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Thursday, May 21st 2015
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21st May 2015 (Thu) |
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9am to 5pm |
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Concorde Hotel Function Room (f.k.a Le Meridien Hotel) Orchard Road |
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S$450 (NETT) | S$180(After PIC Cash) |
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Connect and Click Easily with People for Business, Even Those You Don't Fancy |
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Background |
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Have you ever felt uncomfortable reaching out to stranger to start a conversation? Have you ever lost an opportunity because of your hesitation to talk to someone at a business networking event? How long would you take to find a solution to this costly social insecurity?
It is often difficult to "break the ice" and start a conversation with a stranger, someone of a higher social status or someone you don't quite fancy. Yet, the reality of today's business world in a culturally diverse country like Singapore, calls for being friendly and open to all.
Finding or knowing what to talk about at the very start is not very easy. It can be socially awkward and destabilizing. No school teaches this, yet it is crucial for your social and economic survival to get comfortable to strike a friendly conversation with strangers.
If you can make a good first impression, you can form strong business ties and open up doors to bigger opportunities across cultures and sometimes, countries. Approaching and talking with a stranger can be done easily and persuasively. Even a shy and introverted professional can benefit from getting some awareness, some ice-breaking techniques to ease the process and a bit of subtlety in approaching a stranger. |
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To empower business professionals with skills, techniques and strategies for ice-breaking with ease and finesse at social events |
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- Outline social and economic benefits of ice-breaking in today's world
- Offer skills and techniques for kick-starting a cordial conversation
- Provide strategies for a deeper connections that lead bigger opportunities
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Program Outline |
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Part I: Causes of Social Anxieties and How to Manage Them
- Causes of personal, social and cultural insecurity in a social settings
- How to alleviate personal insecurities in social settings
- How to identify, acknowledge and deal with social anxieties
- The social and economic benefits of connecting and clicking with strangers
Part II: Turning the Challenge Into Business Opportunities
- Cultural sensitivities and how to make the best of situation
- 3 techniques for breaking the ice with poise and confidence
- 3 ways for preparing for events involving diverse social encounters
- The agile vs the sluggish approach to meeting and connecting with others
Part III: Overt and Covert Strategies for Connecting and Clicking with Strangers
- The sincere compliment strategy
- The radar strategy
- The echo strategy
Case studies:
- Breaking the ice with a prima-donna
- Breaking the ice with a social chameleon
- Breaking the ice with an introverted professional
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For whom |
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- Business development executives
- Sales people
- Project managers
- Executives
- SME business owners
- Project officers
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About the Trainer |
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Gideon F. For-mukwai is an award-winning speaker, trainer and facilitator with over 10 years of local and international experience from Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and North America.
In 2004, he founded XtraMile Solutions in Singapore. Since then, he has trained over 16,100 executives from organisations such as Oracle, US Social Security Administration Department, Dell, DBS Bank, People ‘s Association, National University of Singapore, Siemens, Gillette, Singapore Armed Forces, (SAF) and Great Eastern Life. He has also provided guest-lectures at Morrison University in Nevada, USA.
In the last three years, he has presented story-telling workshops for leaders from the U.S. Social Security Administration, Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce, U.S. Department of Veterans Administration, Rotary Club of Singapore, Washoe County Public Libraries in Nevada and several international professional organisations.
In 2009, he was the Champion of the Inter-University Speech Competition at the University of Nevada, Reno. In 2005, he represented Singapore in District 80 International Speech Contest in Indonesia and emerged 1st Runner up from 5 South East Asia countries. In both cases and several other major contests, he credits story telling as the decisive factor that enabled him to out speak his competition.
Gideon is a graduate from the Master's in Journalism programme at the Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada, Reno. |
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