Public Speaking For Beginners Wanting To Build Confidence

Outcomes:

1. To explore the limiting beliefs feeding into your fears and insecurities

2. To identify the toxic behaviours, you have adopted towards your public speaking confidence

3. To bring awareness to your limiting beliefs, fears, toxic behaviours and to create the change you can start making.

Fears are overcome through building competence. Competence breeds confidence. Confidence leads to growth.

Confidence has nothing to do with what is happening in your outer life. It’s always generated from within. It transcends what we do and what we know.

We all have those internal conversations that sometimes include self-sabotaging thoughts that erode our confidence.ha That internal dialogue can mark the difference between success in life and never fully reaching your potential.

Competence breeds confidence. To become competent, one must be willing to face their fears and insecurities

I know first-hand how the fear of rejection can hold us back. Our natural tendency to avoid it at all costs can be detrimental to our businesses, our careers, and our lives. In this lesson, I introduce you to an approach where rejection, instead of being avoided, is deliberately and actively sought after. This is done as a means to help you become more resilient to the fear of rejection, build confidence, and turn your rejections into doors for opportunity.

Support is crucial to solidifying our early stage confidence.  In this lesson, I introduce you to an approach where acceptance/support, is deliberately and actively sought after. This is done as a means to help you realise what it feels like to be supported and accepted by people who want to see you do great. It is all about using quick wins to help you grow and boost your confidence.

As a speaker, you will at some point deal with a ruthless and judgmental audience. For this reason it is important that we learn to be more compassionate in the way we talk to ourselves. Be kind when you look in the mirror; pay yourself a compliment and refrain from being so harsh in your judgments. Negative self-talk leads to doubts about your own ability to take care of life’s problems and challenges.

Eye contact is an important nonverbal social cue because it projects confidence, high positive self-esteem and assertiveness. Looking down or looking around gives the audience the impression that you are nervous. In this lesson, we unpack the phenomenal power of eye contact

“What if I stumble?”; “What if they don’t like me?”; “What if they ask questions and my mind goes blank?”; and “Will they judge me?”

Does any of this sound familiar?

The biggest obstacle in public speaking is the “all-about-me” mindset — my fear, lack of confidence, doubts, inability and imperfection. In this lesson, we focus on the most critical strategy to overcoming your fear of public speaking, shifting your focus from “all about me” to “all about them, the audience”.