Webinars

Webinar: New Year Special: How to Develop Confidence and Public Speaking to Build Your Career Path as a Global Elite

Date: 16 January 2020

Do you want to know how to build self-confidence and demonstrate this key quality in interviews?

Do you want to understand why public speaking is a crucial skill sought after by multinationals?

This is a FREE webinar you must not miss.

 

For this year’s New Year Special, we are inviting Mandarin Consulting global elite coach, Xenia Angevin, to share her rich experience in helping cross-cultural candidates build confidence and public speaking skills.

 

Xenia has over fifteen years of experience as a Coach and Mentor to international clients. She is a specialist coach for career transitions which involve geography- and industry- change. Xenia also coaches clients for cross-cultural leadership, with emphasis on influencing ability, facilitation skills and executive presence. She is an expert in non-directive communication techniques. Her pragmatic understanding of the skills necessary to succeed in the working environment of today and tomorrow make her a popular choice for Mandarin Consulting candidates.

 

Webinar agenda:

1. Background of the Presenter
2. The Good News

• Having Confidence is not the same as having Competence!
• Lack of confidence as a healthy signal to improve Competencies
• There is a clear recipe for dramatically improving your Global Elite capabilities

3. The Mandarin Consulting ‘Confidence’ Plan:

• The Ingredients:
  • ‘The Big Five’ Character Traits used as key leadership predictors in Global Elite careers
  • The main Career Competencies for high performers
  • Adaptability Quotient – a key to the modern world
• The Plan:
  • How to understand, develop and obtain mastery of these Traits and Competencies
  • How to practice courage to overcome Fear
  • How to build a personal message which communicates your Strengths

4. The Spotlight on Communication Skills and Public Speaking:

• The cross-cultural differences: the Chinese and Western perspectives on Communication Skills
• Modern Public Speaking: not a performance but a key everyday Communication Skill
• Varieties of Public Speaking:
  • Speaking to inform
  • Speaking to persuade
  • Speaking on special occasion
  • Speaking in small groups
• Key techniques:
  • The ‘Pyramid of Communication’
  • Storytelling
  • Active Listening

5. Q&A