One Question Project: Mira Vasic
What is your way to getting more self confidence?
I believe that self confidence is a skill that can be trained and learned. I think that our level of self confidence is influenced by the way we are biologically made, the way we were nurtured and by our work and life surroundings. Nevertheless, we do have a strong influence on our self confidence level and we can increase it.
Here are my top 3 ways of getting more self confident:
1. Collect positive feedback from other people - Ask other people to give you feedback about your performances and then collect all positive feedback in one document. Every time you are about to have an important meeting, milestone review, interview or presentation, read this ‘positive feedback document’ and remind yourself how good your performances are.
2. Celebrate your successes - At the end of each week, schedule 15-min in your calendar to reflect on your successes of the week. Think of what you have accomplished, but have not yet received any compliment or appraisal from other people. Write down 3 such successes every week and collect them in a document. At the beginning of the following week, read successes from the past week and remind yourself how successful actually you are.
3. Own and celebrate your successes - Use opportunities to share your successes with other people from your work and private life. Exercise to accept their compliments and don’t make them smaller. Own what you have achieved and be proud of yourself!
About Mira:
I am a career consultant, executive coach and keynote speaker on Female Leadership & Gender Diversity with a great deal of experience in engineering and technology. I believe that the world would be a better place for everyone if women would have more influence on the world.
This is why I help women to get more influence on their own careers and on the world and why I help organisations to become more (gender) diverse and truly inclusive.
I've started my career as an engineer specialised in helping historical buildings to stand safe. I have always had a passion for career coaching and I was helping women in getting the job they deserve and getting properly paid for that as well. After getting my PhD and working for many years in the commercial, nonprofit and governmental sector, I realised a big bold truth.
Even when the number of girls and boys is equal during their study period, the moment you start looking higher in the corporate and/or academic ladder, there are much less women than men. Yes that is still the case! Much less women than men.
Therefore, during the Covid-19 pandemic, I've decided to leave my corporate job to actively help women to get more influence on their own careers and on the world. Because with all my heart I believe that the world would be a better place for everyone if women would lead more negotiation processes, create national policies and corporate strategies, or decide on research funding.