Pushing Your Envelope: How to Overcome Impostor Syndrome Once and For All!
You’re talented, accomplished, and successful. You are a technical expert or a high-level manager. People think you have it all together. Yet you still think to yourself “Oh my gosh! I don’t t know what I’m doing! And everyone is about to figure it out! They’re on to me!”
Many smart and successful people have a great resume with a long list of accomplishments, but they don’t feel confident. They are an overachiever, but an under-believer. It’s a cognitive distortion that is especially prevalent in technical and creative fields.
They suffer from Impostor Syndrome.
Is this you? Or someone you know?
It’s estimated that 70% of people suffer from this. That alone should give you encouragement: You are not alone. But be even more encouraged! There are proven strategies that can silence that impostor voice so you can embrace your success and be confident to move further ahead without fear of being unmasked as a fake. You can be released from the clench of the counterfeit.
In this session, learn 4 powerful techniques that can lead you to true confidence and the freedom to flourish. You can grab greater opportunities, have bigger dreams, and extend a wider influence. You won’t have to feel like a fraud anymore. Instead, you’ll feel GREAT about being great!
Attendees will:
- Understand the causes, symptoms, and likely “victims” of the Impostor Syndrome.
- Learn a 3-step strategy to turn down the volume of the Impostor voice in your head.
- Explore how engaging in community can further diminish the Impostor syndrome
- Learn a methodical process of documenting successes and accomplishments so you can match confidence to competence.
Leadership is NOT Rocket Science: How to Turn Your Superstars into Supernovas
You would never believe that your high performers have THIS problem. They’re great people, and they appear confident and secure. You’ve provided professional development training and talk about having the right mindset. But there’s a hidden problem that’s killing their creativity and sapping their energy.
It’s a little-known fact that the #1 issue holding your team back from truly epic performance is something called “Impostor Syndrome.” It’s the secret self-doubt that plagues even the smartest most accomplished people, causing them to discount and doubt their ability. It’s choking their confidence, sapping their energy, and making them feel unqualified to take on new challenges. Despite being well trained and prepared, they often feel as if they’ll be revealed as a fraud or impostor on the job. Surprisingly, even your highest performers and leaders may be experiencing this limiting restriction.
Don’t believe it? Ask a NASA research engineer. Maureen Zappala lived with Impostor Syndrome for years, even as a successful NASA propulsion researcher. Since then, she’s developed strategies that will alleviate this irrational fear, unleash your team’s productivity and explode their confidence. These simple but powerful strategies will show you how to guide your team to readjust their perspective on their skills and rethink their potential. They can begin to stand up, step up, and rise up to new challenges; they’ll learn new technology, and accept new assignments. You’ll be able to retrain, reskill, and upskill your re-energized people to begin to fill a skill gap, without having to go outside your organization.
When your team overcomes their Impostor Syndrome, they’ll contribute to the growth of your organization, giving you the competitive edge you need. It will offset the impact of any skill shortage by allowing you to dig deeper into your existing workforce because your people will be more able to live to their full professional and personal potential.
Recognizing and overcoming Impostor Syndrome will result in a stronger, more confident, and more courageous workforce. In this session, attendees will learn the 4 pillars of the “Fraud-Free Framework” so they can re-calibrate their thinking, and will begin to believe they’re as smart as everyone else thinks they are.
Attendees will learn:
- The symptoms and likely “victims” of the Impostor Syndrome, enabling you as a leader to develop a strategy to lead your team through it.
- How to encourage your team to recalibrate the destructive thought process that keeps them stuck, so they can believe they are as smart as everyone thinks they are. They’ll move from pitiful to powerful.
- Specific techniques for eliminating the “compare and despair” panic that sets in when surrounded by people who seem to be more skilled or smarter.
- How developing relationships with professional peers can alleviate the worst fraud fears.
How to Present Like A Pro, Even if You’re NOT!
Most people hate boring presentations. So, don’t give one! When you’re polished, engaging, and persuasive, your audience stays plugged into your message, not their phone.
In this session, you’ll learn the Five Non-Negotiable-Must-Have-But-Often-Omitted-Game-Changing-And-Astoundingly-Simple ingredients presentation ingredients that will inspire your audience to act. You can start becoming a master communicator because your presentation will transform people, giving them an experience that they will remember, with ideas they will use.
Attendees will learn:
- How to find, develop, and tell powerful stories that will engage your audience from your first words.
- How to keep your content focused on one main message so your audience always knows where you’re going.
- Creative ways to add impact to your presentation with research, data, resources, and supporting material.
- A surprisingly simple technique that many professional presenters neglect, that will cause your listeners to take immediate action.
- The secrets to engaging even a tough or disinterested audience.
