How to Overcome Shyness and Improve Your Social Skills?

Do you feel nervous in situations where you will be meeting new people? Do you find yourself wishing you had more friends? How much does your shyness bother you or interfere with your life? Do people misinterpret your shyness as a sign of aloofness or a snobby attitude?

Nearly everyone sometimes feels shy:

• Before making an important announcement

• When you want to make a good impression on someone

• When raising a delicate issue with someone in a position of authority

• When you have to make a complaint, etc.

Many people across the world describe themselves as shy. They are concerned that people will look at them, evaluate them, and judge them poorly. They fear rejection.

In many cases, people are unhappy with this trait. Shyness prevents them from doing things they would like to be able to do, such as getting out and making new friends, assuming greater positions of responsibility at work. They would like to change things so that they wouldn’t have to feel like this.

Shyness refers to feeling awkward or uncertain in social situations. It is associated with self-consciousness, excessive monitoring of behavior and over-rehearsal of potential statements. For many people, making small talk, asking other people for directions, saying hello to a neighbor – is very difficult. They want desperately to participate in conversation, but feel ill-equipped to do so. They feel frustrated, alienated and excluded. They hesitate, can’t be spontaneous in speech, and don’t express opinions. Shy people are often erroneously considered rude or aloof.

Shyness is also related to perfectionism, desire to please others, sensitivity to criticism, fear of rejection, suggestibility, difficulty relaxing, and frequent worry.

This course will be useful for anyone who is troubled by shyness and experiences difficulties when interacting with other people. It will provide you with sufficient information about shyness and offer a variety of strategies to overcome it. You will develop a better understanding of the problem and learn practical skills to deal with shyness.

The course includes the following topics:

1. Developing social skills

2. Building self-esteem

3. How to cope with the challenges posed by shyness

4. Enhancing your social effectiveness

5. Understand yourself better

6. How to get rid of feelings of inferiority

7. How does shyness develop and what keeps it going

8. How to deal with embarrassment

9. How to reduce self-consciousness

10. How to stop monitoring your behavior

11. How to build up confidence

12. How to change thinking patterns

13. How to deal with underlying beliefs and assumptions

14. How to become more assertive

15. Are introverts shy? Shyness and introversion

16. What causes people to be shy?

17. Situations that elicit shyness

18. Feeling out of place in social encounters

19. Why are perfectionists shy?

20. Negative consequences of being shy

21. Is shyness a positive trait?

22. Shyness over the phone

23. Social clumsiness

24. Shy person’s strategies for coping

25. Attitudes toward shy people

26. Shyness and cultural messages

27. The fear of being disliked

28. Fear of disapproval and rejection

29. Shyness and your body-image

30. Feeling inferior to others

31. How to socialize naturally

32. Challenging your negative thoughts

33. Low self-esteem. What to do about it?

34. How to communicate effectively. Improving communication skills

35. Dealing with criticism

36. Understanding social rules and conventions

37. Improving your conversation skills

38. How to be and act genuine

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