Class Details
Confidence at Work Course: A Toolkit for Professionals
Course summary
Are you ready to unlock your true potential? If low confidence, imposter syndrome or shyness have been holding you back, it's time to break free. Do you want to show more self-assurance when talking to colleagues and customers, participating in meetings, presenting ideas or building your career? This course will show you how to increase your confidence using tools from positive psychology. Learn how to challenge the thinking habits that drive self-doubt, fear of failure and self-consciousness. Discover how to manage your emotions and build a confident mindset, so you feel higher levels of personal power and self-belief.
Aims
This course aims to equip you with increased self-belief and confidence. You will leave with reliable tactics for boosting your wellbeing and reducing ‘learned helplessness’. This will help you on your journey to renewed self-assurance, confidence and personal power.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this course, you should be able to:
- regulate your emotions to increase your personal power and confidence
- build a positive self-image so you can reduce self-consciousness and increase self-assurance
- cultivate an optimistic outlook by focusing on your strengths and using solution-focused thinking tools
- use ‘thought disputation’ to overcome feelings of helplessness or overwhelm
- reduce fear of failure, perfectionism and imposter syndrome by strengthening your self-compassion
- apply the strategies you have learned to a range of situations – including meetings, job interviews, performance appraisals, client interactions and when providing professional advice.
Content
Defining confidence
You can't build your confidence if you don't understand what it is. In this module, you will explore different forms of confidence and learn how to cultivate them. You will also discuss the difference between confidence, competence, assertiveness and high self-esteem. During this section of the course, you will pinpoint your specific learning objectives and get tips on how to achieve them.
Building emotional mastery
Confident people have high emotional intelligence. They are able to recognise and regulate their emotions rather than living in 'reactive mode'. In this session, you will experiment with simple mood regulation techniques. These include tracking your moods, working on your daily positivity ratio and learning to reframe emotions.
Enhancing your self-image
Self-perception is a key element of social confidence. After all, there are strong links between your self-image and what you believe others think about you. In this module, you'll explore ways that self-awareness can be distorted, leading to self-consciousness and even social anxiety. You'll also discover how the acronym CUBED can help you beat this kind of distorted thinking.
Leveraging your strengths
It's hard to be confident when you see the world as a threatening place. In this module, you will explore practical strategies for developing and empowering, optimistic mindset. First, you'll learn to leverage your personal strengths instead of dwelling on perceived limitations. Then you'll discover a new way to tackle setbacks, using solution-focused thinking tools.
Breaking free of limiting beliefs
As the old saying goes, ″whether you believe you can or believe you can't – you're right.″ So, what can you do if you have beliefs that hold you back? In this module, you'll get answers to that million-dollar question. You'll learn how to recognise the thinking patterns that generate limiting beliefs. Then you'll experiment with using the ABCD technique to challenge those patterns. Along the way, you'll learn about self-efficacy and how to boost it using ‘implementation intention statements’.
Moving from self-sabotage to self-compassion
Do you unconsciously sabotage your own success? It's time to stop being your own worst enemy. In this module you'll hear about a surprising link between shame and self-sabotage. Then you'll learn how to beat fear of failure, perfectionism and imposter syndrome using an evidence-based self-compassion model.
Who this course is for
This introductory course is suitable for professionals who want to build their confidence levels or beat imposter syndrome.
Delivery modes
- Face-to-face, presenter-taught workshop
- Online workshop via the platform Zoom
Delivery style
This course is interactive and based on experiential learning. You will be involved in group conversations, discussing case studies and completing written exercises. There will be several opportunities to ask the course facilitator questions or request tips for dealing with your real-life situations. You will get the most from this course if you are:
- willing to contribute to group discussions
- confident communicating verbally in English
- comfortable participating in role-play style activities
- using a computer with a working camera and microphone (if enrolling in an online session of the course).
Materials
All course materials are provided electronically using Dropbox.
Sessions
Location
Face-to-face (Venue TBA, Sydney)
Other information
If your upcoming class is Face-to-face (Venue TBA, Sydney), the class is located at the Camperdown/Darlington campus but the exact classroom and building has not been assigned.
The exact location on campus is confirmed approximately five business days from a class start date and you will then receive a course preparation email with this information.
Meet the facilitators
Eleanor Shakiba
Eleanor Shakiba is an expert in positive psychology. She has taught over 50,000 people to think and speak in ways which build success.
Eleanor started her career as a writer. Next, she discovered a passion for adult education and moved into a training role at the University of Sydney. Today, she works as a training consultant and corporate coach. She specialises in the areas of communication skills, applied psychology and business applications of positive psychology.
The focus of Eleanor’s work is teaching technically savvy professionals to create, relate and communicate. She delivers a range of services to the corporate world, including positive psychology courses; leadership training and coaching; team building and strategic planning sessions; communication and conflict resolution workshops.
Eleanor is the author of Difficult People Made Easy and is currently writing her second book, 6 Habits of Savvy Female Negotiators. She has also created over ninety training programs and a range of online learning courses.
Eleanor is qualified in Social Anthropology, Adult Education, Counselling and Positive Psychology. She delights in helping professionals learn skills for success in the real world, using experiential (interactive) learning techniques. Her students describe Eleanor as ‘a lively and enthusiastic presenter who can keep you engaged for hours.’
