandling techniques were necessary:
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| Don't shift your legs!!! | ||
Other highlights included the debate session and the "graduation ceremony" which was attended by many parents and family members. Each participant gave a speech, after that, certificates and prizes were given away.
I was exhausted but felt appreciated when one of the parents openly thanked me (in her speech) for fetching her 3 daughters on both mornings from KL Sentral (their took the train from Putrajaya). It was good to know that my efforts were not wasted.
We hope that the response will be better in times to come.
Bonus photo:
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| The emcee couple during the graduation ceremony!! |
Reported by Sandy Tan
Sandy Tan
Training Consultant & Manager
ProSkills Trainers
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