People Speaking With Power

I received a good number of email as a result of the blog I posted yesterday titled “Speak with Power”.

Some asked me for proof that the “Speak with Power” workshop and my “SpeakRight” formula works.

So, let me share what some of those whom I had the privilege of coaching and mentoring on public speaking and oral presentation say.

Dr. Felix Trongco, Department of Education (DepEd) director for Alternative Learning Systems, texted the following message to me just a few days after he completed this workshop I conducted in Cagayan de Oro. He said:

“"At the 11th hour today, I was asked to represent my absent chief in a meeting w/ DedEd NCR top brass and present concerns/issues in 3 minutes. God! 3 x 3 is very powerful, delivered with ease, confidence and credibility".

“Three by three” is part of the “SpeakRight” formula my students learn under my mentorship and coaching.

Early this year, I received a similar message via email from the Cagayan Valley Regional Director of the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA), Mrs. Mila Rimando. She wrote:

“In the afternoon, right after the seminar, I was asked to speak before members of the press from Manila who were visiting Tuguegarao. I was not told that I was to speak to the group, but I did so with flying color, thanks to what I have learned from you. Now, I have no more fear of speaking before publics even if given only little time to prepare.”

Ambassador Alexander Yano, former Armed Forces Chief of Staff who was later named envoy to Brunei, had invited me to conduct workshops for Army Officers nationwide. He had this observation after I completed the rounds:

““Archie has helped many of our senior officers in the AFP conquer their fear of public speaking and facing the media. This has resulted in a better image both for our officers and the AFP as a whole.”

From the private sector, popular stock market analyst Astro del Castillo (also president of First Grade Holdings), made the following comment after gracing many of my mentoring and coaching activities:

“Mr. Inlong works wonders with the speaking abilities of his students. They have become not just confident speakers but powerful communicators.”

Meanwhile, a dedicated and hardworking principal from Iloilo province, Miss May Baustista, posted this message for me in FaceBook after taking part in the workshop. She said:

““ I am proud to say that ‘I am not afraid anymore’. Thanks, Archie, for the encouragement.”

“I am not afraid anymore!” is what most participants shout on Day 2 of the workshop. Usually, the jubilant shout is blurted out after discovering that the “SpeakRight” formula works for them, too.

Finally, may I share what a former president of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) says about the workshop, the skills and the processes I share with my students. Lawyer Jovy Salazar is an Undersecretary in the Department of Justice today and this is what he says:

“I believe that Mr. Inlong is one of the leading mentors in public speaking in the country today. His techniques and processes may be simple, but definitely world-class. Take it from one who has used his methods in international forums.”

Undersecretary Salazar made an important point. The techniques and processes I share are very, very simple. I shun the complicated. What is complex does not work in today’s world. And these simple techniques and processes are applauded even in the global setting.

I have shared these learning and experience I have acquired over the past three decades with members of the Cabinet, Ambassadors, Chiefs of Staff and senior officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, business and political leaders, local government executives and some of our Legislators. I believe they have found what I have shared very useful.

Several government and business organizations have also benefitted from this workshop which I have done mostly in collaboration with the Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication. These include the National Economic Development Authority, the Department of Education, the Department of Agrarian Reform, the Department of Health, United Laboratories, Monsanto, the Cagayan Valley Association of Regional Directors, the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, the Bases Conversion Development Authority, the League of Cities of the Philippines and the League of Municipalities of the Philippines.

The Board of Directors of my company has decided that the workshop should no longer be exclusive to a select group of personalities.

As a result of the decision, we are planning a series of public seminars. Hopefully, we can help many ordinary people Speak with Power and thus improve their careers, their service to God and people, and their lives in general.