Conversational Confidence for Kids with Anthony Stears

About this episode

The episode discusses how to help children build conversational confidence in challenging situations.

How do children build the confidence to have conversations that they may find challenging – ordering food in a restaurant, describing what’s wrong at the doctors? How can parents and indeed all of us support children in speaking up in situations where it’s important for them to have a voice? In today’s Podcast, I am speaking with Anthony Stears who is known as the Telephone Assassin, about how in the more technology driven world of today, we can encourage and help children to build Conversational Confidence so that they can advocate for themselves in all kinds of situations instead of staying silent or relying on adults to speak for them. This is such an important topic we hope that everyone will listen and take something away from our conversation so that we all have more conversations with our children and that they in turn build conversational confidence. About Anthony Stears A published author and international speaker, Anthony Stears uses training to accelerate learning by bringing people back to powerful, human to human communication. He has fast become the go to person for telephone engagement, helping companies improve both sales and service through real…

People in this episode

Host: The Barefoot Mediator Podcast

Guest: Anthony Stears

Topics covered

• conversational confidence
• children's communication
• parenting support
• self-advocacy
• technology impact

Keywords

• conversational confidence
• children
• communication skills
• parenting
• self-advocacy
• Anthony Stears

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