Discussion Week 3.3: Chapter 2 Concept

Visualization is a strategy to build confidence during a speech, discussed in Chapter 2. Visualization is when you imagine a communication event positively and successfully by thinking about your speech and how it would go step-by-step or sequentially. Since I am usually scared and nervous about how the outcome of my speech will be or how affective the message of my speech will come across to my audience I believe that this strategy would be affective for me to use. It will be affective because instead of worrying about my speech I can just become more confident in what message I am trying to tell my audience. In past years throughout my presentations in high school, junior high, and elementary school I have never really known how to build confidence during my speeches. I would say speeches not for the affect of it to the audience or myself but to just “get it over with.” I want this to change and each time I make a speech I want to say it with confidence.