Greetings from ST Training Solutions!

I've enjoyed having visitors in town again this week. In the main photo on the left you can see me with Candice, who was the teacher I replaced when I first arrived in Singapore in 1983. We've remained good friends ever since, and she lives in UK now. This week she brought her 21 year old daughter Natasha to Singapore. Here we are at Equinox, where the views are really awesome. Here you can see the fantastic Marina Bay Sands, with the newly-opened Sky Park on top. I'll be taking my visitors up there later this week!

July looks like being another busy month for me, with lots of in-house workshops as well as many public workshops, plus two sets of visitors. I'm also looking forward to a well-earned break (well I think so anyway) in Rawa, one of my favourite places to rest and recuperate.

Oh yes, another reason I love July is because it's my birthday month.
Happy birthday me ;-)

Shirley

Free trial of English Grammar ONLINE programme

The way you communicate gives an impression of you, but what kind of impression? Are you spending a lot of time wondering how to put your message across effectively? Does miscommunication happen because of poor grammar or punctuation errors? Do you find people are querying your messages or asking for clarification all the time?

In most of my workshops on business writing skills, many people ask me how they can continue their learning. One thing I would definitely recommend is our online programme English Grammar ONLINE. This is a comprehensive, interactive, online programme that goes through all the main principles and rules that you need to apply in your writing. You will learn how to fix sentence construction problems and common grammatical errors; you'll learn about correct word choices; you'll clarify problems with spelling, punctuation and use of active voice. What's more, it will be explained in a way that doesn't make you feel like you're back at school.

After going through the easy-to-use English Grammar ONLINE programme, you will be able to apply the techniques to transform your writing skills, increase the impact of your writing, and make a more professional impression on your readers. How fabulous is that?

This programme costs only S$150 for a full 12 months access. You can learn more here. Better still, we offer bulk discounts for organisations who wish to buy multiple licences for their staff.

But don't take my word for it. Test it yourself. If you are in HR, Training or Learning and Development, we'll let you take this programme for a test drive. We'll give you a one week free trial so you can check it out yourself. We know you'll be impressed. Just contact Shirley to make all the arrangements by e-mailing shirley@shirleytaylortraining.com.

Don’t miss 17 July Super Early Bird deadline for our Success Seminars two-day event

S$945 to attend not one but FOUR seminars, and you get a free Success Skills book too! Yes, that's the Super Early Bird Special, which ends on 17 July. Our Success Seminars for Secretaries and Support Staff will be held on 18-19 August 2010, and it's set to be a fantastic two-day event that will equip you with lots of essential skills for your professional development.

Choose from these fabulous half-day seminars on 18 August
Don't Let Writing be Your Weakest Link with Shirley Taylor
OR How to be a Magnet for Success with Christian Chua

Assertiveness at Work with David Goldwich
OR Business Etiquette and Professional Protocol with Tina Altieri

Choose from these fabulous half-day seminars on 19 August
Effective Influencing Skills with Karen Leong
OR Time and Stress Management with Tom Abbott

Professional Image: Your Roadmap to Success with Pang Li Kin
OR Enhance your Emotional Intelligence with Tremaine Du Preez

What can we learn in half a day?
We have worked with first-class trainers to develop these comprehensive, practical, relevant, interactive seminars. Each seminar is packed with essential tools and strategies that will help you enhance your skills and become more effective and successful. You'll leave feeling inspired and motivated to make some great changes to enhance your success.

Who is it for?
These Success Seminars are designed specially for anyone in a supporting role – secretaries, administrative staff, PAs, EAs, OAs, Office Managers, any clerical and support staff wishing to develop their skills.

Find out more about the Success Seminars here, and sign up before 17 July to take advantage of this Super Early Bird special offer.

	Aha! Moment
	from Professional Image: Your Roadmap to Success

Closing words

It's always a pleasure working with my good friend Alison Lester. We enjoyed developing a new workshop together called 'Making Great Connections' and have also conducted this several times for in-house clients. We were pleased to run it as a public workshop in June. Thanks to these participants for their comments on what we feel is a very powerful workshop:

"Great workshop. Rich filling content on improvements in our daily communications. Verbal and written."
- Sunarty Ahmad, Economic Development Board

"Makes me realise that the small and subtle things about how you carry yourself, and how you speak can make a big difference to how well you connect and communicate with others."
- Christopher Han

Our next public run of this workshop is coming up on 21 October. Check it out here.

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