Finding ways to feel more confident at work is important for any working girl. Are you someone who feels insecure in your working environment? Perhaps you have just changed careers and are finding it hard to adapt when surrounded by new colleagues and unfamiliar surroundings? Don’t beat yourself up about these feelings. They are incredibly common and you are most definitely not alone in your lack of workplace confidence.
Recent surveys have shown that more than half of the world’s working people suffer from professional insecurities for at least one sustained period in their careers, so it’s all about how you confront these issues to come out on the other side a happier person and more content with your job. Here a few ways to feel more confident at work.
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Keep Track of Achievements
One of the best ways to feel more confident at work is to keep track of all the good things you've done. Lots of people’s jobs involve completing many tasks and solving many problems in a single day. Make sure that you keep track of all the things that you are doing well, so that when the time comes when you make a mistake, you can look back at all of your previous wins. This will help you realise that just because the mistakes feel twenty times worse than the wins feel good, it doesn’t mean that they are occurring more frequently. It’s human nature to always remember the bad things more clearly, so don’t let your brain fool you into thinking you are a bad employee.
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Take Initiative
Sometimes work insecurities can arise from being bossed around in the work place. Rather than sitting at your desk and waiting to be assigned a mountain of work, take the initiative and tackle the challenges and assignments that you feel you can bring the most to. Taking the bull by the horns will show your bosses that you aren’t just an employee to be dumped on with stressful tasks all day long.
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Be Vocal
The worst think you can possibly do when you are having trouble with confidence and stress at work is to remain silent about it. If you aren’t being vocal about the struggles that you are having, then your colleagues and superiors won’t know and they won’t be able to help you. If they are unaware, chances are that you will be given more work than you can handle and the vicious cycle with continue. Break the cycle by coming clean about your problems. You will find people much more understanding than you anticipate.
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Mentor Others
Sometimes a great way to get over your lack of confidence and rediscover your mojo is to mentor up-and-coming colleagues in your work environment. Compared to these fresh, nervous faces, you will realise that your own expertise and work methods are perfectly fine, and you will gain great satisfaction and feelings of self worth from being able to impart some of the knowledge to the new people in the office or on the job site. You can do it!
