Seven Reasons Why You Need Fun at Work
“When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.” Simon Sinek
How the heck does leaving someone out equal belonging?!
You’ve doubtless heard of – and hopefully practise! – DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion). But have you heard of DEIB?
Are you in the right job for confidence?
Can we train for confidence, or do naturally confident people arrive naturally at these jobs? Luckily, it’s proven that we can.
Confidence Isn’t Clear-Cut
Confidence is the art of being comfortable with uncertainty. Sounds oxymoronic, right? Confidence is acting strong and making a choice, surely.
Confidence and Failure: Two Sides of the Same Coin
By the same token, failure can often seem to turn up more often the more confident you feel. That’s because failure is often a by-product of your increased risk-taking that confidence inevitably brings. FAFO, as they say on Twitter.
What Kind of Confident Do You Want To Be?
Do you wish you were more confident? You can be – it simply takes awareness and practice. So how about you pick which *kind* of confident you plan to be?
How to Build Confidence And Be Less Nervous
So I’m asking myself, what’s brought about this change? And as I got into it, I realised that I wanted to formulate a path towards confidence for you, too, and make a list of tips and hints. Cue an appropriate challenge: to post a Confidence Trick per day on LinkedIn (Follow at www.linkedin.com/company/the-offer-bank/ . Search #TheOfferBankConfidenceTricks for all 30 posts.
Scared of Public Speaking? “We’ve Got To Go Through It!”
When I'm coaching people to greater confidence when speaking in public or in groups, they always ask me how they can be 'fast-tracked'. "What's the secret?" they say. What they really mean is: "How do I get to achieve this immediately without any feeling of discomfort?" This scary, brain-frying headspace – known in psychological terms as 'conscious incompetence' – is there for a reason: so that you can be creative, learn your craft, practice a heap of strategies... and become satisfyingly resilient along the way.
Confidence and Control in Business via Improv
With luck (and not too much self-justification or defensiveness), the right balance of control and confidence means you'll swerve a debilitating mish-mash of controlling behaviour, bravado, bullsh*t and avoidance.