Career Confidence Coaching
Silence your inner critic and navigate your career with confidence.
- Do you hold back in meetings?
- Do you shy away from sharing your ideas?
- Do you question yourself, feel like a fraud, or feel someone will find you out?
Most of us can think of situations at work where we would like to feel more confident. We want the confidence to speak up in meetings, handle difficult conversations, manage uncertainty, and trust ourselves when things don’t go to plan.
Often, we measure our confidence against our experience, qualifications, knowledge, success, or positive feedback from others and, although these things can certainly help, confidence doesn’t always follow competence.
Have you ever felt confident in one area of your life but lacked it in another? You might feel completely comfortable as a parent, friend, or partner, yet doubt yourself as a professional. You may have years of experience but still feel nervous before a presentation or avoid difficult conversations.
What if confidence isn’t something we need to build, but something that is always available and we simply need to learn how to access it?
The most resilient form of confidence doesn’t come from praise, success, or external validation. It comes from understanding ourselves better, becoming more curious, and recognising that our worth and capability are not determined by a single conversation, decision, or difficult day.
Instead of asking, “How do I become more confident?” it can be helpful to ask,
“What gets in the way of my confidence?”
Career Confidence Coaching with Work4Wellness is a confidential, collaborative process that empowers coachee’s to explore the human side of communication, resilience, and performance, and talk openly and honestly about where they are now, and where they would like to be. Coachee’s challenge their fears and unconscious bias, develop confidence, find clarity and solutions, and develop actional steps to achieve their goals.
Six Session Coaching Roadmap
In the first session we will establish the coaching foundation, including confidentiality and expectations. We will reflect on your career journey to date using a career timeline to explore the factors that have influenced your journey. We can take a look at where you are now and discuss what you need to do first to help you move forward.
The second session is focused on identifying and reflecting your skills, strengths, and achievements. If you don’t know your skills, strengths and achievements already, this session will help you identify and celebrate them; by the end you are going to feel confident about what you can do and offer!
The third session focuses in identifying and articulating your values and motivation, allowing you to develop a compass by which to make decisions and to evaluate whether your values are being served.
The fourth session focuses on identifying and reframing blocks to your confidence. We will identify internal barriers like imposter syndrome, fear of failure, or a desire to people-please and you will learn techniques to reframe self-doubt.
The fifth session is focused on your future goals. We will reflect on your learning from session 1 through to 4 and how you can apply this when developing your future self.
The sixth session will bring the process together. We will review your progress, celebrate your breakthroughs, and create a sustainable, long-term maintenance plan to support you in maintaining your confidence after coaching ends.