Course Information
| Date | 17 Feb 2017, Fri |
| Time | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Venue | Royal Plaza on Scotts Singapore Hotel Including Tea breaks and International Gourmet Buffet Lunch at Award winning Carousel Restaurant (Halal Certified) |
| Fee | S$ 500 (Nett) S$ 300 (After PIC Grant of 40%) |
| Contact | Jaslyn 9767 9686 / 6278 9785 jaslyn@cbsgroup.com.sg |
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Say It Right! Pronunciation and Voice Fluency
- Improving your Voice Fluency and Speak Confidently
INTRODUCTION
“I want to sound right and leave a great impression. Say but little and say it well.”
– Gaelic Proverb
Do you struggle with getting your words out when explaining things in important situations, situations like interviews, presentations, meetings, phone or video conferences? Do you become anxious, nervous tense up, loose track of where you’re at, speak too fast, or even stutter?
If you struggle with speaking well, this course can literally transform your life. You probably know from personal experience that not being able to speak well can limit your career choices, restrict your social life, and restrict your relationships.
This course allows you to project your voice more confidently, and speak more fluently so that your thoughts and words stream together in sync helping you present your thoughts and ideas in an intelligent and precise manner.
Be a FLUENT SPEAKER and be clear in your Pronunciation for everyday use!
Key Takeaways
- Avoid common errors in voice and articulation
- Understand how to modulate your voices
- Acquire useful practice in pronunciationv
- Avoid commonly mispronounced words
COURSE OUTLINE
- Elements of voice and voice apparatus
- Improving voice volume
- Improving intonation and tonal variation
- 4Ps of vocal tone
- Impact of tone on meanings
- Maximize voice using inflection
- Pace and pausing for maximum impact
- Vowel and consonant sounds
- Fifty commonly mispronounced words
- British and American words distinguished
- Replacing “Singlish” with standard English
- Reducing mother tongue interference
- Avoiding speech fillers
- Practice sessions with sound drills both group and individual
TESTIMONIALS
“Sandra’s sessions are always highly interactive and engaging with lots of hands on experience and positive outcomes.”
“Sandra listens, analyses our needs and delivers what we need. Our participants benefited immensely.”
“Sandra has conducted several workshops for us for our heads of department and engineers. Feedback is always rated excellent.”
“A very good course to learn and improve my pronunciation in English. It is a very interactive session. The lecturer is humorous, interesting and fantastic.”
Senior Executive, Energy Management Authority
“Sandra Sandu makes the course interesting by giving good examples and practices. I am able to speak more confidently now!”
Manager, Gemplus Technologies
TRAINING METHODOLOGY
Training is engaging, practical and lively with lots of sound drills and both individual and group applications.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This is a highly popular pronunciation course specially designed for all executives and non-executives who wish to and need to improve their speech articulation and fluency for best impact.
ABOUT THE TRAINER
Sandra Sandu is an inspiring and passionate global trainer, consultant, speaker and author with 29 years track record training and consulting employees of Fortune 500 corporations in twenty countries across the Asia Pacific. Her training territory includes cities in Asia, Middle East and Australia.
Sandra graduated with a Masters degree in Education (Training and Development) distinction from the University of Sheffield University UK and a Diploma from Trinity College of Speech and Drama, UK. She is a Certified Trainer with the American Management Association (AMA) and a Licensed Trainer with Tony Buzan Centre UK in Thinking Skills, Brain Power, Creative Thinking, Innovation and Mind Mapping. Since 1993, she has been a Certified Management Consultant and is one of the rare recipients of the esteemed Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants FCMC (USA) citation.
Sandra is a well-known speaker at international conferences and has been listed in International Who’s Who Directory since 1997. Sandra has also authored an acclaimed guidebook “Getting Ahead in Your Career” Her training workshops are always rated highly with the use of accelerated learning techniques to maximize learning and recall.
Over the last twenty years, Sandra has been featured on leading television, radio and websites and has trained, consulted and inspired no less than half a million employees of key global corporations including Rolls Royce, ST Engineering, ST Aerospace, ST Marine, Honeywell, Jurong Shipyard, Sembawang Shipyard, Protex, Fugro Offshore, Shell, Singapore Refining Company, Singapore Petroleum Company, Petronas, Petronas Carigali, Petronas Pernapisan, Pertamina, Lubrizol, Castrol, BP Asia, Mc Dermott SEA, Bredero Shaw, Halliburton, MEA Holdings, Ameron Technologies, Ministry of National Development, Building Control Authority, Subana Ascendas, JTC, Worley Parsons, CPG and many more, across twenty countries.
