.The Most Common Question: How to Speak with Confidence?

The number one question that comes with becoming a coach who does business coaching is how to speak with confidence.  It might seem easier to coach someone who hasn’t experienced much success yet, because even though they can’t afford to pay you they are very appreciative.  Their appreciation makes you feel significant.  However, when you are doing business coaching with top executives and high performing entrepreneurs, they are used to being in charge.  They will test you, to make sure you really know your stuff.  Only when you prove yourself will they sign on for business coaching with you.  So is there a way how to speak with confidence to get you over this hurdle?  Sure.

How to Speak with Confidence to Improve Your Business Coaching: Top 5 Methods

Method #1: Physiology

One way how to speak with confidence is to eliminate weak physiology and create confident physiology through:

• Movement and gestures.
• Breathing
• Posture and structure
• Facial expression

Method #2: Voice quality and tempo

Eliminate weak voice quality and tempo, such as a high pitched voice.  Eliminating inflections at the end of a sentence which is usually indicative of a question will greatly improve your business coaching.

Method #3: Beliefs

Eliminate beliefs and expectations that create doubt and destroy your confidence, no matter how “accurate” they appear.  What beliefs do you have that destroy your confidence?  Replacing them with empowering alternatives is an NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) technique that can help improve your business coaching ability.

Method #4: Let go of the need to have total competence

Remember, when you don’t know what to do, act as if you actually do know. The answers will be most likely to come through you.

Method #5: Remember your greatest successes

What are three of your greatest successes in life?  Why was each a success?  After thinking about the answers, you will understand how to speak with confidence in that moment.

Learn How to Speak with Confidence and Get Results from Business Coaching

Using even one of two of these coaching techniques will help you to figure out how to speak with confidence immediately, and start getting better results with your business coaching.

Colette Seymann

JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach