What is the goal of any talk, speech or presentation?

It is to have our audience fully understand and fully absorb our message.

But how do we do that?

Is it by having one, or more, or all of these?

·                     Appealing visual aids?

·                     Appropriate body language?

·                     Exact profiling of the audience?

·                     Correct pronunciation and clear articulation?

·                     Perfect grammar?

·                     Thorough understanding of the subject matter?

Though all of these are very helpful in speeches and presentations, yet we can have all of these, and still fail in our goal to fully put our message across to our audience. (It is also not putting on a drama to impress our audience.)

It is one quality that all great speakers and presenters like, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, talk-show host Oprah Winfrey and motivational guru Anthony Robbins share in common.

Many terms have been used to describe this quality: being sincere, real, authentic, genuine, charismatic, being in the flow, centred etc. The name of it is not important. What is important is the effect it creates on the audience.

The effect it creates is, to first capture and then completely hold the attention and interest of the audience throughout the talk or presentation.

We all have this natural quality or ability to capture and hold our audience’s attention and interest. We have forgotten that we have it, under the cloak of the numerous responses/roles we have created to cope with various situations and people we face daily in our lives.

Though forgotten, this ability is not lost. We have developed a way to bring out this natural ability. We call it ‘Speaking from the Heart’.

With this quality your talk or presentation will be captivating to your audience but, without it no matter how well prepared you are, how hard you try to impress your audience, or how well or clearly you speak, you’ll not be able to capture your audience’s whole attention and thereby not be able to fully put your message across.

Anyone and everyone has this innate ability – there are no exceptions. We’ll bring this quality out from you in our 2-day course, guaranteed, or your money back.

You prepare and make three speeches or presentations, which are recorded in DVD format for you to keep as a reference and a refresher after the course.

Register for the course as soon as possible, as the class has been restricted to 12 participants, so as to give all participants ample time to make speeches or to present.

"This course is the best course I have ever attended."

“Teaching us how to speak with heart and feeling is the most useful part of the course because this has truly brought up the true presentation skill of mine.”

“It builds up my confidence. Unlike other courses, this course enables me to find my true self & worthiness.”

“Speaking with the 'inner' self allowed me to realise the importance of speaking with sincerity.”

“Speaking from the heart helped me to speak without any notes at any time when speaking or making presentations.”

“Centring myself really brings out the truth within myself.”

“Speak with feelings is very special and help me realise myself.”

“Speak from my heart helped me speak with feeling and more frankly but not offensively.”

“The whole course was useful especially the part that brings out feelings that was almost forgotten.”

“Speaking from the heart taught me to ‘open up’.”

“Speaking from the heart is very useful to capture audience's attention.”

“Speaking with feelings and profiling the audience helps me to speak better."

K. Rajamanikam (Raja) has 18 years experience training adults in English and Business Communication skills. He has been conducting both spoken and written communication courses for clients such as MINDEF, HDB, NEA, ITE, CAAS and PSB. Some of these courses are:

Participants to Raja’s courses have consistently rated him as ‘Excellent’.

He is also a local author who has published more than 60 books including fiction and supplementary books for the English Language.

Merle Celine Magness holds a BA (Distinction) from the University of South Australia in Communication and Media Management and has been trained as a trainer in The Singapore Institute of Management’s Course Leader’s Course.

She also holds a certificate in ‘Teaching English as a 2^nd or Other Language’ from the Regional English Language Centre.

She is experienced in conducting English Languages Courses for adults in the public and private sector and she has written English educational supplementary books for Primary and Pre-University levels.

Participants in her courses have commented that she is a good trainer and is fun and friendly.