The document provides three key tips for building confidence as a speaker: be prepared, embrace your uniqueness, and avoid apologizing for nervousness or mistakes. It also outlines three challenges to enhance confidence: making eye contact, being present in conversations, and speaking up. The message emphasizes that confidence can be developed through practice and self-belief.

1. Build Your Confidence Muscles –
Three Tips and Three Challenges
Lisa Braithwaite, Public Speaking Coach

2. What is
confidence?

3. 1982 2012

4. The only way to
build confidence
is to get out of
your comfort
zone

5. Confidence is
both mental and
physical

6. Follow these tips
for building
confidence as a
speaker

7. 1. Always be prepared

8. Know your audience, objective and
message

9. Practice, practice, practice

10. Be prepared for mishaps

11. 2. Embrace your uniqueness and
imperfections

12. Focus on connection and giving
value

13. Imagine your success using
visualization and positive self-talk

14. Check your posture, body language
and eye contact

15. 3. Never apologize

16. So what if you’re inexperienced?
Everyone starts somewhere.

17. So what if you’re nervous? Everyone
gets nervous.

18. So what if you make a mistake?
Everyone makes mistakes.

19. Here are three challenges to build
your confidence muscles

20. 1. Make eye contact

21. Hint: Smile

22. If that’s easy, make eye contact and
make a comment
Your dog is
cute.

23. If that’s easy, make a comment or
ask a question
Your dog is cute.
What’s her
name?

24. 2. Be present

25. In class, give the teacher your full
attention

26. When you're in a conversation, listen
and hear what the other is saying

27. Listen and hear what you're saying
Hello?
Hello?
Is anybody
listening?

28. 3. Speak up

29. Remember your courage

30. Plan ahead to ask a question or
make a comment
1. Ask a question
2. Make a
e t
c o m mn ne a n d
3. Ri s
repeat

31. Make opportunities to speak

33. If you don’t have
opportunities to
speak, make them

34. You don't have to
be confident to
appear confident

35. Believe in
yourself and your
message, and the
audience will, too

36. Lisa Braithwaite, M.A.
805.207.7647
lisa@coachlisab.com
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