Career Talk: Learn - Grow - Thrive

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Dictonary.com

The persistent inability to believe that one's success is deserved or has been legitimately achieved as a result of one's own effort or skills

Imposter Syndrome is very prevalent in the workplace

The why isn't always going to be clear

Every person is a human, all humans think differently, have different pasts, different traumas, different work experiences, different school experiences, etc.

Signs of imposter syndrome:

1. Self-doubt
2. Self-sabotage
3. Perfectionism
4. Difficulty accepting praise
5. Negative self talk
6. Constantly comparing yourself to others
7. Overachieving
8. Fear of failure
9. Minimizing your success
10. Fear you won't live up to expectations
11. Burnout
12. Workaholic - too many hours
13. Minimize your brilliance
14. Constant need for external validation
15. Lacking confidence
16. Difficulty dealing with pressure
17. Anxiety
18. Feeling like you're not good enough
19. Distrust or ignoring your intuition
20. You're the best of worst, no middle ground
21. Not applying to jobs despite being qualified

What causes imposter syndrome?

A lot of things can cause us to get imposter syndrome

A few examples:

• School or work pressure
• Childhood experiences (constantly being criticized)
• Perfectionism
• Mental health status - bad week
• Mental health disorders (examples: OCD, Anxiety)
• Success - achieved it but feel you don't deserve it
• Personality traits
• Lack of diversity and representation
• Major life changes
• Societal expectations

I've personally struggled with imposter syndrome many times.

Sometimes it's a phase of life that it something I had to work through for extended periods of time (Example - layoff )

Others it may pop up quickly and temporarily (Example - working on website)

How can imposter syndrome impact your career?

1. Work-life balance problems
2. Burnout
3. Missed opportunities
4. Trash communication
5. Lack of career progression
6. Decreased career satisfaction
7. Fear of failure (analysis paralysis)
8. Lack of self-development or motivation to do any
9. Procrastination
10. Confidence takes a hit

Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

1. Own it / acknowledge it
2. Talk about it
3. Retrain your mind (correct self-doubting thoughts, turn them into affirmations and keep repeating them)
4. Ask for help/support
5. Learn to accept praise
6. Take time for mindfulness and / or meditation
7. Set realistic goals
8. Learn to be flexible (goals, perfectionism)
9. Learn new skills
10. May want or need to get help from a counselor or therapist, etc.
11. Facts vs feelings (great review vs feeling like you're not doing enough)
12. Embrace failure and the lessons it brings
13. Remind yourself of whats important to you
14. Recognize and stop the spiral
15. Talk to yourself how you'd talk to your best friend (kindness, compassion)

Have you ever wondered how to better sell yourself in an interview?

Or have you ever wondered how you could make yourself stand out from other people who are applying to the same positions?

Instead of going through sales tactics, let’s talk about what candidates do that set themselves apart from the others.

What candidates do to set themselves apart in an interview:

1) Research

2) Asking questions throughout the conversation

3) Tie it all in or connect the dots on their experience

Thank you so much for listening.

I would love to connect and learn how I can help you! Connect with me below!!!

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Feedback is so important, I cannot stress enough how important feedback is.

Here’s a question for you:

Do you ask for feedback often? At work? At home? With friends?

Why or why not?

Take some time to think about that.

Am I asking my boss for feedback?

Am I asking my colleagues for feedback?

Am I asking my spouse at home for feedback?

Am I asking my family for feedback?

Am I asking my friends what their thoughts are?

This is really important.

Specifically as it relates to our career, feedback is a really interesting part of our jobs that most of us only receive once a year.

Often it’s in the form of annual review, performance review or a merit increase conversation.

It is usually a very formal conversation and often it is not very helpful or productive.

All employees care about what their raise is going to be.

Often managers need to just get the reviews done.

I want you to think about how you can get more feedback throughout the year so you can constantly be improving.

If you sit down with your boss and they tell you hey Steph I think you did a really good job in A, B, C categories, I think you could use improvements in D, E and F categories and here are some examples from 3, 6 and 11 months ago.

What?!?! Why wouldn’t we get that feedback right away and on the spot.

Here’s the deal, you need to ask for the feedback.

Ask hey manager how can I improve? What suggestions for you have for me?

You need to be the one who takes charge of the conversation.

THEN you need to be grateful for whatever the response is.

Feedback is a gift.

EVEN if we don’t like the feedback we get.

It tells us how we can improve and what people’s perceptions are of you.

It is a gift.

Even if you disagree, even if you think it’s complete bullshit.

Now you know!

Don’t react in a negative way if you get bad feedback, don’t get defensive, take notes, ask follow up questions.

You want to make the conversation easy so the person will want to share their feedback with you in the future.

Ask questions like:

How can I improve X metric?

What areas can I improve in?

Where do I do well?

What are my strengths?

Don’t forget to share your gratitude for the feedback!!!

Thank you so much for listening.

I would love to connect and learn how I can help you! Connect with me below!!!

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Have an amazing, awesome, rockin day!!!

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