Enhancing your confidence!

A confident person is calm and cool under most circumstances. They carry themselves with confidence and command respect without even asking for it. How are they able to do this? Enhancing your confidence is easy but not something that you can do overnight. Here are some key steps that will steer you in the right direction.

• Increase your general awareness: It is essential that you are a Jack of most trades here. You need not be a master/expert in all the domains that are related to your field – but you must be knowledgeable about it to a certain extent.
• Network with others: Most superiors and potential employers appreciate employees who are able to work together as a team. Lack of awareness and interpersonal skills will make you feel under confident. The more you interact and ask questions – the more you learn. This enhances your confidence to a great extent.
• Know your own strengths and weaknesses: Analyse your strengths and weaknesses once you have gained some work experience. Focus on improving your strengths and making them your area of expertise. Develop the skills to enhance your weaknesses. The progress in this area may be slow – but you will develop soft skills like persistence, patience and understanding as you do so. These are all traits that enhance your confidence in the long run.
• Ask for help: No one is perfect or has complete knowledge about everything. A confident person knows his strengths and asks for help when he needs it. Remember, an entire organization is rooted in team spirit. Confident people do not hesitate to ask questions if they do not know something. They are aware of other people who are experts in this area and will ask them for their opinions when the situation demands.
• Be willing to help: When you help other people without creating a racquet, people appreciate it more. This enhances your confidence and creates a good reputation.

Investing in relationships, understanding people, expert knowledge about your domain and a general awareness about other domains are sure shot ways of enhancing your confidence. It takes time, but the efforts are always worth it!!