Speak with
Confidence
and Impact

Speak with Confidence
and Impact

Speak with Confidence and Impact

Welcome to Confidence to Speak!

We help you speak better, with greater impact and with more ease. We blend speech training with executive coaching for a unique approach to improve your speaking skills. Our speech coaching not only increases your speaking skills, we also address what’s happening for you on the inside, where confidence resides.

Whether you need to give a presentation, present ideas to the board, motivate your workforce, give a memorable speech or make yourself understood we can help you make the changes to improve your confidence and transform your presence.

Our driving goal is simple: empowering you to speak better and gain confidence to speak in any situation. Our proven learning pathways will help you skill up to speak effectively and EFFORTLESSLY – with impact, authenticity and integrity.

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Join us to:

Understand and practice the essentials for effective speaking
Learn new speaking and communication skills
Make people remember you for the integrity in your speaking voice
Take the steps to self discovery and authenticity – your unique self
Build meaningful relationships by being at ease with speaking

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What is Speech Coaching?

Speech Coaching is so much more than doing speech drills or reciting exercises. Being a blend of speech training and executive coaching, our speech coaching addresses the whole person. We work with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) definition of coaching: “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximise their personal and professional potential”.

We partner with you to improve your speaking skills and overall confidence. We do this by combining creative, practical exercises with thought-provoking interactions. Over years of working with clients we have developed a multitude of systems to reinforce your individual strengths and address your needs. Clients say our coaching increases self-awareness, self-directing, self-affirmation and self-confidence. It is a practical and inner journey that can unblock obstacles to communication and/or expression.

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Can you identify with any of these statements?

First of all, congratulations on your promotion! But it often comes with new challenges. You feel overwhelmed in the role of leading meetings and worry too much about it. You’ve seen others more at ease when speaking to groups. You can’t control your nerves and you’re afraid others see that. However, this is an opportunity to upskill, to develop new capacities and let go of old ideas about yourself.

You’re frustrated by being overlooked, or talked over, or not having your ideas taken seriously. You can’t afford to continue in the same way and you know you need to make a change. You’ve tried taking online courses and in-person communication skills courses. But nothing’s working. Your self-confidence is bruised, but often it’s about getting closer to who you are, not ticking boxes.

Each time you’re asked to lead an online meeting you fret about it for days or weeks ahead. You find it challenging to lead and keep it interesting so that others will stay engaged. You may think you lack charisma. But is that really it? Perhaps it’s simpler. Finding your own approach, your own voice and being at ease helps you relax while inviting others to engage.

You’ve been asked to give a wedding speech or a conference speech but you know your nerves will get the better of you. You’ve tried deep breathing exercises, either from online courses or from yoga class, but your nerves are still on overdrive. You know there has to be a trick to control your nerves and deliver an impactful speech. The answer, you’re sure, is out there.

When you were in school you had to give a talk in front of the class. Your voice quivered, your hands shook, and your legs nearly gave way. The other kids looked at ease giving their talks. This experience has stayed with you since, shaping your perception of public speaking. There must be a trick to it all. If only I could be let in on the secret.

You know the answer isn’t doing the same thing over and over. And you’ve tried in-house workshops and online courses. You’ve even gone to the local public speaking group. You feel you’re not making any progress and it’s frustrating. Now you realise you’ve got to explore an individual approach to make the necessary changes. Otherwise the same ol’ same ol’ will continue.

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Professional Affiliations

Our Expertise

Our Expertise

People Excel

We deliver impressive outcomes that can focus on leader development, career transitions, public speaking, special occasions or gaining overall confidence in speaking.

Leaders Inspire

Leaders Inspire

Leadership requires heart, courage, and wisdom. We provide an oasis for exploration, action and reflection, defining clarity of purpose, to enhance your leadership signature.

Teams Relate

How teams speak and relate underpin a healthy and productive business climate. Inclusive dynamics are the key to sustainable teams. Our workshops optimise team development and cohesion.

