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Learn practical tips and activities to boost your confidence and improve your body language. Discover how to overcome challenges and embrace your strengths.
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Confidence BuildingRecap The Beginnings Confidence Under Comfortable Over Positive Thinking Positive Actions We created some simple TIPS e.g. Don’t worry about making mistakes Did you take any ACTIONS??
Recall The Simple Tips Activity • Activity (Alone or in Pairs) • If you were asked to produce a self help guide to confidence building what SIMPLE tips might you suggest? • A simple tip is something that you can do without anyone else being involved. • For example: wear something you like
Possible TipsSee (and use) hand-out • Do at least one thing you enjoy every day • Get involved in something • Set yourself a challenge • Do something you’ve been putting off • Don’t worry about making mistakes • Compliment yourself • Don’t compare yourself with others • To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.
Confidence BuildingAnd Body Language • What is body language? • Can you demonstrate: • Positive body language? • Negative body language? • How does this relate to your confidence?
Confidence BuildingAnd Positive Body Language • Helps you to make a good impression: • Eye to eye contact • Response to a greeting • Seeming at ease • Concentration (not distracted) • Friendly / Communicative You may feel under confident BUT Do you have to look it?????
Confidence BuildingMoving Forward Past Present Future ThingsWhereThingshavewe arecould happenednowhappen
Confidence BuildingMoving Forward • Activity • Can you think of some bigger (future building) things that you could do that would help you to build your confidence? • Try to think of 3 different possibilities
Confidence BuildingBigger things that can help: • A job • A group • Volunteering • A course • Organising something • Learning a new skill • Involvement in sport • All have: • Positives • And • Negatives
The Bigger ThingsALL have positives and negatives • Activity In Pairs • Take a card • Identify as many POSITIVES • Identify the NEGATIVES • Are there any similarities????
Confidence BuildingPositives of getting a job? • In relation to the value of a work: • Financial security • Friendships • Purpose • Structure and routine • Responsibility • Experience (moving forward) • Similar to????
Confidence BuildingNegatives of getting a job? • Commitment (family v work) • Responsibility (too much) • Stress • Some individuals (maybe manager) • Trapped (not enjoying it) • Cliques (not well in) • Similar to??????
Overcoming NegativesPositive Things? • How might YOU deal with the negatives? • These are the challenges to confidence • Activity: • Think of a practical problem / challenge that you have faced and how you dealt with it. • What did you do? • What skills / attributes does it show?
About Yourself • Activity: • Identify and jot down: • 2 strengths that you know you have • 2 skills that you know you have • 2 weaknesses that you think you have • A compliment to yourself
About Yourself • Do you find it difficult to: • Give compliments? • Accept compliments? • Determine your skills? • Determine your weaknesses? • Why? • Maybe there is a poisoned parrot?
To ConcludeRemember to: • Be active • Nothing happens if you do nothing • Think about your strengths • We all have something • Admit to your strengths • Think where you can get support • People, classes…..