Week 1.

Developing Self-Confidence

Week 1.

Developing Self-Confidence

Stage Fright / Presentation AnxietyStage Fright / Presentation Anxiety

• Talk yourself out of negative thoughts!

• Face it, accept it, deal with it, and then let it go.

• Identify your fear, replace it with positive thoughts, plan and prepare, and then breathe deeply and slowly.

Speaking to Develop Self-confidenceSpeaking to Develop Self-confidence

• To overcome speech fear.• To express opinions or personal experiences.• To share feelings in public.

To speak about a very familiar topic.YOURSELF!!

• Introduce yourself to others, i.e. classmates.• Your goal is to impress your audience, so

that he/she would remember you and your special traits easily.

• Not only to introduce your personal info• But also to add sth personal to bring the

audience closer.

A personal experience

A strong emotional reaction

Introducing YourselfIntroducing Yourself

Personal ExperiencePersonal Experience

• Everybody has had experiences that are unforgettable in some way.

• Your challenge is to make the audience relive the experience with you.

Embarrassing Frightening Funny Interesting

Happy Unique Uncomfortable Sad

Educational Exciting Dangerous Surprising

Strong Emotional ReactionsStrong Emotional Reactions

• Strong emotional reactions are easy to arouse echoes among the audience.

• Feeling thrilled > happy• Feeling furious > angry • Feeling heartbroken> sad • Feeling panicky > scared

A Specific FearA Specific Fear

• Being able to talk about sth you are afraid of and to share your feelings with the class is a good way to gain confidence when speaking before an audience.

Flying in planes Being in the dark

Public speaking Going to a new country

Meeting new people Interviewing for a job

Snake / Cockroach Large dogs

Taking tests Going to the hospital

Creating Social NetworkCreating Social Network• 2 minutes for you to think about how to

introduce yourself impressively. • Introduce yourself to one of your classmate. • Then go around the room and introduce yourself

to another classmate. • Bring your new partner back

to the original partner, and introduce each other. (Take turns)

Social LanguageSocial Language• Greeting: “How do you do?”

– “How do you do” “Pleasure to meet you”• Shake hands when you first meet someone.

– In some cultures people shake both hands, but in most cultures people shake the right hand.

– Male handshake should be firm. Weak handshakes are sometimes referred to as 'limp' or 'cold'.

• Ask a few personal questions as “icebreakers”, and then move into professional mode. 

More about handshaking or gestures: Week 3

Introducing Yourself & Creating Social NetworkIntroducing Yourself & Creating Social Network

• Introduce yourself to one of your classmate during a 1-minute conversation.

• Go around the room and introduce yourself to another classmate.

• Create your social network & Impress other people!

• Create your social spot!

• The conversation will carry on for 10 minutes. Meet as many friends as you can.

• Come to the stage and introduce one person that impress you the most and why. Impress us too!!

• Remember:

So you better know MORE friends, or you volunteer to be the first in every circle!

• A introduce B B introduce C C introduce A (new start)… Left: introduce yourself (& punishment?!)

No repetition!!

Introducing YourselfIntroducing Yourself

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Now, Go!!