Discover You Voice, Speak With Confidence
Session One
Recording of our first session, 10th March 2022
Leadership - Who Are You?
- It is important to truly understand you before you can operate at your best. Your weaknesses, strengths, the values you live and your boundaries.
- Great leaders know what makes them , "them" .
- Are you a leader? You are a leader if you have influence over some ones thinking, behavior or development.
- There are 2 types of leadership roles: ( everyone is a leader)
- Life Role Leadership - spouse, parents, siblings, friend, aunty, citizen
- Organizational Leadership - a person who an official title or position/role.
The Power of Your Voice
- Most of us never truly understand the power of our voice, its impact and its purpose.
- Every time we speak we either create a distance between us and our listeners or we bridge the gap and draw near to them.
- Power of words can change hearts and change nations.
- As an entrepreneur, leader, speaker, business man, professional , friend, leader, colleague, parent and sibling, speaking in absolutely critical to get the result you want.
Being Authentic and Transparent
- Are you having to turn up as someone who has to prove to others? Are you someone who has to please others? Do you feel you are not worthy enough? Being authentic means knowing who you are and being OK with it. Being OK with not being OK.
- You don't have to hide your flaws but accept them as they are. Stand perfect in your imperfection.
- Authentic people
- Know themselves well and know what they want in life.
- Make decisions based on their won personal values rather than what is trending at time.
- Don't seek approval from others - not validating based on others.
- Take responsibility for their mistakes.
- Not afraid to be vulnerable and share their true feelings.
- Take ownership of their flaws. Stand perfect in their imperfection.
- As a leader, being transparent is utterly important. Be willing to share how you feel and what you have been through in the correct context to inspire and grow others.
- Your transparency is a gift you give to others, their trust is a gift the audience will give you.
- Being transparent as a speaker is extremely powerful to connect with your audience.
Speak your Legacy
- Leaving a legacy is a mindset change. It gives you meaning in life.
- Your language shapes your life experience, your life experience shapes your story, your story shapes your legacy.
- You life is finite (limited) , but your legacy is infinite.
- What would you want people to know you by when you have passed on?
- Make everyday of your life count.
Video Assignment - Due 16th March
You are required to record a 60secs – 90secs long video to address the below:
- What are two of your strengths as an individual?
- What are you doing in your life currently that utilizes your above 2 strengths?
- How are you planning to use your above two strengths to make a difference in the lives of others around you and shape your legacy?