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Presenting with Confidence

In a world where attention is fleeting and clarity is king, the ability to present your ideas with confidence, precision, and presence is a career-defining skill. Whether you're pitching to clients, influencing stakeholders, leading a team, or speaking at a conference—how you present can be just as important as what you say.

"Presenting with Confidence" is a dynamic, hands-on program designed to transform nervous speakers into confident communicators and competent presenters into captivating storytellers. This immersive experience goes beyond theory, equipping you with real-world tools to structure your message, engage diverse audiences, and deliver with impact—every time.

This program is for professionals who are ready to stop hiding behind slides and start standing out. Whether you're preparing for your next big pitch or simply want to speak with more confidence in daily interactions, this workshop will help you show up, speak up, and shine.

Don't just deliver a presentation—make an impact!

Objective

At the end of this highly interactive workshop, successful participants will learn to:

• Command attention from the first word
• Design memorable and meaningful messages
• Plan, organise and construct an effective presentation
• Use body language, voice, and visuals to amplify your delivery
• Deliver a clear, compelling and confident presentation
• Overcome nervousness and anxiety when presenting to large or senior group
• Hold audience's attention throughout your speech
• Win over your audience with a compelling story
• Handle tough questions and unexpected moments with poise
• Ensure your audience walks away remembering your key message
• Handle questions and answers with confidence
• Manage difficult participants and unexpected situations with confidence
• Master techniques for impromptu speaking

Outline

Day 1

Presenting YOU
• Be aware of self
• Identify your strengths and areas of development.
• Understand the fundamentals of an effective presentation
• Recognize the Dos and Don’ts of a confident speaker

Planning an Effective Presentation
• Define your purpose
• Understand the different types of audience styles
• Perform a stakeholder analysis
• Plan, construct and organise your speech with the correct structure
• Components of a Powerful Open, Body & Close

Making an Impactful Delivery
• Make your first impression count
• Learn effective strategies to grab your audience’ attention
• Use facts and evidence effectively to persuade your audience
• Deliver your message coherently, convincingly and compellingly

Engaging Your Audience Physically & Virtually
• Speak with passion and conviction
• Use positive non-verbal language to captivate your audience
• Use effective story telling techniques to engage your audience
• Deliver your speech with confidence and enthusiasm

Day 2

Designing Effective Visuals
• The 6X6 Rule
• Create concise messages
• Use effective graphs and images
• Select the appropriate font and typeface

Improving Your Vocal Quality
• Effective techniques to warm up your voice
• Develop an effective voice
• Create vocal variety in your speech
• Master clear articulation, enunciation and pronunciation
• Use the correct breathing technique

Managing Fear and Anxiety
• Understand Perception vs Reality
• Recognize the causes of nervousness
• Learn tips and techniques to overcome nervousness
• Master the superhero pose

Handling Q&A with Confidence
• The 4Cs of Q&A
• Manage difficult audience situations with confidence
• Learn strategies for impromptu speaking
• Pulling it altogether to work for you!

Who should attend

This course is suitable for all levels of staff including senior and mid-managers, supervisors, executives, frontline staff and those who seek to improve their professional skills in business communication.

Methodology

Highly Experiential with bite size lectures, individual practice and group discussions, presentations, multi-channel feedback, written exercises, video clips.

• Day 2: All participants will come prepared with a 4-5 min presentation (+ 3 min Q&A) preferably on a work-related topic, with 4-5 PowerPoint visuals.
• All presentations will be recorded using participant’s smart devices for further analysis and self-reflection

Maximum 15 participants

Testimonials

Very inspiring. Very Clear with our objective. Very informative.

Very engaging and had my full attention, knows the subject very well.

Very good experience and benefit me. Thanks for Betty bring such wonderful training to us.

I have realized what my issues in public speaking are, thank you for assisting in identifying them. You have an amazing, calming presence, thank you for helping me, very informative.

Learnt a lot from Ms Betty on presentation skills.

In-House training for Bombardier Business Aircraft

Profile of Betty Kan-Sekine

Betty Kan-Sekine is a Certified Professional Trainer (IPMA, UK), a Certified NeuroLinguistic Programming Practitioner (NFNLP, USA) and a certified Metaplan Facilitator (Metaplan, Germany). She is also an Associate Lecturer with the Singapore Institute of Management (Recipient of the SIM 2015 Teaching Award) and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Betty was certified by Nobel Prize nominee, Tony Buzan as a ThinkBuzan Licensed Instructor and an iMindMap Advanced Instructor. Betty is a Certified Instructor of ExperienceInnovation™|Learn in Design Thinking. Betty is recognized as an Adult Education Professional by SkillsFutureSG of the government of Singapore. Betty holds certification as an ACTA-accredited trainer. She graduated with honors from San Francisco State University.

Prior to her current role, Betty was a banker in San Francisco and held a California Securities Broker License, Series 7 & 63. She was subsequently appointed as Director of Client Services at a litigation law firm in the United States to manage the Asian clientele market due to her unique trilingual capability. Her passionate customer centric attitude won her team a prestigious Bronze Medal award for outstanding achievement in Service Excellence by the World Journal in the USA. She has appeared on multiple radio talk shows for AM1450 in San Francisco and FM938 Live! in Singapore. Her articles were published in the Singapore Straits Times as well as India’s Hindustan Times. Her corporate experiences span across major industries in the aviation, financial and legal sectors.

Some of her participants were from Apple South Asia Pte Ltd, Carrier Global, Astellas Pharma Singapore, MSD Korea Ltd, Here Solutions APAC, Wharf T & T (Hong Kong), Drydocks World Southeast Asia (Government of Dubai), National University of Singapore, INSEAD SG Business School (Executive Coaching), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Enterprise Singapore, Housing and Development Board, Wildlife Reserve Singapore, Singapore Police Force, Singapore Prison Service, Changi Airport Group, Jurong Town Corporation, Singapore Tourism Board, Health Promotion Board, Ministry of Home Affairs, Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore, Land Transport Authority, United Overseas Bank, Bank of Singapore, RHB Bank Singapore, Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, UMC Semiconductors, Singapore Refining Company Pte Ltd, ComfortDelGro Corporation Ltd & KPMG LLP, among many others.

Betty enjoys a diverse cultural background having lived in the US and Japan for 17 years. Her outstanding professionalism and rich working experiences have helped her develop valuable life skills in Business Communication, Leadership & Management, Innovation & Creativity, Client Services and Personal Effectiveness. She believes in the power of maximizing one’s potential by improving and changing oneself from the inside out. Her passion is in helping individuals be the best they can be.