What are some effective ways to build your confidence at work?

Measure your progress against this criteria: "To lead is to serve." If you make a small shift from getting to giving, it is a huge confidence builder. It takes the focus off of you and puts it on others. Focussing on others makes you appreciated and admired by those others, a huge confidence builder.

Getting Feedback is great and confident people know how to give and receive feedback! One of my key rules is to learn to identify feedback from criticism. How? First, Constructive Feedback is always based on facts and data and is specific and actionable. Criticism is "feedback" about the personality and the values and for me is not valid. Second, what I used to share with my clients is to not take feedback or criticism from people they don't take advice from!

Celebrate achievements is a great confidence booster. High achiever people are always chasing the next big project, the next box to check without taking time to celebrate and be grateful. Celebrating milestones and practicing self-compassion and discipline is one of the great road to success

Take the opportunity to write down all the achievements in your life of which you’re most proud. You’ve done more than you think in your decades on earth. If you follow through with this, your confidence will soar! Contact me if you’d like a guide for this activity.

Ask others for feedback about their experiences with you, even those whom you think may have negative feedback for you. You may be surprised to find that many will provide feedback, and very few will provide negative feedback, though you may get eye-opening information you can use to help you grow.

Don't let fear win. It's really easy to avoid the feedback part of our careers. Don't avoid it actively pursue it. You won't learn to improve otherwise.

Visualization is a very powerful tool. Close your eyes and picture yourself succeeding. See yourself speaking confidently, handling tasks with ease, and being congratulated for a job well done. Along with this, use affirmations. Tell yourself, "I am capable," "I am confident," and "I can handle this." These positive statements are like fuel for your self-confidence.

Take regular time to reflect. When you rush through every day, the week, month, and year go by with so many opportunities missed to learn from your wins as well as your misses. To build confidence, stop and examine your thougths up close. You'll begin to 'hear' what's going on behind the scenes - an entire world going to battle between your ears and you are the director - but only if you take an active part in that role, otherwise, you'll just be the observer watching life happen to you. Reflection helps you to make a decision where you want to direct your thoughts, what conclusions you draw from scenarios, and what other viewpoints and possibilities exist. Choices like this give you agency and agency brings increments of confidence.