Power of You - Confidence Building

In this chapter you will check out why you need this course by looking up your expectations both from the course as well as what you need to develop within yourself. You will begin by setting your course expectations.

In this lecture you will begin to set your expectations from this course. So, lets begin.

In this lecture you will begin to set your expectations from yourself. So, lets begin.

In this lecture, you will go through a recap or a refresher of what was covered in the series I of the course Power of You - Self Discovery. If you haven't done the course, you may like to look it up.  This lecture also covers what series II includes and the course outcome. You will have an opening activity too.

This is an opening activity and needs to be completed before you proceed in the course.

Doing this activity at the start will be able to help you see your progress and know where to focus more upon in-order to better yourself, whether on speech delivery, body language, content or matter, or on how to deal with stage fright.

Lets learn about some of our fears and how bring out the speaker from within us can help us gain opportunities at various points in our life.

In this lecture you will go through 3 way to make your speech interesting so as to make your audience listen to you.

In this lecture you will go through how to start a speech while speaking to an audience, things to keep in mind during a speech and how to end it so as to make it confident.

This activity is optional.

You are encouraged to think of ways in which you could control nervousness before you speak to an audience. Once you are done, move on to the lecture to find out what we have listed down.

Doing something over and over again helps gain confidence and practice. This is one of the best ways to learn something. While this is absolutely true, lets also look at some of the other ways to control nervousness.

In this lecture, we take you some of the Do's and Don'ts of speaking to an audience.

This is a self practice activity to bring out the speaker in you.

Utilize your learning from what you have understood from the lectures.

You are encouraged to do this activity at the end of this course because only practice makes perfect.

Coming up next...'Ways to build confidence.'

In this lecture you will go through 6 ways to help you develop yourself so as to boost and build your confidence. There is a six step activity for you to complete.

While doing this activity you are encouraged to think of someone you admire. Someone you wish to be like. You need to spend time and think of their qualities and in what ways you are similar to this person as well as what areas you lack. You also need to look up what are the qualities that they have that you need to possess in-order to be like them and how you plan to achieve this.

In this lecture you will go through an opening activity. You will learn what causes stress and what it does. You will also look at some of the ways you can manage stress and get organized.

This lecture begins by explaining how you identify what is important and what is urgent.

The lecture includes a mindfulness activity that you can use and practice whenever you find yourself stressed and need to relax.

Mindfulness is a type of meditation that helps you focus on your feelings at the given moment, without being judgmental about yourself. The practice involves using breathing methods, sounds and guided imagination to soothe and relax the body and mind and help reduce stress.

Click on the image to watch a video clip on how you need to be assertive in stressful situations.

In this lecture you will begin with an activity or action plan on managing stress and getting organized.

As we end, you will also go through a recap of the course, Power of You - Series II, Confidence Building.

This is an action plan that we discussed in the previous lecture.

Spend some time on this activity to check what you would do in these scenarios.

Use the learnings from the previous lectures to help you.