The Consulting Mindset: Building Your Confidence And Tackling Insecurities
False bravado doesn't help anyone. It's important to build the right kind of confidence to become a successful consultant.
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Consulting requires a healthy level of confidence.
A common barrier to succeeding as a consultant is a lack of confidence. If you don’t have the confidence to speak in front of an audience, proactively engage a client, disagree when needed and sell with integrity, success might remain elusive.
So how do you build a healthy level of confidence?
What Is Confidence?
Confidence is essentially the degree of trust you have that a desirable outcome will materialise (hence, a confidence interval in statistics).
For example…
Do you have a high degree of trust that stakeholders will respond positively to you or not?
Do you have a high degree of trust that people will like your talk or not?
Do you have a high degr…
