Leadership Building confidence as a skill While you can’t control or change how others see you, you can change how you perceive and present yourself. We unpack the very precise art of building your career confidence. By FW Leadership While you can’t control or change how others see you, you can change how you perceive and present yourself. We unpack the very precise art of building your career confidence. By FW Previous article Overcoming perfectionism and fear of failure Next article Breaking stereotypes, inspiring change Whether you are returning to work or study after a career break, looking to change careers or progress in your current role, rebuilding confidence may be your best first step. A loss or lack of confidence can impact anyone, and it’s far more common, amongst women in particular, than you may realise.If you think you’re alone in suffering a loss of confidence, be assured you are not. When starting work on their book, Womenomics, journalists Katty Kay and Claire Shipman talked to dozens of extremely successful women. As they wrote in an article for The Atlantic, they discovered they “kept bumping up against a dark spot that [they] couldn’t quite identify, a force clearly holding them back.” They identified that dark spot as the confidence gap. More From Future Women Leaders How this CEO stamps out passive-aggressive behaviours By FW Leaders The six values guiding this former Premier By FW Leadership New FW partnership to boost number of women in cybersecurity By FW Gender diversity Soft Power By Briana Blackett Gender diversity Be honest. Did you think Bluey was a boy? By Briana Blackett Gender diversity Cyber expert laments “lost generation” in online misogyny panel By Sally Spicer Gender diversity Is this at the bottom of your To-Do list? By Briana Blackett Gender diversity The Confidence Gap By FW Your inbox just got smarter If you’re not a member, sign up to our newsletter to get the best of Future Women in your inbox.
