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 Future Women

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 Future Women

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.