Ascension Connex

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10/06/2023

A profound quote to internalise in the midat of current life challenges!

05/05/2020

02/05/2020

Spreading the art of a Fluent Communicator with VISUAL Arts on 24 April 2020.

31/03/2020

Whilst we are moving almoat 100% to online meetings, seminars and training, what do we need to upscale our digital content asset to be effective ?

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19/11/2019

Privileged to attend this AI Robotics conference held yesterday at Smu and hear from Keynote speakers( Mr Yeong Zee Kin, Assistant chief executive of IMDA and Mr Bob Gill, GM Arc Advisory) and industry speakers and panelists, view and important issues around AI (artificial intelligence), building trust and governance framework around the use of data. Applying our human wisdom to leverage AI cobots for industrial 4.0, working together.

Like it or not, digital transformation is here to stay and how do we use that to enhance customer experiences at seminars and workshops?

10/10/2019

With Digital transformation, how is that transforming Customer experience when it comes to Offline face to face meetings at conferences, exhibition trade shows? These meetings becomes very precious encounters, experience to businesses.

Are we engaging our sponsors, exhibitors, customers, audience in an experientrial transformation that brings superb value?

08/10/2019

Our years of experience in Customer Engagement solutions for clients at their seminars, meetings and conferences, has grown with the Digital era. From manual to digital platforms, and a hybrid of both.

The objective is to fundamentally - create a Wow customer experience in any offline face to face meeting connections. Time spent is priceless! Have we plan and execute the experience to our best?

This includes even the creative structure of props to details of an exhibition booth.

What is your customer experience strategy for your annual conference, kick off meetings, seminars ?

17/06/2019

Engaging foreign non English speaking audience in your meeting. - Professional Simultaneous interpretation equipment infrastructure and trained conference interpreters are key.

In today's fast moving digital transformation economy, invitation of guests to our live meetings, seminars and conference becomes a precious face time meeting in a venue. A productive engaging meeting with tons of content to share requires precise planning and ex*****on.

What to when we have invited guests who understands much better in their native language? Or a foreign non English speaking speaker at the event?

Using the right kind of interpretation equipment is one of the key. Venue, space, location, number of people in the room, all these are key factors to the right solution.

08/06/2019

When we invite a foreign Non English speaker expert in his own field to share his knowledge, how important is the voice of simultaneous interpreters, to convey the Essence of the message? VERY IMPORTANT!

The role of trained conference simultaneous interpreters is NOT just to interpret what the speaker said from one language to another. The entire ESSENCE of the message / messages has to be conveyed. That entails, not just content expertise research and familiarity of the terms, the grammar and the vocabulary from one language to the other.

The tonality of the voice, the emphasis of the various messages, the right time to pause as well during interpretation. These are all very important factors, that contribute to a successful Audience engagement during and in meetings. Especially when we have spent the time and money to invite foreign non English speaking speakers, and audience into a workshop, seminar, meeting or conference.

, we have years of experience to help our clients achieve predictable productive meeting outcomes in such requirements, with our solution processes.

Look out for next sharing post on how important it is to also know the various types of interpretation equipment for various meetings requirements, which are often overlooked too.

03/06/2019

Fear of public speaking? Recalled my first time in 2017 as host and facilitator to a group of ASEAN mayors and country leaders, our minister of Health in Singapore for a 2 days conference. Yes, I was nervous!
Still did a good job with loads of preparation!

What it takes to embrace the nervousness and lead the conference as host on stage and deliver the conference as facilitator?

1) Embrace the nervousness. It's OK to be nervous because we care! Do not fight it. Do not let it cripple you, that's it.

2) Prepare notes. Its okay to prepare notes. Keywords on cue cards, short pointers. Just don't read it.

3) Interact with our audience. Build rapport and know that we are all here to share content. As facilitator, the audience is the content expert, not us.

4) Speak clearly, slowly, articulation.

31/05/2019

Always a busy time now as we enter into a new quarter and strategy planning and projects into the 2nd part of the year 2019.
A team strategy meeting engaging all team members to focus during brain storming, to achieve productive, measurable outcomes does not come easy. It takes planning and creativity to achieve objectives at such meetings. How to engage and draw out the best of everyone's knowledge and creativity at work to achieve targets and goals at team meetings?

At Ascension Connex, visual facilitation is one of the many audience engagement tools we use. Think simple, probe relevant questions, think deep, use colours, use elements of pictures. Drive innovation in productive meetings.