Confident At Work

Does your brain go blank at work sometimes? Mine does. It's actually pretty common. Listen into this week's episode for what you can do to support yourself when your brain goes blank and how to reduce the chances of it happening in the first place. ⁠Take The Quiz: Are You Stuck In A Low Confidence Cycle?⁠ Book a call to talk with Anna about private confidence coaching here.

Beating yourself up in order to 'improve yourself' and ensure that you do your best at work? It is a very common tactic, but does it work? In this episode we look into whether beating yourself up is an effective form of self-management including finding out what the research says! Check out Confident at Work, the on demand digital course for professionals who want to build their confidence and get started building your confidence today.

Do you want to feel more confident at work? Are you technically good at your job but find you privately lack the self-belief and confidence which should come with it? You've found the right place. Every client I worked with was good at their job, but they still didn't feel as confident as they wanted. And they didn't really understand why. After analysing data gathered over 100's of confidence coaching sessions; I saw the patterns. The data showed a particular set of habits and patterns when someone's confidence was lower and a particular set of habits and patterns of behaviour when when someones confidence was higher. I created the high and low confidence cycles as a visual summary - take a look here. In this episode I share how the work I do with clients actually helps them feel more confident and how the Confident at Work course has been built to help anyone identify the habits and patterns currently keeping them in a low confidence cycle, and teach them how to rewire your brain to change those habits and feel more confident at work. Confident At Work course details Purchase the Confident At Work Course here ​

⁠Take The Quiz: Are You Stuck In A Low Confidence Cycle?⁠ Book your free place on the Grow Your Professional Confidence Masterclass. Book a call to explore confidence coaching with Anna.

I want everything to be easy and neat...not messy and difficult. And yet, I choose to do things again and again which are hard. Which test my capability and develop me.   When I reflected on this idea later and I realised I am the same. I want a life that's easy and neat. I want to win all the time but without being exposed to failure and I want to make waves in the world without the potential for disappointment. I do not want life to be messy and difficult but I am choosing a life that will inevitably be messy and difficult, at least in parts. This week I am knee deep in the tech for the digital confidence course I'm making and I spend half my time wondering why it's messy and difficult and the other half realising that is how it is going to be if I am choosing a challenge. ⁠Take The Quiz: Are You Stuck In A Low Confidence Cycle?⁠ Book our next free Grow Your Professional Confidence Masterclass. Book a call to speak to Anna about private confidence coaching.

Anna was interviewed Zoë Haydn Jones for the Jobs for Women Podcast and we are sharing that interview here! Join us to dive into all things confidence in professional spaces. Anna shares her career pathway and choices, my moments of self-doubt, victories, and passion for helping others improve their own confidence and we delve into many issues faced by many professionals today. From women grappling with the gap between their evident competence and confidence to the underrecognised role of internal dialogues and self-perception in shaping professional confidence, and even addressing children’s fears around societal judgement – this conversation is a comprehensive exploration of confidence in today’s world. Anna and Zoe engage in a thought-provoking discussion about the importance of introspective work to overcome confidence obstacles, underlining the universality of these struggles due to shared human brain behavior patterns. Anna shares the secret behind her process to supporting clients to transform their confidence, by first helping them to transform their “internal environment” into a nurturing and supportive one, from which, confidence grows naturally. Delve into this enlightening episode, as Anna Manning and Zoe Haydn Jones unpack the significance of self-awareness, self-perception, and positive internal dialogue in fostering a more confident, resilient, and successful professional identity. ⁠Take The Quiz: Are You Stuck In A Low Confidence Cycle?⁠ Jobs for Women (JFW) is an inclusive jobs board and podcast connecting untapped, talented women (at college, university, or employed) in underrepresented industries and equitable companies committed to consistently improving diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). Book your free place in next Grow Your Professional Confidence Masterclass now.

Lots of people feel uncomfortable talking about themselves, the work that they have done and the success they have had. But there’s times when it’s necessary and times when it’s helpful to you and your career. This episode will help you discover why you find it difficult and what you can do to make it a little bit easier. ⁠Take The Quiz: Are You Stuck In A Low Confidence Cycle?⁠

All leaders and managers have to give feedback at work, and sometimes it feels difficult. In this episode we dig into why it can be difficult to give feedback, I share examples from coaching leaders on giving difficult feedback and share some ideas for you can develop your ability to give difficult feedback. ⁠Take The Quiz: Are You Stuck In A Low Confidence Cycle?⁠ Book a call with Anna to explore private coaching. Get confidence coaching in your inbox each week.

A conversation about the gap between knowing you are competent and actually feeling it. Discussion of how internal doubt undermines speaking up, delegating, deciding and presenting at work. Practical pathways to move from intellectual knowledge to embodied confidence, including tracking evidence and intentional rewiring. Encouragement that this shift can happen within months with focused practice.

Meet Daniela, a Senior Healthcare Scientist in the NHS and graduate of the Confident at Work Programme. This week we hear what has changed for Daniela in the two years since she joined the Confident at Work programme. She shares her fear of making presentations, over-preparing, struggles with speaking up in meetings, saying no and how things have changed at work and at home, now her confidence has grown. Take The Quiz: Are You Stuck In A Low Confidence Cycle? Book a call to speak with Anna about private confidence coaching.