1. Confidence Michael Bewell

2. The intention.... At selection / interview days enable you to: Be less nervous Stop responding randomly or just brain dump Get away from thinking ‘did they understand’ Have more confidence Be more focussed and structured Skilfully get your message across and positively persuade Respond from a foundation of strength

3. Areas to cover Beliefs Strengths Communication Motivation

4. Activity What do you believe makes an excellent professional? Think, pair then share

5. Three key ingredients Bloom's Taxonomy [for learning] says: Cognitive domain Psychomotor domain Affective domain Attitude will determine your altitude in your career

6. What do you see? O p p o r t u n i t y i s n o w h e r e O p p o r t u n i t y i s n o w h e r e Or O p p o r t u n i t y i s n o w h e r e

7. Limiting beliefs Hear them in your mind chatter Stop goals being achieved Someday Isle

8. Removing limiting beliefs Want to lose it Willing to stop believing it Find evidence Create small steps Well defined Goals You can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it Einstein

9. Activity A 2 minute challenge to remember 40 objects Do you believe you can?

10. Activity Describe your best present self (in the context of being an excellent professional MFL teacher): What was the task you were doing? Who were you doing it with? What are the others saying about you? How did you look or sound? What tools, approach or methods were you using?

11. Activity “Rotating clipboards”; pass your sheet to a colleague. In 2 min they will write a time they have seen you at your best answering the same questions Keep rotating to get ~ 10ish statements for each person

12. Kolb and 4MAT model Why? Reason for learning What? Facts and concepts How? Process and practice What if? Variations and tests

13. iSPARK by Rob Cameron i must focus on I Situation Part Actions Result Knowledge

14. People like people like them The reaction you get is the communication you give. Words form 10% Tonality 40% Body language 50%

15. We all process data differently 36% of people are mainly visual 40% of people are mainly kinaesthetic 25% of people are mainly auditory

16. Characteristics of a Visual person Organized, neat and well-groomed Use visualization for memory and decision making Be more imaginative and may have difficulty putting their ideas in words Speak faster Famous visual people include scientist such as Einstein and Picasso

17. Characteristics of a Kinaesthetic person Speak slower than the general population More sensitive to their bodies and their feelings Respond to physical rewards and touching. Learn by doing, moving or touching. Famous Kinaesthetic people include Jimmy Connors, Jack Nicklaus and Chris Evert

18. Characteristics of an Auditory person Perceive and represent sequences Able to remember directions or instructions more easily Learn by listening and asking questions Easily distracted by noise Famous auditory people include song writers like Mozart, the Beatles, Paul Simon

19. Activity Describe your strengths in the style of a kinaesthetic, auditory or visual person Pairs Can your partner spot the style you are using?

20. What if.....anxiety strikes? Visualising a positive outcome Anchoring to positive emotions Reframing to use your strengths

21. A final thought. When you define your goal. AFFIRM it.We are what we think. All that we are arises. With our thoughts, we make our world. Buddha I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. MuhammedAli

22. Resources http://tinyurl.com/persuasion2011 http:// tinyurl.com/words-that-change www.doctorbewellsblog @mbewell