A confident person has the qualities, skills and intelligence to be successful even in the most challenging situations. Being Self-assured and positive, they face their fears and pursue new challenges and goals,despite the level of difficulty.
The biggest quality of a Confident person is that they believe in themselves and so do others. It is sad that not everyone’s born confident. It can be developed by working on one’s inner strength through discipline, positive thoughts and practice.
We spend a major part of our life at our workplace. At the workplace you will find in every team there will be one or two members who are not affected by anything in the office.In fact they enjoy the workplace.
Why?
Because whatever they do, they do it confidently. Being confident at the workplace is Crucial for one’s Success.
Let’s understand some of the reasons for lack of confidence at the workplace.
- You are new and less experienced than the others around you
- Being new,you feel that you cannot succeed. You doubt your abilities
- You are afraid by the speed of completion of work by your colleague
- Being humiliated publicly for small errors either by your Manager or Team Leader
- Not having a congenial relationship with the boss
- Sometimes a negative peer image also rattles one’s confidence
No worries, we can negate these reasons by bringing about a change in our behaviour.
How?
By boosting our Self Esteem which in turn will help us grow in our career.
Let’s begin by Balancing and Regulating our feelings, emotions and thoughts about Ourselves(Self Awareness) and Our Knowledge.
While we build our confidence we need to be cautious that we do not go overboard i.e become overconfident because overconfidence will make you pick up projects beyond your capabilities and you may end up in failure.We should remain Confident as it is an important trait that helps to build Trust and your Personal Brand. Besides, it helps you to maintain and allure a good team. The most important thing is “ Your Confidence benefits your Employer”
You can follow these 10 tips that will help you to be more confident at work:
1. Appreciate and Challenge yourself
Since our childhood, we have been punished, criticized, or mocked for any wrongs or mistakes we do. As we grow we carry the same programming. On making any mistake or not accomplishing tasks, we start beating ourselves with negative thoughts and words.
Now let’s begin to be kind to ourselves. Appreciate all the small achievements. Look for projects, tasks that are challenging. Use your strengths to make it a success. Even if it means going beyond your Normal.
After completion of the project, make a list of the strengths and the places where you went out of your comfort zone. Read it every day. This will help you to refrain from criticising and judging yourself.
Instead, appreciate yourself for every small step you took. Slowly you will become resilient.
Remember in the office you are under a scanner. Those who have a positive attitude when new challenges shoot up are always looked for. Showing confidence becomes part of your personal branding. So showcase it. It doesn’t matter even if you are a newbie.
2. Identify your AOI (Area of Improvement)
We all have some unique traits(strengths) and some traits which we need to work upon.
Question is, “What should I do?”
Well! Use your strengths to strengthen your personality and work upon the Area Of Improvement. Work upon them rigorously. Make them your strength. Be like the OBSESSED Lover who would go to any extent for his loved one. You will have to leave your comfort zone.
3. “ They(the confident) are Focused on their task”- Staying Focused
The ones who complain about not getting their share of respect or worth at the workplace are often the ones who stray away from their work by the office politics, office rumours or non- productive activities. The key is to add Confidence by having an attitude for Time-bound Work. Stay focused on your task and work upon completing it in due time.
4. Track your achievements
Most of the times we make a mistake of not recording our achievements because they seem to be small. Not keeping a record of our completed tasks hits us especially when you are to be appraised. Make a to do list in your excel sheet. Strike off all completed tasks. Keep a record of all the appreciation emails, both departmental and interdepartmental communication. Keep a track of your daily activities which you complete.
5. Have Faith in yourself by Practising the Format technique
Mistakes are like the seed which comes into your lemonade.Mistakes are inevitably part and parcel when an improvement plan is executed.But by persistent and consistent practice it becomes the foundation for success.
Accepting and working on our mistakes will show the way of applying our strengths and skills in future projects and plans. Basically it is like formatting the mistakes and learning from them to get good results in future.
6. 24hrs-48hrs hrs trick
Many times we know that something is sure to come our way,like a mean comment from your bosses and this comment at that moment may break your confidence. At this point, DO NOT RESPOND. Give yourself a day or two to get back on your feet and then make Respond or make any important decisions.
7. Watch your Body language
We have heard this statement “First Impression is the last impression”. When we see anyone entering a room, we get to know the person’s confidence level by their body language. Feel It ,Your Body language is the signal that is going to tell whether you are confident or not.
Pick up some books on Body language to get additional insights that will add value in correcting your body language. Like a simple handshake talks a lot about your confidence. A whimpering handshake definitely is a show spoiler of your confidence.
8. Choice of Words
Your words exude your confidence. Choose your words well when you are in a meeting, conference where you have important people attending.
Pre-plan, write in bullet points what you have to say. In fact, record your talk or speech and later check out the unnecessary words you spoke. Because words like Umm’s,in seconds will take your credibility and bring your confidence to a Low.
9. Small yet Important things- Dress well, keep your space tidy
We know when we dress well, we exhibit confidence not only in ourselves but others too. Many offices have a “Business casual” dress code, so instead of wearing denims you can replace it with a pair of trousers or a pair of slacks. Besides, it has been found that when you are in a business suit or dress when at work, it increases productivity and builds confidence in doing your work.
You might be wondering, ‘how can keeping your space tidy build confidence’?
Well! If your space is tidy, and if you keep your things properly, it will be easy to find your things rather than searching when someone needs something. Like maintaining files with tags, keeping your stationary in a pouch etc.Keeping your e records in a properly named folder helps you to fetch the record and data easily.People will AWE you for it and it really boosts your confidence.
I am sure you will now be more confident at your workplace.
