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Uniquely You: Mastering Design and Delivery for Impactful Presentations

More people fear public speaking than they fear death. Not everyone can be a Steve Jobs or TED Talk speaker, but even the best presenters don’t just simply jump onto a stage to work their magic. The secret to impactful presentations lies in strategic thinking and preparation, and in developing the right skills to harness YOUR unique strengths to deliver a presentation that resonates with your audience.

This course empowers you with essential communication skills to excel in various professional business contexts. Whether you're pitching an idea, presenting a proposal or speaking at an internal meeting, mastering these skills will impress clients, partners, senior management and decision-makers, leading to more successful outcomes.

Objective

By the end of this course, participants will be able to DESIGN and DELIVER powerful presentations that are uniquely you by:

• Understanding the elements and importance of effective business communication (in formal and informal settings, including making small talk)
• Organising and crafting compelling content tailored to your target audience to achieve desired outcomes
• Improving your ability to leverage impactful and visually appealing presentations
• Learning techniques to present confidently within your comfort zone to deliver your messages in an engaging manner as a presenter
• Understanding and harnessing the power of appropriate verbal and non-verbal techniques that make your presentation authentically YOU
• Enhancing your ability to deal with audience questions smoothly and effectively

Outline

Note that the below outline provides only a topline summary of the key elements usually covered in a one-day course – it is not an exhaustive list of the full range of topics and practices included within the course. The actual course content will also be subject to further adjustment depending on duration, final group size and dynamics.

This one-day workshop guides participants in the areas of two Ds:

1. Designing your content – “What you say”
2. Delivering your content – “How you say it”

Introduction

• Importance of effective business communication (include small talk in business settings)

Designing your content – “What you say”

• Building for success
  • Organising your content (structuring messages for intended audiences to achieve desired goals)
  • Developing a message house
  • Making messages stick
  • Employing storytelling techniques
  Packaging your presentation
  • Design principles and best practices
  • Leveraging common resources and tools

Delivering your content – “How you say it”

• Verbal (areas to note and techniques for control)
• Non-verbal (projecting confidence, eye contact, hand gestures, use of space)
• Managing Q&A (blocking and bridging techniques, recovery, tips)

There will be opportunities* over the day to put into practice what you have learnt:

• 60-second elevator pitch
• Working on your Powerpoint slide
• Presenting a PowerPoint slide with Q&A time (limited number of participants only – depending on time available)

* Practice modes and intensity may differ depending on final group size and dynamics.

Who should attend

This course is ideal for anyone seeking to enhance their presentation skills across various professional scenarios:

• Anyone looking to uncover their unique presentation strengths to address their own specific presentation challenges.
• Individuals with great ideas who need guidance on how to present them effectively for approval or action.
• Those with well-prepared PowerPoint decks but who feel apprehensive about presenting them.
• Seasoned presenters looking to refine their delivery or adapt their presentation for different audiences.

Methodology

Participants will enjoy a hands-on workshop that goes beyond theories as they get involved in interactive discussions and build their knowledge with a lively course peppered with personal anecdotes, corporate scenarios and relevant video examples. They will have a memorable learning session with the practical application of concepts through activities such as working on scenarios and handouts; engaging in class discussions; as well as learning by action and application.

*Depending on final group size and dynamics, scenario and presentation may be conducted individually or in groups. Participants should bring a laptop with Microsoft PowerPoint installed and have basic proficiency with the software. Please also save on your laptop an editable copy of a short presentation you are seeking to refine and present in class.

Profile of Wendy Loh

“If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skilfully, you can work miracles.” – American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker Jim Rohn

Unlock the power of effective communication with Wendy, a seasoned expert with over 20 years of practitioner experience in the communications field. Wendy blends practical skills with proven corporate training experience to offer a transformative learning experience that goes beyond theories and models.

Wendy has worked across diverse and multicultural environments spanning corporate, brand and consumer sectors (in Beijing as well where she had spent a decade). Adding to her comms practitioner expertise, she has a training background, having designed sessions, developed/updated materials and delivered/facilitated trainings for companies across the technology, finance, FMCG, hospitality, education and fashion industries.

She has also coached senior company executives in areas of communication, media and presentation skills, as well as managed and mentored high-performing teams in her leadership roles. In addition to previous speaker engagements for comms-related sharing at Singapore Management University and Nanyang Business School (NBS), NTU, Wendy was an adjunct tutor at NBS in Communication Management Fundamentals (business writing, presentation, social media).

Over the years, she has honed her communication and professional business skills ranging from content development to stakeholder/media engagement and issues management, along with critical C-suite experience providing strategic counsel to companies and senior executives for effective profiling. Going beyond such hard skills, Wendy has a passion for mentoring/coaching and talent development/management, and is always looking to enable and empower others to truly enjoy and excel at what one is doing.

Wendy adopts a refreshing and engaging training approach, ensuring classes are kept interesting, current and relevant by keeping a pulse on the industry and sharing from the depth and breadth of her extensive corporate experience in the field of communications.

Wendy has delivered or facilitated trainings for companies such as:
Accor, Applied Materials, BNY, EDHEC Business School, Johnson Controls, Marina Bay Sands, Meta, Keppel REIT, Levi Strauss, Nobel Media, P&G, SLS Bearings, ZF Group

Wendy has communications experience working on brands such as:
Adobe, AYANA, Bloomberg, BNY (in-house role), Breast Cancer Foundation, Cargill (in-house role), Dolby Asia, Fullerton Hotel, Haier, ICAEW, IMD, Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), International Baccalaureate, Johnson Controls, Mastercard, Microsoft, NCS (in-house role), Netflix, New Zealand Trade & Enterprise, Nobel Media, Heineken, Olay, Pratt & Whitney, Prudential Financial, Qantas, SABIC, Safeguard, Samsung, Schneider Electric, Shangri-La Hotels, Shiseido, Siemens, Standard Chartered, StarHub (in-house role), P&G, Tufts University, Visa, Verizon