2010_Oct_22_ – Confidence Building in the context of Communication Skills - Training Programme on Communication Skills and Inter-personal Skills - MCR HRD Institute – Hyderabad. This is a special presentation made for the 5 day programme, titled “Communication Skills and Inter-personal Skills” – conducted by the MCR HRD Institute [Marri Chenna Reddy Human Resource Development Institute] for the Gazetted Officers of the Government of Andhra Pradesh. The seminar was in Telugu, and if you are interested, please visit: www.archive.org and search for Prof. V. Viswanadham, and sort the results by date added. It is humbly suggested that you may please use the power point presentation/s, freely. Please feel free to refer to these website/s to your friends and motivate them to become better, continuously. Please help me to spread the motivating message to as many people as possible. Your feedback will be highly appreciated. You can give your feedback to Viswam.vangapally@gmail.com.

1. Confidence BuildingConfidence Building
in the context of
Communication SkillsCommunication Skills
presented by:
Prof. V. ViswanadhamProf. V. Viswanadham

2. we are social beings.
People can not live without each other.
As soon as we are
in contact with others
we are communicating.
We make use of
spoken and written language ~
And also BODY LANGUAGE.

3. Self-ConfidenceSelf-Confidence
is evidentis evident
throughthrough
body language andbody language and
speech.speech.

4. The content
of a spoken message
needs to be interpreted ~
with the help of
Body language, and
Tonality of voice.

5. It would be good
to become
conscious of
both
our own and
others'
body language

6. confidence
is needed to
grow as a person and
achieve something
in your life.

7. Confidence
in one's self
is something that
everyone needs.
Confidence helps you
to be happy andto be happy and
hopefully quite successful.hopefully quite successful.

8. Confidence is needed
to communicate
your needs and feelings
in an effective way.
Unless we know
how to communicate,
we can’t hope to get
what we want
out of life.

9. Just as many activities
can be learned,
you must pay attention,
learn seriously, and
practice continuously
to improveto improve
your confidence levelsyour confidence levels
in communicating effectively.

10. Confidence improves
when
You
begin to feel goodbegin to feel good
about yourselfabout yourself
~ which means being happy
with your insideinside
[ your positive attitude and your moods ]
and
your outsideoutside appearance.

11. Dressing
neatly and nicely
can build your self confidence,
because
when you look good
you will feel good.

12. Your posture
also plays an important role
in how you feel about yourself.
The way you walk, talk,
look and look up,
will make a big difference,
and cause a boost
to your self-confidence.

13. Your language,
whether it is self-talk,
or, when you are talking to others
also plays an important role
in how you feel about yourself.

14. Your past experiences
and more particularly,
what you have done,
and what you are doing now,
combine powerfully
to play an important role
in how you feel about yourself.

15. One major contributor
to one's confidence levels
is the experiences and events
that have happened in the past.
More importantly,
what you are willing to learn.
Please note that there are
no failures,no failures,
just outcomes.just outcomes.

16. To boost your
confidence levels
don’t brood over the past.
LEARN THE LESSONSLEARN THE LESSONS
and
Learn to Live in the Present
for the sake of the Future.

17. Have you ever listed
Your STRENGTHS ?STRENGTHS ?
Too many people
emphasise their weaknesses
rather than their strengths.
They program themselves
negatively to expect failure
rather than positively
to expect success.

18. Do you PROCRASTINATE ?Do you PROCRASTINATE ?
Terror of Failure ?
Fear of Success ?
Then, you are postponing
the opportunity to
Boost your confidence levels.Boost your confidence levels.

19. Work on your
existing skill level.
Have a schedule,
start noting down your ideas,
and more importantly,
noting down your practice,
progress, and review.
Keeping track,
improves your skill,
and also your confidence.

20. Work on your
existing attitude.
Review your attitude,
start improving your attitude,
and more importantly,
feel positively capable
of improving –
Adopt “I can do itI can do it” attitude.

21. Confidence Awareness Exercise
What are your positive attributes ?
1. Something I do well is ...
2. Something I have achieved is ...
3. One of my best characteristics is ...

22. Confidence Building Steps
1.keep a daily log or diary ~
where you make
a note of any positive action
you have initiated or
have received
a positive feedback

23. Confidence Building Steps
2. As confidence improves with action,
motivate yourself to have a goal,a goal,
to improveto improve and then plan for
improvement.
Now, identify much smaller,
measurable and achievable goals
which will contribute,
even if only in a small way,
towards the vision of a self confident
you.

24. Confidence Building Steps
3. Make a note in your
Self Confidence Success Log
when you achieve it – then
analyze the contributing factors,
and reward yourself
for the success,
to serve the purpose of
reinforcement.

25. How to get
an Extra HourExtra Hour
out of every day
TO BOOSTTO BOOST
YOUR CONFIDENCE ?YOUR CONFIDENCE ?

27. "Confidence is contagious.
So is lack of confidence.“
-Michael O'Brien

28. You're
either
bbuuiillddiinnggyourself up
or
tteeaarriinngg
yourself down.

29. Think
good of yourself,
for the world
takes you
at your own estimate.

30. "If we don't change,"If we don't change,
we don'twe don't ggrrooww..
If we don't grow,If we don't grow,
we aren'twe aren't
reallyreally livingliving."."
-Gail Sheehy-Gail Sheehy

31. The impact ofThe impact of
1%1%

32. If you improveIf you improve
your lifeyour life
by only 1% each dayby only 1% each day
for a year,for a year,
you will increaseyou will increase
your effectivenessyour effectiveness
by a staggeringby a staggering
3650%3650%[ it will be much more if you include the compounding effect ][ it will be much more if you include the compounding effect ]

33. Ask your spouse,
2 friends
and/or colleagues
to write down
what your
strengths are
and what your
top qualities are.

34. And if you dare ~
ask your spouse,
and at least 2 friends
to write down
what your
weaknesses are
and what your
negative qualities are.

35. And
what do you propose
to do
after knowing
your
strengths
and
weaknesses?

36. Analysis

37. Goal setting

38. Action
Planning

39. Review

40. Reflection

41. Internalization

42. Radiating
the improved
confidence level

43. C = (A+B) + (K+E) + P
C = self confidence,
A = action,
B = belief,
K = knowledge,
E = experience
P = practice.

44. I hope that you
have learnt today
which will be of benefit
to you
for the rest of your life,
it's how to build
self confidence.

45. GOOD LUCK

46. For the sake of record
As on 16th
Oct 2010 -
Prof. V. Viswanadham has uploaded live recordings
of
more than 350 of his speeches to
www.archive.org.
‘Communication Skills’ - has been downloaded,
665 times.
More than 150 Power Point Presentations,
[ slides ]
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