Why we do massively undermine our own confidence? What is the role of our inner critic? If we want to change how we feel about public speaking, it’s really useful to build confidence by re-thinking how we talk to ourselves

What exactly does it take for people to get confidence? Do we understand confidence in a useful way? What actions, beliefs and understandings do we need around confidence for public speaking?

As a public speaker, what do you need to do for the audience to trust you more? Eye connection plays a very strong role and that surprises some people.  If you don’t get your eyes right you get comments like this when you ask an audience; “You look arrogant”, “You look like you don’t care”, “ You look bored” , “You look rude” and “You look really odd and shifty!”
I then ask: “Do I look less or more confident than I did just a minute ago before I stopped looking at you?”
The answer is always “less confident”
Your relationship to the audience is key. This blog looks at how you can help your audience build trust in you

Why are audiences tricky to work with? We misunderstand what is happening when we are in the audience. Audiences have blank faces when they listen. They listen passively

What’s the most powerful part of your presentation? It’s not your slides, it’s not your body language…..

We talk about fearlessness when we think of confidence. We need to re-think public speaking confidence as this awful train journey shows