Workshop on Leading with Confidence

Program Overview:

This program is designed for participants who wish to achieve a high level of self-confidence and assertiveness skills with the ability to communicate in a strong, assertive and confident manner. This high level of confidence is needed in a variety of everyday business situations especially when communicating to groups or individuals. It is a proven fact that an individual’s level of personal self-confidence will impact greatly on one’s managerial and leadership success.

For whom:

This program is designed for managers, supervisors, front line managers who wish to boost their confidence and assertiveness so that they can lead and manage people more effectively.

Learning objectives:

At the end of this program, participants will be able to: ·

• speak to groups in a way that will inspire and motivate them;
• put your message across assertively in business meetings;
• get people to buy into your ideas;
• speak with passion and confidence; and
• project confidence and credibility to those you work with.

Course outline:

Day One: Creating a Confident and Credible Image

• Where does self-confidence come from?
• The comfort zone and its impact on business success
• Banishing the fear of speaking in public
• Self-perception and its impact on confidence
• How being confident can help you raise your profile
• Body language and its impact on credibility

Day Two: Confident Communication to Groups 

• How to run efficient and effective meetings
• How to prepare for and structure a business presentation
• How to get over the nerves of giving a business presentation
• Dealing with questions from senior leaders
• How to sell yourself and your organization and your ideas
• Building rapport in business presentations

Day Three: Confident Communicating to Get Results

• The power of using stories to get messages across
• Using analogies effectively
• Using evidence to win people over to your

way of thinking

• Increasing your personal power and charisma
• When to be strong and when to play weak
• Inclusive/exclusive language and its

effect on people

Day Four: Communicating Passion

• The importance of passion
• Developing courage and confidence in

conflict situations

• Beating your comfort zone and taking more risks
• Using our full range of communication
• Powerful closes that move people to action,
• Become a magnetic personality

Day Five: Enhancing your Profile within the

Organization

• How to conduct yourself to senior people
• How to sell change to people who don’t want

to change

• How to sell unpopular policies to team
• How to make yourself memorable,
• Be a radiator, not a drain

Training Methodology

Lectures, discussions, exercises, case studies, audio-visual aids will be used to reinforce these teaching/learning methods.