Self-Confidence at Work E-Book

50MINUTES

• Herausgeber: 50Minutes.com
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Serie: Coaching
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 29

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Ready to take your career to the next level? Find out everything you need to know about self-confidence at work with this practical guide.

It is widely assumed that confident people progress further in their careers and always get what they want. While this is true to an extent, anybody can become one of these confident people and begin to fulfil their desires. By understanding the causes of your low confidence and building it back up, you too can achieve your goals. Stop hiding in the background; assert yourself and climb that career ladder! 

In 50 minutes you will be able to:
• Understand why you lack self-confidence and how this can harm you personally and professionally
• Use confidence-building techniques to help you voice your opinions and be heard
• See why self-confidence is so important in every aspect of your life

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Leseprobe

How can I have more self-confidence?

Issue: how can I assert myself and find fulfilment at work?Uses: having self-confidence allows us to express a natural authority that exudes from us, an assurance that will enable us to develop professionally. Professional context: career management, workplace relations, etc. FAQs:During a meeting, how do I get the courage to speak to give my opinion? My boss constantly belittles me. How can I be self-confident despite this?How can I be more self-assured without seeming pretentious?How can I ask my boss for a raise or promotion if I myself am not convinced of my own value? How do I manage an experienced team when I have only just graduated? How can I stay confident during a period of unemployment? What attitude should I adopt when my colleagues refuse to work with me and make many petty remarks?

The increasing number of professional coaches and the new types of therapies highlight the fact that physical and psychological suffering in the workplace has become one of the main problems in Western societies. From the top manager to the lowest employee, we all have difficulty thriving professionally and we experience a series of frustrations that often translate into a lack of self-confidence.

This issue of self-confidence within our professional activity firstly involves reversing an assumption that is still widely accepted today and affirming, in the words of the psychologist and psychoanalyst Roland Guinchard, that “work is a personal experience that is experienced collectively and not the other way around”1 (Guinchard, 2011: 1).

Here we find the increasingly widespread idea that our work has to be the expression of a private and profound desire (a subconscious force that drives us to work) so that it is no longer seen as a “job”, an inescapable constraint to which we are subjected. In order to get away from this logic of “we’re all in the same boat”, which makes work miserable and unfulfilling, it is a good idea to explore what motivates us and what defines us personally to ask ourselves this question: how can my work make use of my self-confidence and become a place of accomplishment?

This short guide aims to get you to ask yourself the right questions and to enable you to freely explore the paths that will lead you to climb the professional ladder in accordance with your most profound aspirations. You will also find practical tools enabling you to quickly affirm yourself in your daily work.

1 This quotation has been translated by 50Minutes.com.

Unfailing confidence: the basics

Self-confidence; a complex idea

Different meanings

Self-confidence as a concept first appeared in the writing of William James (1842-1910), an American psychologist considered to be the father of psychology in the United States, in his work Principles of Psychology, which was published in 1890.