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Sometimes the only thing holding you back from applying for a new job, making a change in your working life or volunteering to do something is a lack of confidence.
It is not enough to be able to do a thing: you have to KNOW that you can do it. Confidence is a conscious state of knowing that you are competent to do something, and is built by consciously recognising and celebrating your achievements.
For example, you may feel afraid of making a speech to an audience at a big conference. During a coaching session Joanna would help you to recognise that you know the subject well, and are usually quite happy doing presentations on the subject to a small group, have a clear speaking voice and are quite eloquent when chatting with colleagues and friends. Realising that you have all of these abilities, and that the only thing which is different is the size of audience helps you focus on the far simpler matter of the delivery – such as speaking a little louder or learning how to use an autocue. You are then able to build on what you can already do, rather than focus on what you are afraid you cannot do.
Building self confidence is about identifying the small steps to take, by identifying past successes or areas of confidence and drawing parallels with future challenges or things that you are not confident they can do. For instance, some women are not confident about returning to work after years of running a home and family. Coaching would help them to realise that they are good at managing the unpredictable, organising information, juggling multiple diaries or commitments and marshalling the family to work together on projects. It makes it very difficult then for them to deny that they could manage a job or a team. Once they realise they already do this, their confidence to do so in a new circumstance follows.