There are many benefits to speaking with confidence. Most
people possess the qualities requires to becoming a
confident speaker. Confident speaking is about the bringing
together of voice, creativity, enthusiasm, knowledge and
practice

Many people have benefited from becoming confident in
public speaking in a number of ways

To Overcome Shyness and Self-consciousness

You may not be a sufferer of this but there are many people
who are. It is more than the anxiety that is felt before
speaking to groups. It includes the self-consciousness felt
in ordinary social gatherings. Practicing and delivering
speeches helps build the self image necessary to be
successful in social gatherings.

To Be Able To Think Clearly

Acquiring the skill of thoroughly preparing for a speech
develops the highly admired skill of being able to think
clearly in any situation.

To Develop Hidden Talents

Many skills and talents lay undeveloped because an
individual can't express their ideas clearly and
persuasively.

To Increase Income

Public speaking skills can be used in many ways to improve
income, e.g. job interviews, sales presentations,
professional speaking, in recognition of communication
skills. Most organizations need and reward confident clear
communicators - there is always a demand for people with
these skills.

To Develop Composure

Public speaking builds confidence. Confidence develops in a
person a calm self assured dignity in social situations.

To Become More Popular

People who can talk on many matters in an interesting way
will always be welcome and people will seek them out. The
feelings that cause someone to turn and listen to a public
speaker are the same emotions that cause someone to turn
and listen to the person talking in conversation.

To Help Others

Public speaking can help the community organizations and
clubs etc, to get funds or promote ideas for the benefit of
themselves and others within their community and further
afield.

Also the primary reason for speaking is to help the
audience in some way such as entertainment, teaching them
something, persuade them to take an action for their own
benefit etc.

Today, to be a self-confident and succesful communicator it
is not necessary to emulate Abraham Lincoln or Demosthenes
or any of the famed speakers. It is to do with clearly and
convincingly conveying ideas and information that benefits
and interests the audience. The most effective way to get
these ideas etc across is in a conversational manner not in
using fine sounding words and phrases. Today most people
are able to be succesful and self-assured speakers. It does
mean learning and applying the skills of public speaking.
The steps taken to become a self-confident speaker are well
worth it because of the advantages to the speaker and their
audience.