Improving Your Speaking Ability Can Positively Impact Your Career | Vanessa Bukasa

Tips for public speaking 1. Deep breaths 2. Have a service mind's 3. Preparation (be prepared) 4. Embrace being a beginner 5. Start your kids off early (for parents) Tools to help you 1. Confidence (do what you said you'd do) 2. Books 3. Start small, but think big 4. YouTube

I was actually praying this morning that God i need to able to communicate effectively,i am required to speak on a daily basis and i just feel dumb ,i get so nervous i lose my train of thought. this is really great thank you

Aaah, this is a very interesting conversation. I remember that before 2020, I was in corporate, and I struggled so much because I was just not confident. I was so frustrated at the time I even started therapy, and the therapist coached me into public speaking. At the time, I wanted to enter academia as a lecturer, but I couldn't speak. I took public speaking courses during COVID-19. It was the best thing I have ever done for myself. I am now in academia, growing so much, and all of this happened in less than 3 years. I am that girl now in meetings. 😜

"You need to allow yourself to be small before you can be big"... I love what you said here🙌👌❤

I really love how you all listen and speak. No one is speaking while the other speaks. It's very elegant. Loved this conversation.

I just realized that I need to upskill my son while he's still young. He gets tongue tied a lot and people are impatient with him but he's so smart. I have always been confident and therefore never struggle with standing out so much so that I used to get annoyed with myself for it because why am I always given extra (non paying) responsibilities at work. I will leverage on it going forward. Thank you for this

Such an important conversation. Had a terrible experience during my internship because I just was not asserting myself at all! In meetings I’d just keep quiet and only raise concerns/questions to the person afterwards. I became invisible and overlooked. My work was brilliant but I couldn’t sell it and I suffered the consequences. I’m thankful that I am at the beginning of my career and have the grace of time to attend to the issue and work on it now before I suffer the consequences.

Vanessa, my Goodness. I was with her on a Leadership program and she stood out because of this exactly🎉, lovely to see her here again. She truly lives what she says.

The interviewer asked such beautiful questions to which the guest speaker gave brilliant answers.

Thank you so much for the conversation! I grew up being such a shy and timid person. Never did I imagine myself in spaces where I needed to show the bravery of an activist and voice out my opinions. My career as an intern gave me the platform to interact more with people; and instantly my personality changed completely once I started. I love conversation and hosting topics of interest. I don't mind sharing what's on my mind regardless of how stupid it may be to the next person. I believe the more you interact; the easier communication becomes. I am simply a confident introvert, all attributed to challenging myself to speak out.

This is the best message I had to hear, we get to work and don’t speak in meetings and complain about the people that speak the most, very bad habit, instead of complaining start learning his to speak in meetings because the people who speak more gets more recognised.

I'm a Venda lady and it's natural for me to always use English because not a lot of people know Tshivenda. I've been ridiculed and hated a LOT for speaking English and speaking up at work and at school. Whether we like it or not, English is the medium of communication in any professional setting. If you don't k now the language, don't hate those who do, they can teach you if you ask nicely :)

Speaking and being able to speak well is an important skill. From being able to present yourself to a stranger to a potential partner or presenting yourself in a professional environment.

“Representing yourself in every engagement “thank you for that

preparedness helps a lot, it sounds small but write down everything prior to the meeting so you don't off-ramp.

One thing I love about your guest is that she doesn’t come across as an extrovert. This debunks the notion that only extroverts excel at public speaking. Actually extroverts are less believable to me because they sound as though they’re delivering a pitch that they give to everyone that comes their way. A soft spoken person is more believable and relatable.

I’ve recently come to the space of speaking more in church and I want to grow further in my delivery and confidence,all these tips were so helpful .Thank you😊

This was dope. I'm beginning to face my fear of speaking in large groups confidently

The topic of 'public speaking' has been on my mind. The video couldn't have come at a better time. Thank you for such great content

I applied the tips today in my monthly finance review meeting! It worked. It works!!! Especially the part about focusing on service, not "Am I sounding right". I also forced myself to speak up more, it was terrifying but I did it!! Thank you so much. From Zimbabwe