How can you develop self-worth and authenticity at work?

Picture this: a conference room, tech experts everywhere, and there I was, the only woman. It felt daunting, but it was in that moment of doubt that I recalled my roots and the path I'd carved from a small town in Ukraine to global tech leadership. So, how do you foster self-worth and authenticity in such settings? Start by acknowledging your unique experiences. Remember, no one else has walked in your shoes. Embrace your individuality, express your ideas with conviction, and always be open to growth. Authenticity is a journey, and it begins with valuing yourself.

To develop self-worth and authenticity at work place should identify the strengths and weaknesses as the first place. And also it is important to set self goals, which are realistic and achievable to reinforce the sense of worth.

What are your superpowers? Take some time to recognize what makes you awesome. Write down your strengths and values, like being a great problem solver or caring deeply about teamwork. Keep this list handy to remind yourself how awesome you are!

Boost self-worth by identifying strengths and values. Reflect on what you excel at and what matters to you. Regularly review to reinforce positivity and align actions with purpose.

Organisations are political. Make peace with it. Blaming people or culture or Work-From-Office will not help. Wherever there is scarcity, there will be politics. Can you learn to deal with it? It is a skill like any other.

Our negative thoughts and beliefs arise alongside emotions activated by a specific event, situation, or interaction with another person. We may not like feeling some of our negative emotions, but they serve important and adaptive functions in providing us with information and motivating us. What can we learn from what we think or feel? Some cultures, for example, rely on the positive potential of shame in that it lends itself to personal growth. Rather than challenge our negative beliefs and feelings, we may ask ourselves what we can learn from them.

Improve self-worth by challenging negative thoughts. Question their validity, replace with supportive statements, practice gratitude, and seek feedback. This reframes perspective and fosters a positive mindset.

Ever had those pesky little thoughts saying you're not good enough? Well, it's time to kick them to the curb! When those negative thoughts pop up, challenge them! Ask yourself, "Is this thought really true?" Replace them with positive ones like, "I'm doing my best, and that's amazing!"

Negative thinking is one symptom of imposter syndrome (self-doubt, self-criticism, etc.) and the methods suggested here can help relieve some of the stress. But it does not remove it, because the cause of imposter syndrome is the belief in conditional worth which is a deep identity-level belief. This belief is not responsive to self-talk, but a specific process (that makes use of the brain's mechanism for creating such beliefs) will completely overwrite the belief. When you do this, effortless confidence, authenticity, self-acceptance, and a sense of unconditional worth naturally emerge. This needs a specific, systematic process to update the part of the brain

I gave the best years of my life to an organization that valued me and my skills, but had no interest in who I was as a person. I learned that if I did not see my own self-worth, how could I expect them to? So I pushed myself harder to show that I could do it all, and I succeeded. BUT (and yes, there's a but) in the process I lost ALL my self-worth. I was the dependable, trustworthy, ethical employee but had no energy or time to build and connect with my own family the way I wished to. I learned that by being you, being the authentic you that you be, you will acknowledge your highest self-worth and in so doing, will be appreciated, recognized and applauded as a driven, ethical, no nonsense employee that every company would love to have.

Set clear boundaries for yourself and others. Say "no" to tasks that don't align with your goals and negotiate deadlines that work for you. Don't forget to express your needs and opinions like a confident ninja!

This is extremely important not just for building your self-worth but, also, for your mental, emotional, and physical, and social health. And yes for making time for personal growth.

When an emotion is activated, it enters our consciousness and becomes linked with memories where an emotion was triggered in similar situations. Along with the context of our culture and environment, this creates the emotion we feel-as-sensation, and our responses to it. This complex process produces the distinctive ways each of us experience and express emotion and how we respond to the emotions of others. It makes for interesting differences among people. In one sense, how we experience and respond to emotion illustrates diversity. All of our beliefs-- our values, religious practices, and even our political preferences--have to do with our lifetime of emotional responses that have become linked to an ideology.

These steps are very hard to do when you have imposter syndrome because your brain is telling you that they are dangerous - at an unconscious level. There needs to be a caveat - try them and see if they feel good. If they don't, don't blame or criticize yourself. Understand that any difficulty with them is due to the belief that drives imposter syndrome. The ultimate solution is to change that belief, and when you do, all of these steps become easy to do. Your authenticity, social connection, natural resilience, and confidence bubble up because you've been freed from what's been keeping them down/stuck.

Learning new skills and taking risks can result in enormous pride. If we maintain the attitude that we will learn from any shame we may encounter in the process, we will profit from the experience.

Imposter syndrome is not about being a beginner, so the solution to it is not increasing skills and practising. Imposter syndrome strikes skilled, experienced people who know logically that they are successful but still don't feel good enough despite their success. If you have low self-esteem (which is not imposter syndrome) then developing new skills is a great way to boost your confidence.

Authentic self is an over-rated misconception. You were never this aware. Your authentic self without that training would not have reached here. You changed your authentic knowledge to improve it. Similarly, you can improve your behavior, your habits, and your demeanor to suit your current conditions.