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Creativity – It’s All In the Mind! Boosting Your Child’s Speech Engagement     Speech crafting is a careful and meticulous art. A communicator often runs through countless drafts and practices before arriving at the final piece when drafting a speech or presentation. This can be already challenging for a seasoned communicator; for a young […]

Shout it Out – Tips & Techniques to Increase your Child’s Voice Projection     Voice projection is one of the key areas that our clients/parents tend to focus on for their children regarding public speaking. It is not uncommon to receive queries on how best to increase that speaking volume or project confidence while […]

Negotiation for Kids – Learning to Persuade, Convince, and Settle from a Young Age     We commonly associate the skill set of negotiation with adults, given that it is a core skill that is utilised at work (and sometimes at home!). However, negotiation is fast gaining traction as a unique, stand-out skill for our […]

Research Your Topic – Crafting a Strong Informative Presentation     For our young communicators, being assigned a project to research and present may be one of the tougher tasks in school. From finding the correct evidence/research proof to arranging the content to engage the audience, it can be a tough ask for our younger […]

Creating a Clear Presentation – Tips on How to Arrange Information in Your Child’s Speech     We have been there before – there is just too much information that we want to include in our speech that it becomes a struggle to arrange everything into a short 10-minute speech. This is not something that […]

Maximise Your Stage Presence – Mastering Stage Positioning for Speech Excellence     Public speaking or presentations on stage go beyond the content; your delivery style as a speaker/communicator also contributes to the impression of confidence. This applies equally to our young communicators who are starting to explore the speaking stage. For them, the habit-building […]

The ABCs of Planning a Speech – Mastering Your Script!     For most young communicators, the main fear stems from the actual speech or presentation on stage. However, learners often neglect another key aspect of the communication setting – the script-crafting process. Planning a speech is not simply a moment of inspiration or built-in […]

“Can You Give Me One Second?” Question Answering Techniques for Your Child!     We have all been there – sitting in the classroom, our minds slowly moving someplace else … before our teacher’s question jolt us back! In that impromptu, unprepared setting, how do we respond confidently? Well, our young communicators are likely to […]

The Young Communicator – Public Speaking Scenarios for Kids/Teenagers     It has been a while into COVID-19, and we are starting to see some return to normalcy as face-to-face settings resume once more. For our young communicators, this would also mean a return to face-to-face communication settings that they may be required to manage, […]