IAF Singapore

23/09/2026

🚨 Registration Closes: 23 September 2026, 2330hrs.

⏰ Final Call — Own Your Conversation Starts Tomorrow

👉🏽 If your work sits in L&D, HR, management, leadership, coaching, facilitation or training, tomorrow's session was built for you. Kim Pong Lim will guide participants through the SoundWave framework to uncover the conversational patterns already shaping how they lead, coach and develop others — and build the range to respond with far greater intention.

🗣️ The people you lead and develop deserve a version of you that chooses its voice deliberately, not by default.

‼️ Last chance. Don't miss this one.

🗓️ 24 September 2026, 2:00pm, SSA Academy @ Lifelong Learning Institute. Register now 👇🏽

Facilitation isn't just technique — it's YOU. Using SoundWave, explore the voices you rely on, avoid and choose in conversations.

22/09/2026

🚨 Last 2 Days!
📈 Performance Doesn't Improve Until the Conversation Does

💬 Nurturing potential and improving performance both run through the same channel: how you talk to people, and how well that talk is actually received.

📉 A coach who advises too early can strip ownership from the person they are meant to be developing. A manager who tells when the moment called for asking can shut down the very initiative they are trying to build. A trainer who fills every silence can rob a learner of the space they needed to think.

🧠 None of this is intentional. It's habitual — and habits, by definition, operate outside conscious choice.

🌊 SoundWave gives professionals in HR, leadership, coaching and facilitation a precise language for these patterns, and a framework for expanding beyond them. The result isn't just better conversations. It's people who grow faster, trust more, and perform with greater ownership.

👨🏻‍🏫 This is the exact work Kim Pong Lim will guide in "Own Your Conversation" — a practical session for anyone whose role depends on getting the best out of others.

🚨 Last 2 days left to secure your seats!

🗓️ 24 September 2026, 2:00pm | SSA Academy @ Lifelong Learning Institute. Register here: 👇🏽

Facilitation isn't just technique — it's YOU. Using SoundWave, explore the voices you rely on, avoid and choose in conversations.

21/09/2026

🛠️ The Skill Behind Every Other Skill

🗣️ Every leadership model, coaching framework and training programme shares one dependency: CONVERSATION.

📚 You can build the best strategy, design the sharpest curriculum, or coach with the clearest intent — but if the conversation doesn't land, none of it moves. Potential stays unrealised. Performance plateaus. Trust never fully forms.

🏄 SoundWave exists because of this exact gap. It's a conversational intelligence framework that helps you see the voices you rely on, the ones you avoid, and the impact both are having on the people you lead, coach and train — often without you realising it.

👥 For anyone in L&D, HR, management, leadership, coaching or facilitation, this isn't a soft skill. It's the mechanism through which every other skill gets delivered.

🖼️ Kim Pong Lim, Founder and CEO of StrengthsAsia and Global Partner of SoundWave Global, brings this framework to Singapore on 24 September in "Own Your Conversation."

🚨 Last 3 days left to secure your seats!

🗓️ 24 September 2026, 2:00pm | SSA Academy @ Lifelong Learning Institute. Register here: 👇🏽

Facilitation isn't just technique — it's YOU. Using SoundWave, explore the voices you rely on, avoid and choose in conversations.

14/09/2026

🗣️ The One Question Every Coach, Facilitator or HR Professional Should Ask About Their Own Talk

❓ Here's a question worth sitting with before your next session:

💁🏽‍♂️ When a client, participant or employee last pushed back on you — what was your instinctive response?

🤔 Did you ask a question, or did you explain yourself? Did you challenge, or did you soften? Did you fill the silence, or let it sit?

🗯️ Most practitioners answer this question the same way every time, without realising it. That instinctive response is your default voice — and it's shaping outcomes in every session you lead, whether or not you're aware of it.

👁️‍🗨️ The goal isn't to have a "correct" response. It's to have a choice — the flexibility to meet each moment with what it actually needs, rather than what you habitually offer.

💯 This is the exact territory "Own Your Conversation" is built to explore. Kim Pong Lim will guide coaches, facilitators and HR professionals through SoundWave.

🗓️ 24 September 2026, 2:00pm, SSA Academy @ Lifelong Learning Institute. Register here:👇🏽

Facilitation isn't just technique — it's YOU. Using SoundWave, explore the voices you rely on, avoid and choose in conversations.

10/09/2026

🚨 🐣 Early Bird Offer Ends Tonight, 10 September 2026, 2330hrs!

🤷🏽‍♂️ Why the Best Facilitators and HR Leaders Aren't the Best Talkers — They're the Most Aware

🗣️ Talent in this profession isn't measured by how well you speak. It's measured by how precisely you read a moment and choose your response.

💪🏽 The strongest facilitators aren't the ones with the most polished delivery — they're the ones who notice when a challenge is needed instead of a question, when silence would serve the room better than another prompt, when advice would take ownership away rather than support it.

🛠️ That precision doesn't come from talent alone. It comes from awareness — a clear, unflinching understanding of your own default patterns, and the discipline to set them aside when the moment calls for something else.

💁🏽‍♂️ This is the real differentiator in coaching, facilitation, OD and HR work. Not eloquence. Awareness, paired with range.

🚀 "Own Your Conversation" with Kim Pong Lim is built to develop precisely this — using the SoundWave framework to help practitioners identify their own conversational instincts and expand beyond them.

🗓️ 24 September 2026, 2:00pm, SSA Academy @ Lifelong Learning Institute.

🎟️ Register Now! 👇🏽

Facilitation isn't just technique — it's YOU. Using SoundWave, explore the voices you rely on, avoid and choose in conversations.

