It’s been splendid to be carrying out vital communications-boosting work in glorious Singapore over the past week.
And it’s been wonderful to take part in a Presidential Summit, while working in the equadorial paradise of Singapore.
(There’s more on my Singaporean summit with the President later in this update.)
But I should emphasise at the outset – as the Donald Trump-Kim Jong Un summit gets under way in Singapore – that rumours that the American President has actually been taking one-to-one lessons from an Australian communications expert visiting Singapore have been vehemently denied.
Such lessons would clearly do President Trump the world of good as he seems to be having trouble communicating with even the easiest people to get along with and connect with in the world – the Canadians!
President Trump is staying at Singapore’s Shangri-La Hotel, and the rumours that he is getting one-to-one tuition on “Great Answers To North Korean Questions” suddenly mysteriously began circulating after the publication of this photo.
The photo was snapped outside the Shangri-La Hotel just as an Australian communications expert happened to be passing with a copy of his new disc – which can be played on CD and MP3 players – called “Great Answers To Tough Questions At Work”.
The CD/MP3 disc has been produced by the Amazon company, Audible.
Those who get hold of it are able to hear every golden word of the written version of the book “Great Answers To Tough Questions At Work” published by Wiley and read aloud for you by the author himself.
The disc is available at:
And the written version of the book is available at:
But a spokesman for Michael Dodd denied that any lessons for Donald Trump had taken place.
The spokesman said: “Mr Dodd is delighted to have many keen-to-learn, keen-to-improve students in high positions and destined for high positions around the world.”
However those who benefit from Mr Dodd’s keynote addresses to conferences on “Great Answers To Tough Questions” and those who take part in his master classes and one-to-one sessions do have to demonstrate a strong willingness to learn and an interest in being helpful to their audiences.
“While Mr Dodd has taken on many challenging cases with astounding success, it is yet to be proven that the current American President has the rigorous qualities required to benefit from such communications-boosting sessions.
“However all those who think they do meet the pre-session requirements are welcome to apply by email or discuss their possibilities of being approved on michael@michaeldoddcommunications.com or by phone on +44 7944 952835″
MESSAGE ON THE REAL SINGAPORE PRESIDENTIAL SUMMIT
Meanwhile is my solemn duty to confess that I did take part in a summit with the President in Singapore.
This was a with the President with REAL heart, REAL leadership qualities and REAL hair!!!
The summit took place in the Regent Hotel in Singapore which is located in the same part of town as the hotels where the American and North Korean leaders are respectively staying.
The REAL presidential summit was with President Shirley Taylor who is President of the Global Speakers Federation.
This is the umbrella organisation which represents we professional speakers around the world.
President Shirley, as I knew from her previous meetings when she spoke with the Professional Speaking Association in London, is a true world leader – who has written a number of books on communications, amongst others.
But as you can see from the Presidential Photo below – taken inside Singapore’s Regent Hotel – she was graciously prepared to accept another communications book from another speaker.
President Shirley is a ripsnorting success story having transmogrified from “Shirley from Sheffield” to “Shirley from Singapore”!
She is living testament to the idea of setting your sights and standards high, communicating brilliantly and getting to where you want to be as a result.
She’s been to Canada without causing any uproar with those nice laid-back reasonable Canadians who do produce fine professional speakers.
If you strive to communicate and connect more like President Shirley than President Donald – in a modest, good-humoured and charming way – you will more popular with everyone – including Canadians – than you ever imaged!