How to Be a More Assertive Public Speaker Conclusion

Congratulations.

If you have actually done the homework assigned in this class meaning not just watching videos not just reading the books but speaking on video recording it revealing it critiquing it.

Doing it again and again and again until you like it.

Guess what.

You’re now an assertive speaker you now have confidence and it’s confidence based on reality because you have seen yourself give a good speech.

You’ve seen yourself present in a way that you like.

You’ve seen your hands do what you want.

You’ve seen your eyes go where you want and you’ve seen yourself.

Stop doing all those things that make anyone look scared timid uncomfortable.

I hope what you’ve learned from this course is anyone can be an assertive public speaker if they just follow a few basic principles.

For starters make sure you have a good speech.

That means primarily narrowing your messages down to a handful.

Having good examples case studies and stories for each one to make it memorable.

Then having a little cheat sheet with just one page of notes so you don’t have to memorize stuff and you know how to read PowerPoint in front of people.

This way you can just talk to people and follow notes follow a little roadmap see you not to worry or stress about what to remember and most important of all you’re going to practice your interesting speech on video until you like it.

You’re not going to do it.

Most people do which is rewrite and rewrite bullet points and edit and change this slide here and change this graph over here doing that till 2 minutes before the speech is to be delivered.

That is a prescription for disaster.

That is a prescription for making you nervous and uncomfortable and seeming timid and scared because those people should be timid and scared.

They’re about to fail with their speech.

So the ultimate way of being assertive completely filled with confidence.

Every time you speak is to know you have a great speech.

Practice it on video till you like it and then you have a role model for the assertive speaker.

The whole time you’re speaking and that role model is you.

Good luck.