Public Speaking Group classes for adults

Introducing the World Champion Certification Programme (Public Speaking)!

The World Champion Certification Programme is a public speaking course in Singapore designed for adults / working professionals by our first Singaporean World Champion of Public Speaking, Darren Tay (who is also the youngest World Champion of Public Speaking), Founder, Managing Director and Master Trainer at the Public Speaking Academy. Tailored for adults and working professionals, the World Champion Certification Programme aims to provide its students with an introduction, exploration and enhancement of public speaking expertise and techniques through regular, group training sessions. The programme offers an engaging and holistic public speaking training programme for students to pick up effective communication skills, covering areas such as:

• Communications Foundation-Building – introduction to necessary foundation skills to enhance your communication and start building your public speaking learning journey (e.g. body language, pronunciation, enunciation, vocal variety)
• Expertise and Techniques for the Modern Workplace – learn and master relevant and effective communication skills to facilitate the growth of your potential as a confident and charismatic member of your workplace (e.g. interview skills, PowerPoint presentation skills, persuasive speech)
• Constructive and Safe Training Platform – providing a safe space for you to grow as a public speaker or effective communicator through practice opportunities, constructive feedback and immediate feedback implementation

Our Learning Methodology – Constructively Challenging & Sufficiently Safe Learning

The World Champion Certification Programme is perfect for both beginners having their first foray into the public speaking training journey and advanced speakers looking to bring their communications/presentations skills to the next level. We aim to provide our students with a sufficiently safe, but still constructive, challenging and conducive, environment for our students to learn, train and grow as individuals and as a group. The World Champion Certification Programme begins from an introduction to foundational public speaking speech techniques, specific speech genres and advanced linguistic skills; to delving further into advanced public speaking skills (e.g. body language, PowerPoint presentation skills), further speech genres and even conflict resolution techniques.

Classes are conducted as weekly, regular group training sessions, with greater emphasis on an encouraging and engaging learning environment. Unlike a one-way lecture-style of classes, our competent and passionate training team believes in a hands-on approach for optimal assimilation of public speaking skills and techniques – we believe that learning is best achieved through a maximising combination of theory and practice.

Our classes are structured based on our 30 – 70 Rule – 30% of the class time is focused on an open and engaging sharing of public speaking skills and techniques, peppered with our professional trainers’ own sharing of their personal experiences and journey; 70% of the class time is dedicated to providing our students with the safe and constructive space to practice, practice and practice their craft! The 30 – 70 Rule ensures that all our students will get a valuable opportunity to test their learning in a supportive environment, receive immediate and relevant feedback, and clarify their doubts in their public speaking learning journey. This Rule also encourages our students to take up these opportunities to speak up before a larger audience and hone their effective communication skills in each class.

Beyond this, we keep our class sizes small (maximum 12 students) to ensure that each student receives greater focus and attention to their learning and development from our trainers. The class size likewise ensures that our students get a valuable opportunity to test their learning each class in front of a sufficiently challenging group size. In line with our commitment to optimal and holistic learning, we provide our students with the printed handouts and video recordings of their practice speech deliveries, maximising their learning by providing them with an opportunity to evaluate their performance in class and identify key areas of improvement moving forward.