Public Speaking

What is Coaching in Public Speaking and Performance Confidence?

Coaching is a guided experience in which one’s strengths and vulnerabilities (both being elemental for self-development) are invited to emerge. Coaching will drive these strengths and vulnerabilities to show themselves in the open, to act as actual tools for empowerment. Engaging in a session with a coach is an experience-based and autonomous mode of learning, and to find a coach you really connect with can be a true gift.

Coaching is a process in which a coach and a client work together to improve the client’s performance. Coaching acts on the ‘present moment’ and does not engage with one’s past. In this model of coaching, the coach, fundamentally, is there to facilitate development, to guide one’s improvement in public performance.

What can I expect from Coaching?

The standard mode of coaching happens through a one-to-one session with the coach. The first session will be a gentle conversation about what blocks a client might be experiencing with regards to speaking, presenting or being in public, both in a live mode and also within online virtual environments.

Apart from live one-to-one session, coaching can happen through private online Skype sessions, towards staff training within both group and individual settings, as well as for team building purposes.

Why would I opt for Coaching?

Reasons to opt for coaching might be the fear of speaking in public events such as conferences, symposia, job interviews, board and business meetings, court cases, on TV or radio programmes, on Skype calls or other virtual environments, at university presentations, or even day to day encounters with others.

What Coaching is Not.

It is important to understand and acknowledge that coaching does not constitute therapy. The objective of coaching is not to heal a client. In this instance of coaching, the objective is to guide the client to optimal public presentation and confidence. In the instance where the process to such an objective is being blocked by conditions that need medical intervention, the client might also want to engage the service of the required professional, such as a psychologist or a psychotherapist.

Why do you need Coaching?

You need coaching so that you can transmit your message to your audience with ease, confidence and efficiency. Coaching will push your strengths; it will help you believe in yourself and it will take you to an empowered state of being, ready to share your gifts, ideas and talents with the global community. Coaching will expand your business. It will train your public presence, be it in a conference, an office, a blockchain or crypto currency summit, or an online event, with the guaranteed potential of attracting business. Online, it will give you more visibility and exposure.

Who is Coaching for?

Essentially, coaching in Public Speaking and Performance Confidence is for anyone who wishes to strengthen their public presence and confidence in casual social events, in formal social events, in one’s office or work space, in an interview, in a conference, symposium or summit, in a board meeting, in court, in a classroom of students, in front of a client, on a Skype call, on an online interview, video, or class, for TV presence, for radio presence, for business consultations or for political/activist speeches. Simply put, coaching is for anyone who would like to invest in self-development, be it for professional reasons, personal ones or both.

What do we tackle in Coaching?

Aspects that we tackle in coaching include, among others, fears and blockages, breathing and posture, body language, facial expressions, emotions and neutrality, inner state and outer appearance.

Coaching in Public Speaking and Performance Confidence will guide you to approach your audience, even if this is one person, live, online, or in front of a recording camera, with ease and confidence, as a result transmitting your message clearly in order to gain optimal results.