How To Boost Your Confidence at Work Place and Fast Excel in Your Career?

In today’s competitive and fast-moving corporate environment, it’s not easy to achieve timely promotion, appraisals, work recognition and credibility from team and management.  However, these professional growth factors rule an individual’s mental and physical well-being. So how to achieve timely professional success? According to Psychologist & Counselor Shivani Misri Sadhoo, timely professional success has a lot to do with the organization the person is working, his/her career planning, his/her competence level BUT an essential factor is the person’s confidence level. 

A balanced confidence level is essential to communicate effectively the personal competence, knowledge, and strength that can help the person to get an ideal organization to work for, win their management’s & co-worker’s confidence and much more. 

According to psychologist Shivani, “building confidence does not require a complete personality overhaul. Instead, you can take smaller steps to become more self-assured and boost your confidence.” Here are some key actions you can take:

1. Push yourself out of your comfort zone

Most people have the tendency to find a comfort zone in their profession, i.e. taking limited responsibility, working within their job roles. Working within the comfort zone may be fine in short term but it deprives a person to learn new skills and develop self-confidence. Hence volunteer for a project that will help you build new skills. Apply for a job that feels like a stretch but matches your interests. Sign up to present or speak at an event and tackle your fear of public speaking head-on.

2. Assess your competencies

Another important factor that damages a people’s confident level is the lack of self-worth or self- realization, i.e. undervaluing self-competence. Hence write down all of the skills you bring to the table right now. Don’t forget to include broader talents that can help your organization succeed -- now and in the future.

3. Create your own environment

Instead of moving on when a workplace doesn’t meet your needs, reshape it through your actions. Work with your team in a way that feels true and honest, sharing your competencies with complete confidence. In doing so, you will brand yourself within your organization and begin to attract people with similar values to your team. As your team expands to include more people similar to your mindset, your environment will evolve to one where you want to work.

4. Make yourself remember.

Always try to make yourself remember that you are more competent than you know and only by doing new things and learning new skills, you can best understand your capabilities. Adopting such mindset will help you take more risks and overcome any fear of failure.