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How to Build Confidence at Work

By Ann Howell — 2021

Low confidence is not an inherent flaw, and it doesn’t have to define you. Confidence can be learned and practiced. It begins with becoming more self-aware, changing your mindset, and learning to bring your full self to work—or wherever you go.

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The Assertiveness Workbook: How to Express Your Ideas and Stand Up for Yourself at Work and in Relationships (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)

Effective communication is a critical skill that influences your professional success, the stability of your family life, and your personal happiness. Your ability to communicate effectively is seriously hampered if you can’t assert yourself constructively.

Randy J. Paterson

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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

We attempt or avoid difficult conversations and conflicts every day—whether dealing with an underperforming employee, disagreeing with a spouse, or negotiating with a client.

Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen

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The Skill of Self-Confidence | Dr. Ivan Joseph | TEDxRyersonU

As the Athletic Director and head coach of the Varsity Soccer team at Ryerson University, Dr. Joseph is often asked what skills he is searching for as a recruiter: Is it speed? Strength? Agility? In Dr.

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How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World’s Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs

Based on the highly acclaimed NPR podcast, How I Built This with Guy Raz, this book offers priceless insights and inspiration from the world’s top entrepreneurs on how to start, launch, and build a successful venture.

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The Entrepreneurial Mindset: From Kid to Entrepreneur | Kim Cope | TEDxGastownWomen

In this talk, Kim discusses the incredible capacity that children have for creativity, risk-taking and brushing aside limitations. She explains that the qualities found in successful entrepreneurs are also prevalent in children, and argues that we need to foster these qualities—not squander them.

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Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

From Dani Shapiro, bestselling author of Devotion and Slow Motion, comes a witty, heartfelt, and practical look at the exhilarating and challenging process of storytelling.

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Dealing with Self-Doubt as an Artist: How to Stay Confident and Keep Going

I got a lot of questions about, how do you deal with criticism, with the fear of wasting your art supplies, how do you build and gain confidence in your art, when do you call yourself an artist and how do you even improve your art?

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Empowerment Coach Reveals How to Stop Self-Rejection and Develop Self-Confidence—Roxy Saffaie

Is your greatest enemy, or bully, in life actually yourself? Do you put yourself down, tell yourself, “You can’t do it,” or shut down your own dreams before even giving them a try? On this episode of Women of Impact, empowerment coach, podcast host, writer, and athlete Roxy Saffaie joins Lisa...

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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be “positive” all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people. For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life.

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Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead

A groundbreaking women’s leadership expert and popular conference speaker gives women the practical skills to voice and implement the changes they want to see—in themselves and in the world In her coaching and programs for women, Tara Mohr saw how women were “playing small” in their lives...

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