Here's how you can build confidence in the workplace.

Investigate your Employee Value Proposition, ask your employees what they value as they are your customers. Regular surveys, seek feedback from colleagues and supervisors, and use it constructively to improve. Set small, achievable goals to build a track record of success, and gradually take on more challenging tasks. Cultivate strong communication skills to express your ideas clearly and assertively. Additionally, build a supportive network by fostering positive relationships with coworkers

All of the above is important, but in my experience, it’s key to also make sure you’re in the right role, doing tasks that suit you and your growth needs. This may require a few conversations with your manager and leadership, and possibly some transitioning too. You’ll never feel confident in the wrong job, or one that stifles your skills and growth.

Consider that being successful is key to your motivation to keep going, take risks and ultimately build your confidence. Building confidence is a marathon not a sprint. But you only get there one step at a time. Set short achievable goals and go from there. Enlist your coworkers, your boss (if she/he is open) or even your clients. People love being asked for their advice. Most importantly, stay true to yourself and remember to pursue what is important to you. Never “fake it ‘til you make it”, you’re better than that.

Here too it’s key to align objectives and tasks with a sense of purpose and fit. You can become a master at most tasks and achieve success, but if it all feels wrong and meaningless, your confidence wont build but could even deflate.

In my experience, giving honest and constructive feedback is just as important as receiving it. Make sure this discussion doesn’t just go one way. Especially if you’re having feedback talks within your organization, most tasks, successes and challenges are team issues. Think bigger and view yourself as part of something.

Here I’d add - especially for women in the workforce: make sure your progress, efforts and successes are also recognized. Take credit for your own work, otherwise someone else may. And don’t expect people to know and see what you do: make it public, drop hints, and when needed, defend your accomplishments as your own.

Absolutely critical: know your core network and whom to trust. In tough or competitive times, you need to know who is there for you (to help build or rebuild your confidence), and who may be part of your transactional or even competitive network (they may drop or even use your challenge against you).

in my experience the overall sense of well being and good mental health is achieved when individuals and their teams are aware of and keep to working to the primary task of their organisations. Indices of whether this is being kept to are the other items above on the list I am contributing to.

Find a mentor and / or a coach. Discuss your skills and they will help you understand how they can apply across different roles. They can help you explore your development areas and find strategies to address them.

As an organization, know who you are, think about it, talk about it, be it, and move consistently in that direction. Your people cannot be confident in an environment that talks one way and thinks, acts, and rewards in another way.