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Week 1. Developing Self-Confidence

Week 1. Developing Self-Confidence. Stage 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.

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Week 1. Developing Self-Confidence

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  1. Week 1.Developing Self-Confidence

  2. Stage 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.

  3. Speaking 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!!

  4. Introducing 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 sthpersonalto bring the audience closer.  A personal experience  A strong emotional reaction

  5. Personal Experience • Everybody has had experiences that are unforgettable in some way. • Your challenge is to make the audience relive the experience with you.

  6. Strong 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

  7. A 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.

  8. Creating 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)

  9. Social 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

  10. Introducing 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!

  11. Introducing Yourself • 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!!

  12. Now, Go!! http://www.online-stopwatch.com/

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