Strategies to Build Self Confidence - A Workforce50.com Expert Column by Kathleen Schulweis

Strategies to Build Self Confidence

Do you ever ask yourself these types of questions? Something has happened to me; where did my confidence go? When again will I feel that old spark of power and confidence? Maybe I never really had confidence; but how can I get some now?

If these fears and feelings match your middle of the night, and perhaps middle of the day dreads, then I know you'll find these articles on confidence building helpful to you. We'll be looking at the myriad ways you can uncover your confidence-step by step, one day at a time, or in giant leaps of faith. So, come along for the ride and pick tools and strategies for being your best self. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Change Your Perspective: Building Self-Confidence Every Day
We have over 70,000 thoughts a day. If we don't manage them, they will run wild. In addition, research has shown that we focus on what we look for so it is important for our self-confidence to focus on positive images.

Rethinking Resolutions: Welcome New Year
Every New Year's Eve I take my favorite pen and some delicious thick writing paper, settle down in my quiet office and think about the past year and then set my compass for the future. Use a structured approach to your values to refocus your energies.

Do you have the Confidence and Knowledge to use Networking to Help you?
Effective networking is essential to achieving career goals these days. There are behaviors relating to networking that can either hinder your success or further your ability to win in work and business. Do you recognize any in yourself?

Building Your Confidence with Networking
Confidence building is as much about action as it is about keeping yourself calm and reassured. This article offers tips that will put you into action and thus keep you calm and reassured.

Feeling Stuck, Afraid, Confused? Try this Six-Step Path to Build Your Confidence
Has something happened in your life to shake your confidence? Has something been said to allow doubt into your life? Learn about restoring confidence with this six-step path.

When You're Doing Too Much! 9 Steps for Taking Control
Are you exhausted with too much going on in your life? Are you feeling disconnected from your self confidence? Then get back to basics with these 9 steps for taking control.

Kathleen Schulweis

Kathleen B. Schulweis is a Professional Certified Coach, trained in Co-Active Coaching as well as a professional Sociologist with a focus on professional growth and development for women and men. Kathleen's private coaching practice consists of the Chiefs of major non-profits and for-profit companies as well as individual professionals and solo-preneurs. Her clients hail from around the globe and focus on business development, communication and team-building strategies, and change management. The common thread among clients is a desire to manage change and combine professional success with personal fulfillment. You will see her company, Confidence Connections, is founded on her vast experience empowering individuals to unparalleled successes.

She is the founding President of the Southern California Chapter of the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (1999 - 2001) - the leading organization for female entrepreneurs in high growth technology and life science companies. During her term as President, FWE established a stronghold in Southern California and formed three separate organizations - Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego County. Its members raised over $600,000,000 (yes, 600 million dollars) during that time.

Kathleen Schulweis is the founding Director of the California Institute of Technology, Caltech Women's Center, where she worked for seven years to protect and advance the rights of female scientists. While at Caltech she formed the Program for Women Entrepreneurs, a project designed to help facilitate technology transfer for women scientists and to empower them to choose entrepreneurship as a career. In the mid-1990's Schulweis was a co-investigator on a National Science Foundation grant to develop a set of studying images of female scientists at work and in life.

Prior to her stint at Caltech she empowered women with special programs, services, and policy development at the University of Southern California and at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Kathleen Schulweis earned her coaching certifications at the Coaches Training Institute, considered to be the Harvard of coaching schools, her Professional Certified Coaching Certification through the International Coaching Federation-the leading certifying organization in the world, her graduate degrees in sociology at the venerable UCLA and her Certificate in Business Management Effectiveness at the University of Southern California (go Trojans), all while happily married to her life partner Dr. Seth Schulweis and mothering her three children and various pets. Kathleen is the author of "The Art and Science of Confidence Selling", "The Art and Science of Presentations™", and "The Confidence Connections™ Confidence-Building Program".

Clients include professionals, business consultants and coaches, non-profit founders, and scientists and researchers who are either launching or growing their businesses. Clients typically double their income and personal satisfaction once they work with her.

Contact Kathleen via email: kschulweis@gmail.com.