Make your voice work effectively for you. Pick up practical tips to project your voice effectively, exude executive presence and poise, harness the power of breath. Learn practical voice amplification tips, ridding yourself of irritating speech fillers, and avoiding commonly mispronounced words.

Outline

1. Elements of your voice and voice apparatus

2. Improving voice volume and voice depth by breath techniques

3. Improving Intonation, modulation and resonance

4. Four Ps of vocal tone

5. Impact of tone on meanings

6. Maximize voice using Inflection, rate and pause

7. Vowel and consonant sounds

8. Commonly mispronounced words

9. British and American words distinguished

10. Replacing "Singlish" with standard English

11. Reducing Mother tongue interference

12. Tongue twisters and speech fillers

13. Practice sessions with sound drills both group and individual

Who should attend

All levels of management, executives and non-executives who have to improve their spoken capability and fluency especially legal and boardroom personnel, managers and specialist personnel, media and PR personnel, business and technical professionals, academic staff, professors, trainers, teachers, curriculum developers, admin and secretarial personnel.

Methodology

Visually stimulating guidelines, practical tips, voice and sound drills, individual and group practice sessions, and relevant video clips.

SANDRA SANDU's Profile

SANDRA SANDU FCMC, MEd

“Brilliant, engaging, practical trainer with wealth of global experience.” IBM

Sandra Sandu is an inspiring and passionate global trainer with a 29-year track record in training employees of corporations across twenty-five countries in the Asia Pacific.

More than half a million employees from leading multi-national corporations in government and government sector have benefited from her training.

Sandra has several prestigious qualifications from leading professional institutions
1. Master’s Degree in Education distinction, MEd (Training and Development) Sheffield University UK
2. Advanced Full Certificate in Training and Development ACTA all 6 modules at Institute of Adult Learning
3. Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Linguistics Regional Language Centre (RELC)
4. Specialist in English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
5. Diploma in Speech and Drama Trinity College London, UK
6. Certified Management Consultant, CMC since 1993
7. Fellow Institute of Management Consultants, (FCMC) since 2002
8. Certified Trainer, Tony Buzan Mind Mapping and Thinking
9. Certified Trainer, American Management Association
10.Certified Trainer, Multiple Intelligences Mind Resources
11.Coach, Business Thinking Systems Sydney
12.Completed Strategic HR at INSEAD School of Business, Singapore
13.Listed in International Directory of Professionals since 1997.
14.Author of "Getting Ahead In Your Career" Guidebook.

“Sandra’s sessions are always highly interactive and engaging with lots of hands on experience and positive outcomes.”

“Sandra listens, analysed 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.”