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Strategies for Persuasive Presentations

  • Digital Marketing & Comms
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Next Intake: 10 Jul 2025 (Thu)
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  • This module is part of Advanced Certificate in Communication Management

This programme is conducted on-campus.

Next course starts on
10 Jul 2025 (Thu) See Full Schedule
Fee
SGD1,744* (as low as SGD203.20 after maximum funding) Learn More
Duration

2 days
Weekdays (9am - 6pm)

Level
Basic

Who Should Attend

  • Entrepreneurs and business owners
  • Managers/ Leaders of strategic communication functions
  • Content strategists
  • Social media specialists
  • Marketing/ Corporate communications professionals

Overview

Presentations are vehicles to inform and persuade. Unfortunately, many presentations are forgettable because they are mundane and not captivating.

This course will help presenters be more engaging by astute analysis of the audience, as well as employ strategies that make presentations persuasive and memorable. Engaging presentation serves to articulate ideas, concepts and values to the public, investors, customers and employees. The ability to communicate with appropriate and timely information to create lasting impact and action is often absent in presentations. Experience how concepts in persuasion enable audiences to remember communication content and be moved to change attitudes and finally to act.

Learning Objectives

  • Forge a positive affinity between the speaker and the audience
  • Design attention-getting and memorable introductions and conclusion 

Topic/Structure

  • Exhibit a good reading of listeners through sound audience analysis
  • Construct a style for the speaker that is both engaging and winsome
  • Employ language that is effective for changing or reinforcing beliefs and attitudes

Assessment

As part of the requirement for SkillsFuture Singapore, there will be an assessment conducted at the end of the course.

Participants are required to attain a minimum of 75% attendance and pass the associated assessment in order to receive a digital Certificate of Completion.

Calculate Programme Fee

Click here for more infomation about SkillsFuture Credits (Not applicable for Company-sponsored participants)
For PSEA - Available only for Singapore Citizen below 31 (Not applicable for Company-sponsored participants)

Total Program Fee: SGD0.00

Fee Table

COMPANY-SPONSORED

PARTICIPANT PROFILE

SELF-SPONSORED

SME

NON-SME

Singapore Citizen < 40 years old

Permanent Resident

LTVP+

$523.20

(After SSG Funding 70%)

$203.20

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ ETSS Funding 20%)

$523.20

(After SSG Funding 70%)

Singapore Citizen ≥ 40 years old

$203.20

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ MCES Funding 20%)

$203.20

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ ETSS Funding 20%)

$203.20

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ MCES Funding 20%)

International Participant

$1,744

(No Funding)

$1,744

(No Funding)

$1,744

(No Funding)

All prices include 9% GST

Please note that the programme fees are subject to change without prior notice.

Post Secondary Education Account (PSEA)
PSEA can be utilised for subsidised programmes eligible for SkillsFuture Credit support. Click here to find out more.

Self Sponsored

SkillsFuture Credit

Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above may use their SkillsFuture Credits to pay for the course fees. The credits may be used on top of existing course fee funding.

This is only applicable to self-sponsored participants. Application to utilise SkillsFuture Credits can be submitted when making payment for the course via the SMU Academy TMS Portal, and can only be made within 60 days of course start date.

Please click here for more information on the SkillsFuture Credit. For help in submitting an SFC claim, you may wish to refer to our step-by-step guide on claiming SkillsFuture Credits (Individual).

Workfare Skills Support Scheme

From 1 July 2023, the Workfare Skills Support (WSS) scheme has been enhanced. Please click here for more details.

Company Sponsored

Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS)

  • Organisation must be registered or incorporated in Singapore
  • Employment size of not more than 200 or with annual sales turnover of not more than $100 million
  • Trainees must be hired in accordance with the Employment Act and fully sponsored by their employers for the course
  • Trainees must be Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents
  • Trainees must not be a full-time national serviceman
  • Trainees are eligible for ETSS funding only if their company's SME status is approved prior to the course commencement date. To verify your SME's status, please click here. 

Please click here for more information on ETSS.

Absentee Payroll

Companies who sponsor their employees for the course may apply for Absentee Payroll here. For more information, please refer to:

AP Guide (Non-SME Companies)
Declaration Guide (SME Companies)

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Trainers

Jack Ho
Adjunct Instructor
Singapore Management University
Jack Ho
Adjunct Instructor
Singapore Management University

Jack has two decades of experience in higher education and in the domain of communication. Having led diversity and communication initiatives in Singapore and in the United States, Jack has worked with public and private sector stakeholders on policies and programmes. His work has been featured internationally, and he’s also won multiple awards for teaching and for his work on diversity. Jack holds a PhD in Communication from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, specialising in outgroup and intergroup communication. He is a certified Change Management practitioner, a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, and a LEGO Serious Play trainer. Some of the organisations that he’s worked with include GIC, Barclays, Bloomberg, AIG, Goldman Sachs, MOE, TAFEP, AWARE, Yale-NUS, SPD, SAVH, Pink Dot Singapore, and more.

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