Tai Dixon Darden (she/her), CEO and Founder, Tai D. Coaching and Consulting, Inc.
Overcoming Nerves and Preparing To Be An Effective Speaker
This workshop will focus on guidance for preparing to become an effective and persuasive speaker. We will examine overcoming the self-doubt and nervous jitters and owning your expertise, choosing the right messaging for the right audience, understanding the foundations or persuasive communication, defining your goal and what you want to achieve, crafting clear, compelling and memorable messages, confident and authentic delivery, and engaging and connecting with your audience. This workshop is great for leaders at any level who want to be able to speak to any size group in a compelling way, connect, inspire and influence action. The skills can be applied to speaking in a compelling way about your work, delivering keynotes, leading meetings and gatherings, pitching to funders, and engaging your whole staff.
Participants will be able to reflect on their personal brand/ superpower, develop a fear reset phrase, identify their mental messages around public speaking, identify the fears and narrative that hold them back, do the effective reflection and pre-work to connect to their target audience, learn to craft memorable themes that stay with the audience beyond your remarks, and choose the right personal stories and moments of connection to weave into their public speaking. They will have the opportunity to practice crafting their speaking approach in response to scenarios in pairs. By the end of the workshop participants will leave able to confidently approach their next speaking engagement with enthusiasm, strong preparation, and improved outcomes. We are moving from anxiety to excitement about the opportunity to speak to groups.