Wellbeing

Wellbeing

Impactful exchange and action lead to increased self-awareness and making change possible, supporting health, confidence and the ability to self-manage.

Our Coaching

Our Coaching

Success Stories

Others sing our praises best of all. We have helped thousands of people take steps to speak better in a wide range of situations, including public speaking, board room presentations and delivering wedding speeches. We have also accompanied people through their personal and professional journeys towards becoming more authentic and more self secure.

Below are some of our clients' stories. What will yours be?

Donald is a valuable coach and mentor for any engineer progressing into leadership. As an engineer I often overlook the fundamentals of communication, becoming overly focussed on content. Donald's skill is his ability to give you the insight as to how your messages are being received and then the tools and confidence to deliver the messages you want to get across. I therefore highly recommend Donald.

- CEO, Private Sector

During our sessions Donald offered an enthusiastic and thorough insight into training for public speaking and workplace management. Donald’s expertise, patience and encouragement have had an invaluable impact on my public speaking skills and my wider personal development. The effectiveness of Donald’s coaching toolkit has left me feeling more confident in the workplace during both normal day-to-day business and in challenging circumstances.

- Senior Officer, City Council

My wedding speech was a resounding success. While I am used to public speaking in my professional life, I knew that this could be a very emotional time. I’m so glad I found Donald. His calm and supportive approach helped me when practicing my speech, which meant that on the big day I felt I was talking to friends. I would never have been so confident with my delivery without his help. I highly recommend him.

- CEO, Not-for-Profit

Coaching with Donald gave me an understanding of the skills that I need to improve my communication. His coaching is very effective and precise. The sessions gave me opportunity to refine my vocal delivery, body language and presentation. Speech coaching also allowed me to explore various ways of self-expression, self-awareness, and the ability to step out of comfort zones, increasing my personal development and my self-confidence.

- Office worker, Private Sector

Donald's coaching effectiveness is excellent. I felt very safe and comfortable from the beginning. Donald has a lot of knowledge and wisdom in his practice. Donald is clear about his role and how coaching works. He is very precise in his interventions, which supported me towards finding my own answers and solutions. The sessions were also fun, relaxed, and very positive, and I definitely recommend them!

- Assistant Psychologist

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Are you ready to make some profound professional and personal changes? We will provide you with expertise, balanced feedback, support and encouragement while offering you a customised level of challenge that will transform your speaking and communication to a new level.

The steps toward significant change can be both exciting and difficult. By partnering together along your journey, the path of change will be less lonely, more insightful and downright fun. We’ll be right beside you and cheer you on until those new skills are part of you.

Ready to take a rewarding journey together?

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Insights

Insights is the part of the Confidence to Speak website where you can read Donald Phillips' articles on various aspects of speech coaching.

What is Speech Coaching?

Donald Phillips / 30th January 2024

Communicating and being understood are basic human needs. Communicating effectively to be readily understood is a functional ability that can be thwarted due to various reasons, including psychological, emotional and/or physical challenges.

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Touch Time for Speaking Skills

Donald Phillips / 14th March 2024

When learning to play a sport, the most valuable component is touch time. Touch time can be defined as the amount of time practising the sport, being on the pitch or playing field/surface, and/or getting time with the sport’s object (ball, racket, puck, oars, gymnastic rings, horse).

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Head – Heart Connection

Donald Phillips / 8th March 2023

We all know the feeling of needing to give a talk or teach on a subject that we know something about but we may not know the subject thoroughly, or made it “our own” so to say.

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Who We've Worked With

We are proud to have worked with clients from these organisations. We look forward to working with you too!

Confidence to Speak

Our mission is simple: empowering YOU to speak better – effectively and effortlessly in any situation – with impact, authenticity and integrity.

Services

Location

8 Spademill Road
Aberdeen
AB15 4XW

Scottish Company No: 633865

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