Confidence

Table of contents:

How to build confidence: become more self-assured at work /​ by Amy Gallo
Overcome the eight barriers to confidence: from self-defeating assumptions to defensiveness to arrogance /​ by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Everyone suffers from impostor syndrome-here's how to handle it: change your frame of mind when you're feeling inadequate /​ by Andy Molinsky
Mental preparation secrets of top athletes: how rituals can help you manage your anxiety, an interview with Daniel McGinn /​ by Sarah Green Carmichael
Research-learning a little about something makes us overconfident: experience can be deceiving, especially to novices /​ by Carmen Sanchez and David Dunning
To ace your job interview, get into character and rehearse: develop new parts of yourself through performance /​ by Cathy Salit
Ways to look more confident during a presentation: what your body language signals to your audience /​ by Kasia Wezowski
You don't just need one leadership voice, you need many: be more authentic and inspire confidence in others /​ by Amy Jen Su
Cultivate a culture of confidence: build team resilience to recover from setbacks /​ by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Great leaders are confident, connected, committed, and courageous: gather your emotional courage in the face of risk /​ by Peter Bregman
Helping an employee overcome their self-doubt: address their inner critic head-on /​ by Tara Sophia Mohr
To seem confident, women have to be seen as warm: female leaders face an unfair standard /​ by Margarita Mayo
Why do so many incompetent men become leaders?: don't confuse confidence with competence /​ by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Less-confident people are more successful: self-criticism can be motivating /​ by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic.

You need confidence to inspire trust, communicate effectively, and succeed in your organization. But self-doubt and nerves can undermine your ability to act decisively and persuade others. What can you do to push past these insecurities? This book explains how you can use emotional intelligence to become more confident at work. You'll learn how to correct what is holding you back, how to overcome imposter syndrome, and when feeling too self-assured can actually backfire. This volume includes the work of: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Amy Jen Su, and Peter Bregman. How to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of "Harvard Business Review." Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

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