As a presenter, you must speak confidently no matter how large your audience is. Self-esteem is how you feel about yourself.
It not only gives higher levels of confidence, enhanced initiative, but also overall pleasant feelings—all essential for a successful marketing presentation.
If you don’t feel up to the task every time you have a pitch, here are four ways to improve your self-esteem like a presentation expert:
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Engage in Self-Affirmation
You won’t get far if you continuously bring yourself down. Instead, highlight your strengths and recall your positive qualities.
It’s healthy to remind yourself of your successes, big or small. Inevitably, you might self-criticize and blame yourself for past failures. You can’t erase these experiences, but you can learn to handle them positively.
Focus on how much you’ve changed or are willing to change to improve yourself.
Seek Out Nurturing People
Seek out people who make you feel good about yourself. Build on their optimism and ask for their constructive advice for self-improvement. Avoid people who find fault in everything.
Disassociate with people who compare themselves with others. You won’t achieve your best with unfair comparisons. Look for people who support you and appreciate your skills as a better gauge of your worth.
Set Realistic Expectations
Being successful, even with minor tasks, builds self-esteem. Holding yourself to ridiculously high standards only leads to disappointments and lowers your confidence. A project’s failure is not your failure as a person.
Treat these moments as opportunities for further self-improvement.
Even successful people have experienced failure. Look at failures positively and constructively instead of as excuses to never try again.
It’s Okay Not to Be Loved by All
It’s a common error to assume that successful people are universally loved.
It wrongly makes you pander to everyone, when not everyone can possibly like you.
There’s no person in the world who’s loved by everyone. In a large enough group of people, you’ll inevitably meet someone who thinks differently from you or dislikes you. This is perfectly acceptable.
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The longer you’ve been struggling, the harder it is to kick the habit. But with enough dedication and patience, it’s perfectly doable.
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References
Baumeister, R. F., J. D. Campbell, J. I. Krueger, and K. D. Vohs. “Does High Self-Esteem Cause Better Performance, Interpersonal Success, Happiness, or Healthier Lifestyles?” Psychological Science in the Public Interest 4, no. 1 (2003): 1-44.
“Dig into Your Presentation Audience’s Key Learning Styles.” SlideGenius, Inc. May 8, 2015. Accessed May 18, 2015.
