The most difficult moments at work are rarely difficult because we don't know enough. They are difficult because we have to communicate clearly when there is disagreement. Hold a boundary without damaging a relationship. Think while under pressure. Speak when the stakes are high. Lead people through conversations that may be uncomfortable. And sometimes, simply find enough space to pause, breathe, and reset.
Vocalogy offers workshops and programmes for organisations that bring together practical learning, experienced instructors, and opportunities to put new skills into practice. Whether you are planning professional development, a team learning experience, or a workplace wellbeing programme, we can work with you to create an experience that is relevant to the people in the room.
Discuss a Programme for Your OrganisationDifferent organisations come to us with different needs. Our programmes currently centre around three areas.
For people who need to express themselves clearly while navigating the realities of professional relationships. Programmes may explore areas such as assertiveness, boundaries, disagreement, difficult conversations and professional communication.
Knowing what you want to say is one thing. Being able to say it clearly when people are watching, questioning or evaluating you is another.
Not every workplace programme needs to be about doing more. Vocalogy can also develop experiential sessions around voice, breath, awareness and wellbeing.
A workshop can be interesting without changing anything on Monday morning. We are more interested in what happens afterwards.
Where appropriate, Vocalogy programmes incorporate practical exercises, scenarios, discussion, roleplay and opportunities to try new ways of responding. Participants are not simply told what to do. They have an opportunity to practise doing it.
The Art of Confident Assertion is a three-hour, hands-on workshop developed and taught by Paul Foo. Participants explore practical approaches to assertiveness and then have repeated opportunities to put them into practice through exercises and roleplay.
Paul also draws upon experiences from his long career in Singapore's legal and judicial system to illuminate what professional communication can look like when judgement, relationships and consequences matter.
The Art of Confident Assertion has been run twice by Vocalogy in small-group settings. Participants have included professionals from education, government, business, financial services and the non-profit sector, including people responsible for managing teams.
I put what I learnt into practice the very next day.Fiona T
Mr. Foo brings valuable lived experience to the table. I've learnt a lot.Yvonne P
I've been putting the tools to work in small ways around the office. The roleplay helped as well.Samantha L
It is whether something from the room travels back to work with them.
Vocalogy's organisational programmes draw upon instructors whose expertise comes not only from study, but from substantial professional experience.
Paul Foo brings almost four decades of experience in Singapore's Legal Service to Vocalogy's professional communication programmes. His career has included appointments as Judicial Commissioner and Registrar of the Supreme Court of Singapore, as well as becoming the first Dean of the Singapore Judicial College, where he helped shape the development of judicial education.
He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2019 and has also taught at the National University of Singapore.
Grace Ng is the founder of Vocalogy and a voice teacher and coach whose work explores the relationship between voice, performance and the person using it.
A former lawyer, Grace has spent two decades working with singers, speakers and professionals. Her approach combines functional voicework with perspectives from somatic practice, performance, breath, sensory awareness and her wider training in wellbeing and brain-based approaches.
Not every Vocalogy programme is taught by both Paul and Grace. Nor does every organisation need the same combination of expertise.
Some programmes, such as The Art of Confident Assertion, are developed and taught entirely by Paul. Others may draw upon Grace's expertise in voice, performance and wellbeing. Where their areas of expertise genuinely complement one another, programmes may also be developed that bring both perspectives together.
Some professional environments place particularly high demands on communication. The legal profession is one of them.
Paul's extensive experience across Singapore's legal and judicial system gives Vocalogy the opportunity to develop professional communication programmes specifically for members of the legal profession.
These may be relevant to lawyers at different stages of their careers, from younger practitioners finding their professional footing to experienced lawyers taking on greater leadership and people responsibilities.
A useful workshop should make sense in the environment participants return to. Where appropriate, existing programmes can therefore be adapted to reflect the situations, professional relationships and communication demands relevant to your organisation.
Depending on the programme, this may include:
We would rather offer a small number of thoughtful programmes than a catalogue of generic training topics.
You may already know exactly what you are looking for. Or you may simply know that your team needs help communicating more effectively, performing with greater confidence or creating some space for wellbeing. Either is a good place to begin.
Tell us about your organisation, the people who will be attending and what you would like the programme to help them do differently.
