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If I asked you to list your personal strengths, would you be able to?

I’m sure you’re an EXPERT at listing your weaknesses. All the things that need improvement, that you don’t know yet or that other people do 'better'.

No doubt you could rattle off at least 20 without a second thought....

Do you doubt yourself at work and worry that you’re not ‘good enough’?

Do those thoughts mean that you second-guess yourself, question your ability to do the job or worry about making mistakes and disappointing people? 

If so, you’re not alone! It’s one of the most common stories I hear from my...

I was working with a client recently and I asked her:

“What’s your economic value to the company you work for?”

The question totally threw her. She could tell me some of her strengths (after a bit of prodding…) but she’d never really thought about herself in economic terms.

What I wanted to know ...

If I asked you to tell me about 10 accomplishments that you’re proud of in your career, would you be able to?

If you struggle to feel confident at work, I suspect the answer is no. Perhaps you can only think of one or two things off the top of your head; perhaps you have to search deep inside your ...

Do you sometimes wish you were a ‘more confident person’? Perhaps you look around at colleagues and put them into ‘confident’ and ‘not confident’ boxes?

You’re not alone! It’s really natural to want to categorise ourselves and other people into boxes. Our brain is doing it all of the time. It makes...

Do you think twice (or not at all…) about going for partnership because you believe you need to be so much ‘better’ to get there? Maybe not ‘perfect’, but definitely a little closer to perfect than you are right now…

After all, right now you make mistakes! You miss ‘important’ points; you don’t kno...

Do you think everyone is more confident than you?

I know EXACTLY how you feel. When I was an associate, I was convinced that everyone around me was twice as confident at me.

But here's what I've discovered over the years .... it's not true. 

The truth is, I really had no idea whether the people a...

I know the feeling. You have a client call scheduled and are desperately over-preparing for fear that someone might ask you a question that.....god forbid...you don't know the answer to! 

The call comes around, the anxiety kicks in and you feel flustered and out of control. Maybe you get through un...

Is this you? Constantly hoping confidence is around the corner…

I get it. When I was a lawyer, I was convinced that I would feel more confident once I mastered that next process or learnt everything there is to know in my area. 

Here’s the problem. The day when I finally knew ‘everything’ never ar...