Confidence is a subtle thing. You don't need to assert yourself. If you deserve to be heard, you don't need to shout. If you deserve your place in the meeting, you don't need to argue for it every time. have the confidence to know that you have nothing to prove. Without the arrogance of believing that everybody else does.

Practice speaking without those unhelpful verbal habits that get in the way. First, the Yeah, arms fluency seems to be token gratitude. And whilst you know and I know the order, or means nothing about the quality of your thinking, or your level of authority, too many of them are distracting. So practice filling the gap between your words with silence. Second, it's those tag words like, you know, that's it. Because words like like and, you know, and things like that was saying, they don't add anything, do they?

Because they don't add anything and the very minimum, they contribute nothing to your gravitas. But what they do do is they suggest a lack of confidence in what you're saying to do away with them. But the killers? I was like, I'm sure, because in my opinion, no, no, I think I think, in my opinion, I'm sure. What are we really saying when we use those? Who are we really trying to convince?

Ironically, by using those words, we undermine our authority and our credibility, we come across as less confident because who we're trying to convince. It's me. When I use the words, I'm sure what I'm really saying is I'm not. Have you noticed how over confident people are the ones who set the tone in the room. When they're enthusiastic, the whole room rises up and becomes enthusiastic yet when this somber, The mean of the room drops and they become somber to allow your demeanor to set the tone of the room. And when you notice that you're able to do that, then you know you've got it