Presentation Power With Eloquence, Engagement And Entertainment

6.00 pm Added-value Session

Your Million Dollar Voice: A Professional Speaker’s Voice Equals Income

with Deborah Torres-Patel

Is your voice a Liability or is your voice an Asset? You spend thousands of dollars a year making sure you look good and feel good, but how do you sound? Does your voice need a makeover? Is your voice limiting you?

Attend this powerful added-value session with the world's leading voice performance coach and APSS founding member Deborah Torres-Patel. She will share with you how to dramatically increase your communication confidence and vocal effectiveness forever.

Here is a portion of what you will learn:

• 3 critical keys to free your voice anytime, anywhere
• Instantly diagnose vocal weaknesses
• Eliminate vocal strain and be able to self-correct mistakes in 10 seconds or less
• Speak with unlimited energy and enthusiasm to captivate your audience and inspire others to take action
• 1 simple singing tip that will radically improve your ability to sell
• Turn your passions into profits using your voice to market and sell products and services you love

Deborah Torres Patel has performed for millions of people on radio,TV, Broadway and international concert stages with celebrities like Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson and has shared speaking platforms with leaders like Robert Kiyosaki and Former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair.

For the past 26 years Deborah has dedicated herself to teaching hundreds of thousands of personal and professional clients in 66 countries to communicate with confidence, power and authenticity.

Presentation #1

How to Keep Your Audience Excited, Engaged
and at the Edge of Their Seats

with Eric Feng

If there is one powerful tip that will help professional speakers massively improve their presentation, it would be this: "An effective presentation is not about how much information you can give, but how much information your audience can remember."

And the key to helping your audience remember what you have to say is through engagement of their mind, heart and soul. In fact, the folks who are hiring you are beginning to realise this as well which explains why they are very particular about how well you can connect with your audience and keep them excited, engaged and at the edge of their seats.

So if you want to gain unfair advantages over your colleagues and get more call-backs, be sure to master this skill!

In this session with Eric, you will learn how to:

• Beat the curse of knowledge - your biggest obstacle to delivering a clear and compelling presentation
• Win your participants over within the first 30 seconds of your presentation and get them excited about the rest of your presentation
• Turn dry materials into interesting content that is clear, compelling and memorable
• Leverage on the different learning styles of your audience and develop a participant-centric programme

APSS Professional Member Eric Feng is a highly sought after business communication coach in Asia whose clients come from well-known companies like AIA, IBM and Pfizer. He is also a bestselling author of two business books including 'Get To The Point' which has sold more than 10,000 copies.

Widely regarded as an expert in communication, Eric is regularly interviewed on Business Times, Radio 938 and Channel 8. Most recently, Eric was also invited to be a guest contributor to Channel News Asia's business blog.

The strategies that he will be sharing with you have helped him secure repeat engagements and fresh referrals from participants who have heard him. He believes that the very same strategies can also help you gain many unfair advantages over your competitors.

Presentation #2

Getting Ahead with Global English
How to speak clearly and be understood by everyone, everywhere, every time

with Heather Hansen

In order to connect with our audiences as professional speakers, it's a prerequisite that our listeners can understand what we're saying! As professionals, we know the common pitfalls - speaking too fast, using jargon, etc., but what about the way we articulate our words and sentences?

Are there ways to ensure that mixed language audiences (quite common in Asia) can understand us better? Is there a certain accent or way of speaking that is easier to understand than others?

In this unique, interactive presentation, speech and language specialist, Heather Hansen, will share the secrets to being understood by everyone, everywhere, every time in English. These tips are equally important for both native and non-native speakers speaking in international environments.

It's time for all of us to clean up our English pronunciation - the little things that can make a big difference to our speaking success!

You will learn:

• Shocking statistics about the global use of English
• What your problem areas might be and how to fix them
• The 3 things you must do correctly to be understood by everyone
• How to adapt your speech for different international audiences
• Why even native speakers need to pay attention to the way they speak

APSS Professional Member Heather Hansen is a speech, language and communication expert, specialising in International English pronunciation. She is founder of Singapore-based Hansen Communication Lab Pte Ltd, a corporate training firm helping professionals to speak more clearly, correctly and confidently. Her most recent project has been the development of an online learning portal for international pronunciation: English Pronunciation Lab.