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Talking Confidently for Software Engineers
Rating: 4.7 out of 5(21 ratings)
237 students

Talking Confidently for Software Engineers

Learn to talk confidently in stressful professional situations like in software development environments.
Created byRag Dhiman
Last updated 1/2025
English
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What you'll learn

  • Learn to speak confidently in stressful professional situations.
  • Learn how to reduce anxiety before and after speaking.
  • Learn how to feel better about speaking in stressful software development situations.
  • Learn how to create a complete strategy that will help you speak confidently.
  • Build up to public speaking by first learning to speak confidently.
  • Improve your communication skills in work situations like debating and presentations.
  • Learn how to develop your speaking confidence to improve your conversation skills.

Course content

1 section • 10 lectures • 51m total length

  • Introduction1:43

    In this course, "Talking Confidently for Software Engineers," learn different strategies to make you feel confident in stressful software development situations. Please notethat this course does not teach you how to speak, as you already know that, but instead introduces strategies to help you feel more confident before, during, and after stressful talking and debating situations.

  • Why Is It Important?4:24

    Learn why speaking confidently and calmly matters for career progression in modern software development, with practical emphasis on standups, planning, design reviews, whiteboard collaboration, code reviews, sprint demos, and retros.

  • Not About Speaking Technique3:21
  • What Is Feeling?4:06

    Boost your confidence when speaking in stressful software development by cultivating a calm feeling before, during, and after talks, using five brain strategies: connectivity, foods, exercise, conditioning, and imitation.

  • Brain Connectivity Matters8:11
  • Brain-Boosting Foods Matter7:31

    Boost your confidence in stressful speaking with brain boosting foods that supply feel good vitamins, minerals, and hormones. Customize diet to your gut by identifying intolerances and using gut-friendly alternatives.

  • Brain-Boosting Exercise Matters5:59
  • Brain Conditioning Matters6:18

    Condition your brain for stressful software speaking through incremental exposure, starting with water cooler conversations and updates, then longer contributions and constructive feedback to reduce internal panic and boost confidence.

  • Brain Imitation Matters5:15

    Imitate a confident speaker's brain to master pacing, voice modulation, pauses, and breathing. Practice slow, deliberate speech to sound clearer, more confident, and ready for everyday software engineering conversations.

  • Putting It All Together4:27

Requirements

  • Need to talk confidently in stressful professional situations like software development.

Description

Talking Confidently for Software Engineers

Do daily stand-ups make your heart race? Do you struggle to defend your technical choices during design debates?

Gone are the days when software engineers could design, develop, and test in isolation. In today’s Agile world, writing brilliant code is only half the job. You are expected to justify your estimates, passionately defend your architectural decisions at the whiteboard, and collaboratively challenge colleagues—all of which can be incredibly stressful.

Hi, I'm Rag Dhiman, a Software Architect and Technical Instructor. Welcome to Talking Confidently for Software Engineers.

This is not a generic public speaking course. You already know how to talk. Instead, this is a highly targeted tactical guide for the everyday, high-stress communication hurdles unique to modern software development.

I designed this course to help you transform communication anxiety into engineering authority. We will explore proven, actionable strategies to manage your mindset and responses before, during, and after stressful professional interactions.

What You Will Achieve

  • Command the Daily Stand-up: Deliver clear, concise updates without feeling put on the spot.

  • Navigate Sprint Planning: Confidently stand your ground on your technical estimates and timelines.

  • Master Design Debates: Present and defend your whiteboard architectures logically.

  • Challenge Constructively: Question your team's ideas without creating unnecessary friction.

  • Implement a Proven Framework: Walk away with a personal, step-by-step program to continuously build your confidence long after the course ends.

Who Is This Course For?

  • Engineers and tech leads who feel anxious speaking up in Agile meetings.

  • Introverted tech professionals looking for strategic ways to be heard.

  • Anyone tired of great technical ideas being ignored due to a lack of communication confidence.

Stop letting brilliant ideas get lost in the noise. Enroll today, and take the first step toward becoming a more confident, influential software engineer!

What is the specific name of the framework or program you provide at the end of the course, so we might highlight it directly in the description?

Who this course is for:

  • Professional workers who struggle with speaking confidently.
  • Professional workers who want to improve their speaking eventually improve their conversational skills.
  • Professional workers who want to improve their speaking confidence to eventually improve their public speaking.

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