Your best sides. Be more confident and self-reliant at work!

Your best sides
Be more confident and self-reliant at work!

Solid self-confidence and self-reliant appearance are essential success factors in professional life and enable us to make the most of our personal potential. Moreover, self-confidence and high self-esteem often correspond with more overall contentment and higher stress tolerance. Not surprisingly, meters of bookshelves could be filled with advice literature.

However, while many authors focus on body language, rhetoric or presentation skills, self-confidence and self-reliance are mostly developed and strengthened from within. They are closely interconnected with your attitudes, the awareness of your capabilities and special qualities as well as a benevolent evaluation of your personal potential − and of what may remain out of reach.

These three points are exactly what we will focus on during this workshop. Let’s jointly examine your best sides! Let’s explore strategies to boost your self-esteem! Let’s overcome mental hurdles which have hindered you from becoming the best version of yourself!

Target Group

University employees, who intend to further develop their personalities, make confidently the most of their potentials in professional life and achieve more overall contentedness.

Workshop Goals

At the end of the workshop, you will have an overview of

• all of your best sides (also unknown ones so far!)
• your current self-confidence in various areas and
• strategies to gain more self-confidence and contentment in your professional life and to fulfill your personal professional ambitions.

Workshop Content

• Check your personal concepts – What does self-confidence, self-esteem, self-reliance mean to you?
• Explore the four columns of your self-esteem
• Discover your special qualities and uniqueness
• Learn strategies to increase your self-esteem and get rid of habits which are undermining it
• Formulate your ambition – How will you make the most of your talents?

Methods

Group work, plenary session, discussions, short theoretical inputs, room for thought and reflection

Location, Date and Time

Thursday, 2 June 2016, 9.00 am - 5.00 pm

Fees and Registration

This workshop is open to a limited number of participants. The registration deadline is 19 May 2016.

Please note that you should notify us before the registration deadline if you are unable to attend the workshop. Otherwise the full fee will be charged.
Please let the Personnel Development and Planning Office know if you will not be attending. There are often waiting lists for the workshops, and this will give one of your colleagues the chance to attend. In addition, if we can fill the vacancy with someone from the waiting list, no cancellation charges will apply for you.

To sign up for this workshop, please click "Register" at the bottom of this page. For any further information please contact Elke Rittersbacher (elke.rittersbacher@wu.ac.at, DW 4448).

The course fee is €20.

Dr. Martina A. Friedl   Martina A. Friedl holds a doctorate in Chemistry and has a professional background in science and at an international management consultancy She has undergone advanced training in systemic coaching, systemic organizational consulting and systemic family therapy Since 2010 she is active nationally and internationally as a freelance management consultant, trainer and career coach In her work she is constantly developing and improving methods to increase self-confidence and self-reliance while working with her coachees on their personal career strategies