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International Speech and Table Topics Contest 2014

Date:
Mon, 10/02/2014 – 6:00pm10:00pm
Sheraton Towers Hotel, Scotts Road (Newton MRT)
Members Only
6:00 – 6:30pm: Contestant Registration
6:00 – 7:00pm: Dinner and Networking
7:00 – 8:45pm: International Speech Contest 2014
9.00 – 9.45pm: Table Topics Contest 2014
9:45 – 10:00pm: Award Presentation
For enquiries, please contact us at enquiry@toastmasters.org.sg
Speech contests are a Toastmasters tradition. Each year thousands of Toastmasters compete in the Humorous, Evaluation, Tall Tales, Table Topics and International speech contests. Competition begins with club contests and winners continue competing through the area, division and district levels. The International competition has two additional levels — semifinal and international.
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Workshop | Acquiring Negotiation Skills for Success

Date:
Mon, 27/01/2014 – 6:00pm10:00pm
Sheraton Towers Hotel, Scotts Road (Newton MRT)
Guest Fee S$20
Speaker
Jeffrey Williams, jffrwilliams708@gmail.com
Introduction
Many situations arise where you need to influence the behavior or attitudes of managers, superiors, colleagues, customers, clients, suppliers and subordinates. This calls for good negotiation skills. Often, you either do not have or do not wish to use positional power to negotiate for success.
This workshop enables you to develop the skills necessary for all negotiation situations whether with your clients, managers or colleagues.
Learning Objectives
• Become an effective negotiator in any situation
• Building happier and healthier relationships with the people around you
• Uncover your communications strategy for effective negotiation skills and people management
• How to leverage on a win-win situation to your advantageWorkshop Outline Persuasive negotiation – challenges and key characteristics
• Learn what is preventing you from achieving good negotiation skills
• Understand the difference that makes a difference between people who excel in the art of negotiation and people who do not
How to overcome fear of rejection and failure
• Understanding the power of conditioning
• Turning fear into feedback for improvement Secrets to building powerful first and lasting impression with anyone
• Learn to connect and establish rapport with anyone whom you have just met within seconds
• Leveraging on all the 3 different modes of communication for maximum influence- Words, Tonality, Body Language
• Negotiate confidently with anyone you meet
• Negotiate in a win-win situation