Your Welcome Pack

Congratulations on making history! This may surprise you. Less than 1% of the world's population, including academia, the business community and corporate world have gone through any form of training or coaching in Public Speaking. So, you are making history and we celebrate you.

Getting Started

The most important item to bring for this iconic empowering journey is a refreshed you! The truth is a tired body or fatigued mind is of no use in a learning environment. Please ensure that the day(s) leading to the commencement of the programme, you do what it takes to avoid stress and not skip your daily "Me Time" i.e. time to yourself.

Retention

Our years of experience has repeatedly proven that attendees of conferences, workshops and seminars tend to misplace handbooks, workbooks and publications issued at such events. However, they forever cherish their favourite diary and/or notebook. Therefore, we implore you to bring that favourite notebook of yours along so you can "ink" those powerful nuggets and learning points. This is pivotal to retention of what you learn as people retain 50% of what they see as opposed to 10% of what they hear!

In-House Rules

1. No phone must be seen or heard in the Training Room. Phones and tablets cannot be placed on the tables or heard ringing or vibrating. This is a guideline that is strictly enforced.

2. In order to receive the Certificate of Completion and more importantly to optimise the efficacy of this learning experience, participants must fully attend all sessions in their entirety and all assignments must be completed and submitted in a timely fashion.

3. It is important that all and sundry are punctual so as to avoid any disruption or any inconvenience to other participants.

Dress Code

The recommended dress code is "Business Casual" also known as "Smart Casual". Most of those who take public speaking courses primarily utilise their public speaking skills in the discharge of their duties and fulfilment of their roles in their careers and business endeavours. Thus, we suggest that your attire should be professional in appearance and suitable for attending a business meeting.

Pre-Course Assignments

Your personality type and personality traits have everything to do with nervousness, anxiety and how you perceive your audience. Please click here to take a FREE Personality Type Test. Study the results and attributes of your personality type. During your first session, you may be required to make a comprehensive presentation on your findings!

Be prepared to give a 3-minute extemporaneous presentation about yourself. You choose what aspects about yourself you cover in your presentation.

Pick four (4) new English words of your choice and learn the following about them:

a) Correct pronunciation

b) Spelling

c) Meaning (with comprehensive explanation)

d) Application (demonstrate how each word can be used in a sentence).

You will give a 5-minute presentation about your company, institution or organisation. This presentation must be made on the first day of the course and does not have to be extemporaneous. In the event that you do not have a company, institution or organisation to speak about, your 5-minute presentation can be about your country of origin.