High Performance Presentations Coaching (previously known as Executive Presentations Coaching). He’d been through it before – presentation courses, frameworks, international trainers. He even had a preferred provider – someone he’d worked with, and requested again. But this time, HR suggested a different path. A fresh approach. One-on-one. Tailored to how he thinks, what he presents,...
“Connirae isn’t well…contact her.” The words are faint, yet urgent, coming to me as if in a dream. I wake after falling asleep on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Colorado. I rub my eyes and dismiss the words. After all, I’m about to meet Steve and Connirae Andreas, who will be teaching at the...
Led by Wan Abdul Matiin and Tammy Selvam – both with backgrounds in education prior to joining corporate L&D – we are in the process of upgrading our Level 1 and Level 2 evaluation forms, reporting processes, visualisation tools, and templates. These enhancements are scheduled for testing this quarter and are expected to be in...
Since early 2023, we have been integrating AI into our programmes – beginning with prompt-based exercises and progressing to fully customised AI assistants. Late last year, a client asked us to design an AI assistant for a customised programme – but with a catch: they wanted it to be based on their internal AI platform....
In The Business Storyteller™ programme, we begin with a simple yet powerful exercise. Participants are asked to stand on one side of the room if they believe that they are good storytellers, and on the other if they are not. The room is usually divided. This exercise is repeated at the end of Day 2,...
A glimpse into the subtleties of facilitating across cultures. We recently delivered our Compact Slides & One-Pagers programme for a group of senior leaders at a telecommunications company in Eastern Europe. While our team has worked with European audiences before, this was our Tammy Selvam’s first attempt at facilitating a session in Poland. From the start,...
A strong business presentation contains energy that can propel us forward. We should not underestimate basics. Each of us progresses in our careers and in our lives by mastering basics. We changed the name of our programme from ‘Effective Presentation Skills’ when it was first designed and delivered in 1994, to Presentations Alive! a couple of years...
What happens when your key contact suddenly leaves in the middle of a multi-programme engagement? That’s exactly what we experienced with a global energy company last year. In late 2023, we agreed on six programme runs for 2024, including Presentations Alive! and The Case Maker. The first session was delivered successfully in August 2024. A week later,...
When we began training two popular F&B retail chains, I thought I knew what to expect. I was wrong – in a good way. In the first, a beloved local name turned international success, participants came in with wide eyes and open hearts. New to learning and development, especially soft skills, they brought a startup’s...
During a two-day The Case Maker™ programme with a global Oil & Gas company, one participant experienced a breakthrough that changed the effectiveness of her work. On Day 1, just before lunch, she told the group she’d be returning late after meeting with a senior stakeholder. She had been trying – unsuccessfully for six times...