Interactive Keynotes

Speaking Secrets

Awesome Tricks To Get Your Message Across

5 Reasons Why Presentations Fail

And how to avoid them and succeed

Raise Your Resilience

How To Get Going When The Going Gets Tough

How to Design Your 5-million View TEDx Talk

Crafting a TEDx talk that matters to the world

Confidence? Where Got Confidence?

How to speak up powerfully to your boss, customers, colleagues and other stakeholders

You’re on a conference call. You’ve got an important opinion to share. You wait for the right moment: maybe a pause in the conversation. You listen as others exchange ideas back and forth. Finally the right moment comes! You lean forward and open your mouth… and then you close it. The call ends and you still haven’t said it.

Why is it so hard to speak up? We’re good at our job. We’ve got ideas to share, but when it comes to sticking our neck out and saying what we think, we keep quiet. It’s all about fear, isn’t it? Fear of mistakes and looking foolish. So how do we overcome this challenge so that we can speak up with confidence?

In this humorous and lively talk, Marianna shares with you her own funny experiences speaking up in Mandarin and Bahasa Malay. You’ll hear stories of amazing people who have overcome their shyness to become successful communicators. And best of all, you’ll discover their secrets and learn great tips so that you can contribute to any conversation with complete confidence!

Highlights

• The surprising truth about ‘Small Abang’ and other confident speakers.
• The top 3 reasons for not speaking up, and why you shouldn’t believe them!
• If I can do it, so can you: My major Malay mistakes – and how I survived!
• Local English, okay lah! But see first. See how.
• The one secret to speaking up without fear.

Raise Your Resilience

How To Get Going When The Going Gets Tough

We all get caught up in the stressors of life: job frustrations, financial worries, people problems, health issues, personal disappointments, and so many others.

When these stressors leave us feeling frustrated, disappointed and just plain tired, we become less resourceful and may resort to complaining. However, we all know people who face tremendous hardship, but have an optimistic and positive outlook. If we use their tools and strategies, we too can feel passionate, joyful and inspired despite whatever challenges we are facing.

In this lively, hands-on workshop, Marianna Pascal, award-winning speaker, best-selling author and communication skills trainer, will share her personal journey from hitting rock bottom to finding the 2 keys to bouncing back from hardship. With great humour and group activities, participants will reflect on their own lives and walk away with proven tools to help them be resilient whenever the going gets tough.

Highlights

• Identify what actually makes us happy – and what prevents it
• Understand and practice the one thing most professionals crave
• Recognise 2 simple ways to bounce back from hard times
• See and be more accepting of the way things are
• Use simple tools to feel positive despite unfair circumstances

5 Reasons Why Presentations Fail

And how to avoid them and succeed

Have you ever spent a huge amount of time collecting data, organising information and arranging slides to only to find a distracted audience checking their phones and leafing through notes while you present?

Have you ever had your senior management audience interrupt your presentation and take control by asking questions, reducing your confidence along the way?

Why do so many competent presenters fail to engage and impress their audience or achieve their desired result?

In this keynote, you’ll learn the 5 bad choices so many professionals make in their presentations. You’ll also see how easy they are to correct once you are aware of them and their impact.

Highlights

• Where’s your bottom line?
• Are your slides your enemy?
• What do you want them to remember?
• Are you buried under numbers?
• Do your answers meet audience expectations?

Speaking Secrets

Awesome Tricks To Get Your Message Across

In this lively keynote, the audience learns and practices some of Marianna’s best communication secrets. These secrets will help you speak on the spot, in presentations and when meeting new people.

Highlights

• Pronunciation 101: It’s not about your accent!
• Manage your emotions and think clearly under pressure.
• Listen and determine core concerns so you can determine the purpose of the message.
• Awesome formulas to answer unexpected questions without rambling
• How to make small talk without feeling awkward

How to Design Your 5-million View TedX Talk

Crafting a Tedx Talk that matters to the world

What message do you have that matters?  Not the message you think people need to hear, but the one that your audiences seem to gobble up as if they’ve been starving for it? What’s the one discovery you’ve made that leaves audiences feeling empowered and in control of their futures.

These were questions I asked myself to craft my second Tedx Talk. Once I determined the message that mattered, I used my TED consultant’s advice to craft the story that would reach a young global audience.  In this session Marianna will walk you through these steps so that you can start preparing your 5-million-view TedX during the session.

• Start with a Tedx mindset
• Your single idea
• The trojan horse
• A discovery journey
• Holding the attention of a distracted world