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Recognizing Your Own Abilities
One aspect of being competent but not confident is underselling, even underappreciating, our own personal skills as they relate to our brand or reputation. Perhaps because we feel we can’t be our true selves at work, we neglect to offer the intense value inherent in what we alone can bring to the workplace equation.
Competence, Confidence, and the “Click”
The big message in all of this is what I call the click, which is when a woman’s confidence and competence connect to each other and serve her well. At Half The Sky as well as in my coaching practice, I work with women who are not newcomers in their careers; they have been working for 10 or 15 years and they don’t suffer from lack of intelligence, know-how, experience, ...
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