By mid-career only 57% of women believe that they can advance to senior management. How to move out of your comfort zone to help your career blossom.

1. Self Confidence
at Work...
Tips for Women to
build this
critical
Career
Strength
By mid career...
Self
Confidence
You're not Alone...
Does a lack of
act as a BRAKE on
your career?
1000
57%
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Enter the Workforce with Confidence
they can advance to Senior Management
Women Men
0
20
40
60
80
100
Advance to Senior Management
Only 63% of
that number has
1. IN MEETINGS, speak up less and
are interrupted more often.
to dropped
57%
Sit at the front of the
board room table
Don't wait for pauses in
meetings
Don't apologise for
taking the floor
Speak calmly and
assertively
women
Tips at work and
highlight your true
value
shineto
3. TAKE SPECIFIC
Build ties with a strong
tribe of friends and
mentors
Start a Brag Book - a
journal to recall your
best achievements
Glance through your Brag
book on difficult days to
raise your spirits
Expand your network &
extend it beyond
women's circles
steps
2. DO NOT or dismiss your
accomplishments.
Analyse your specific
contributions
Shift your focus from
errors made to wins
achieved
Describe your
accomplishments with
enthusiasm
Avoid minimising your
role. Ban the phrase 'I'm
quite good'
downplay
muscle
to boost your
confidence.
MOVE out of your
comfort zone
so that
your career
blossoms!
Break
Take
Make
Reject
rules!
risks!
mistakes!
perfectionism!
CONFIDENCE IS A you have to
continue working
on...
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Sources:
2016 survey by Bain & Co and LinkedIn
Work It, Carrie Kerpen