Presence and Impact Training

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Join our Public Speaking Workshops to boost your presentation skills Speakers' Circle is a fun and friendly community in Singapore where you can practise your presenting and public speaking in a group setting. These public workshops, by Victoria Mintey, run just twice per year - the time is now!

What is the #1 thing that makes people nervous before (and during!) a presentation?
I have worked with hundreds, maybe thousands of people by now. All of them smart, successful and well within their rights to be speaking on their given topic to the assembled audience. And all of them quaking in their boots.

Why? Most often here is why they are nervous:

"Because I am scared that I"ll get a question I can't answer."

NOT KNOWING something. In front of a CROWD (or worse, a CAMERA). When you are billed as THE EXPERT. Awful. Unthinkable. A fate worse than death. And yet MORE BAD NEWS...it is impossible to prepare for every question. It cannot be done.

So I am here to tell you to stop trying and try something else instead.

Get down to the "I Don't Know Gym".

Learn the best ways to repond to your audience when you don't have the answer. I've created a quick reference guide to help you get unstuck when that nightmare question does arise. Because one day it will. Head to my website, plug in your email address in the green box and I will be sharing the guide to "Not Knowing" in the June newsletter. (No spam or sharing of your info, ever.)

https://www.instagram.com/p/CpeVMTfJYq0/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

[CLOSED] SURPRISE! We're giving away 3 pairs of tickets to the Sunday 26 March 2023, 8pm performance of our upcoming show - People, Places & Things. Following a sold-out season at National Theatre and in London’s West End, this theatrical tour-de-force was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play. Featuring a stunning ensemble cast of 11 led by Sharda Harrison, Duncan Macmillan’s play is a searing exploration of a still-taboo subject, and expertly draws powerful parallels between theatre and therapy, between art and addiction. All you have to do is: 1. Follow @pangdemoniumtheatre on Instagram 2. Like and share this post on Instagram stories and tag @pangdemoniumtheatre (x2 the chance to win!) 3. Tag a friend you'd like to watch People, Places & Things with The giveaway is open to all Instagram followers living in Singapore and entries will close on Monday, 13 March 2023 2359 SGT. Winners will be contacted the next day, Tuesday 14 March 2023 by 5pm SGT.

Book your tickets today! Committed to rehab, she desperately clings on to her alter egos and imagined personas, as her world spirals into a surreal abyss. Friends, family members and fellow addicts morph into figments of fantasy, her sense of self fragments, and she is forced to ask: which version of me is the real me?

It's Christmas morning!! Or it feels like it.
Today is the day I walk back into a rehearsal room (for the first time since having my second baby during a global pandemic) to start work on a fantastic play in the sublime company of some of my favourite Singapore actors and theatre makers.

My heart is jumping for joy.

For tickets head to Sistic and look for People, Places and Things by Pangdemonium!

My favourite review to date from a client who battled her nerves and won.
"Victoria is some kind of public speaking sorceress! After meeting with her, I slept better and felt far more confident. Victoria’s coaching experience is evident in the way she tailors the session to the individual. It felt very personal and relaxed but also like we made strides as time passed." - Mellowed-out Manager at Meta

Top 5 Tips to help your Team with Presenting:
1) Normalise Nerves
2) Encourage Eye contact
3) "I don't know" is acceptable
4) Hold back your 'Hands' comments
5) Answer 3 Questions - Why? Why? & Why?

To read my full run down of advice for team leaders and managers click the link.
https://buff.ly/3Y7j815

Which of these tips will you try first?

5 Ways to Help your Team with Presenting Need help improving your team's communication and presenting skills? I hear this a lot from leaders and managers: "My team are brilliant. They are hard working, diligent, whip-smart and mega knowledgable. But....when they present they just...they don't really....their style isn't... you know....I do...

Miles of smiles from this wonderful group at IMD's OWP 2022. This was my first time running a session at IMD's flagship open programme. Once we opened up the storytelling gates we could barely get them to stop talking. We explored status, emotional intelligence, expression and personal disclosure. In other words....we got to know each other really well in a short space of time. Loved it.

Photos by Ian Teh

Maybe there was a full moon, maybe it was the coffee, maybe it was the mission of greener energy for all or the dynamic group of startup founders in attendance.

Whatever created this special sauce I want more of it. This workshop was a joy to create and run for Engie Factory and their current batch of ventures. I put them through "circuit training" focussed on jargon busting, story telling, audience hooking and core messaging. We even handed out spectacular brownies and spot prizes!

I can't wait to be back here again.