Understanding Confidence: A Speaker's Toolkit Quick Guide
This foundational quick guide explains the core ethos behind the entire Speaker’s Toolkit: Competence precedes confidence. You’ll learn why confident public speaking comes from two pillars — Domain Competence (what you know) and Presentation Competence (how you deliver it).
Domain competence is your responsibility. Presentation competence is where my coaching comes in. This guide sets the stage for everything that follows, priming you to approach nerves, projection, structure, and all other skills with the right mindset.
Read this one first. Every other quick guide builds on the framework you’ll find here.
Start here. This guide lays the foundation for confident public speaking by showing why competence — in both your subject and your delivery — comes before confidence.