06/09/2026

❌ What Coaches and Facilitators Get Wrong About Their Own Communication (SoundWave Data)

💁🏽‍♂️ Here's an uncomfortable truth for anyone whose profession is built on communication: self-perception and reality rarely match.

📊 According to SoundWave's research, people consistently believe they're offering solutions and explaining themselves at rates that don't match how they're actually heard. Meanwhile, the most socially risky voices — Probe, Critique and Correct — are used far less often than practitioners assume, on average showing up as a dominant voice only 6% of the time.

👩🏼‍🏫 If your work involves coaching, facilitating or advising others, this data should give you pause. The gap between how you think you communicate and how you're actually experienced isn't a minor discrepancy — it's the difference between a session that lands and one that doesn't.

🧘🏻‍♂️ Awareness is the entire craft. And awareness of your own patterns is the part most practitioners skip.

👉🏽 In "Own Your Conversation," Kim Pong Lim will use the SoundWave framework to help coaches, facilitators and HR professionals close exactly this gap — moving from assumption to genuine self-awareness.

🗓️ 24 September 2026, 2:00pm, SSA Academy @ Lifelong Learning Institute.

🐣 Early Bird Offer is On! Register Now! 👇🏽

Facilitation isn't just technique — it's YOU. Using SoundWave, explore the voices you rely on, avoid and choose in conversations.

04/09/2026

🤑 What Poor Communication Is Really Costing Your Training and Development Outcomes

📝 You can design the perfect programme, build the right curriculum, and still watch the outcomes fall short — because the gap isn't in your content. It's in the conversation.

🙅 Every coaching session, facilitation sag, and HR conversation lives or dies on the same variable: how the words actually land. A well-designed intervention delivered through the wrong voice — too much telling when the moment called for asking, too much advice when ownership needed to stay with the learner — quietly erodes the very outcomes you're accountable for.

🔎 This shows up as:

🙂‍↕️ Participants who nod in the room and disengage after.

👮 Coaching conversations that generate compliance, not real change.

💬 HR conversations that resolve the immediate issue but never rebuild the trust.

🔬Facilitated sessions that produce activity without insight.

👻 None of this is a content problem. It's a conversational one — and it's largely invisible until you know what to look for.

🚀 "Own Your Conversation," led by Kim Pong Lim, Founder and CEO of StrengthsAsia and Global Partner of SoundWave Global, is built to close exactly this gap. Using the SoundWave framework, you'll examine the conversational patterns already shaping your outcomes — and build the range to use them with intention.

🗓️ 24 September 2026, 2:00pm, SSA Academy @ Lifelong Learning Institute.

🐣 Early Bird Offer is On! Register Now! 👇🏽

Facilitation isn't just technique — it's YOU. Using SoundWave, explore the voices you rely on, avoid and choose in conversations.

30/08/2026

Third POW-WOW & still learning!

That’s what a community of practice is all about — there is always another framework to try, another facilitation muscle to strengthen and another perspective to learn from.

🫱🏻‍🫲🏾That's exactly why IAF-SG created POW-WOW — a safe space to practice, get feedback, and grow.

Keep a lookout for our next one! 🙌
https://lnkd.in/p/gna8iy2c

28/08/2026

🔊 Meet SoundWave — The Framework Behind Better Conversations

♥️ At the heart of SoundWave is a simple fascination: how we talk has the power to transform how we connect.

🗣️ Developed by Kevin Eyre after decades in Organisational Learning and Development, SoundWave is a conversational intelligence framework built on three verbal styles — Ask, Suggest, Tell — which unfold into nine distinct voices shaping how we question, propose, challenge and direct in every conversation.

💪🏽 Its premise is simple: your natural way of talking already holds strengths. Real growth comes from seeing them clearly — and learning to use a wider range with intention.

🖼️ This is the framework Kim Pong Lim, Founder and CEO of StrengthsAsia and Global Partner of SoundWave Global, will bring to life in "Own Your Conversation" — guiding participants to explore how their habitual voices are already shaping trust, participation and outcomes around them.

🪑 Seats for this session are limited, and the insight you will walk away with doesn't stay in the room — it changes every conversation you have after it.

🗓️ 24 September 2026, 2:00pm | SSA Academy @ Lifelong Learning Institute

🐣 Early Bird Offer is Now On!

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Facilitation isn't just technique — it's YOU. Using SoundWave, explore the voices you rely on, avoid and choose in conversations.

25/08/2026

🚨 LAST CALL: Feedback Doesn't Just Improve Your Facilitation. Community Feedback Transforms It.

📋 There's a difference between feedback and COMMUNITY feedback.

💭 A mentor can tell you what they see. A manager can tell you what worked. But a community of Facilitators — people who have stood in the same room, faced the same silence, wrestled with the same difficult participant — sees you differently.

👀 They don't just critique your technique. They recognise your instincts. They notice the moments you didn't even realise mattered. They offer perspectives shaped by their own hard-won experience, not just observation.

That's the kind of feedback that actually moves your craft forward.

🤝 It comes from people who've been where you are.

💨 It's grounded in real facilitation experience, not just opinion.

🌱 It's generous, because everyone in the room is there to grow — not to judge.

🧠 It reflects the diversity of methodologies, industries, and styles in our community.

🔥 It pushes you to try things you wouldn't have attempted alone

🎯 This is exactly what POW-WOW offers.

🤗 A room full of facilitators — new and experienced — ready to practice, observe, and give each other the kind of feedback that only a community can offer.

💺 Seats are limited, and this is your last call.

🎟️ Get your ticket now and bring your craft into the room.

👉 https://powwow032026.eventbrite.sg

See you there!

ELEVATE your FACILITATION craft in a SAFE SPACE with feedback from experienced Facilitator(s) based on IAF competencies.