Forget the Apologies and Learn to Lead with Confidence
Why do you need to stop apologising?
Apologies are confidence killers. So, why do women apologise all the time?
With every unnecessary apology you give, you chip away at our confidence. Professor Maja is on a mission to turn the apologetic communication styles of women into confidence building lingo.
Apologies have become a habitual way of communicating for many women and it’s intimately linked to feelings of being an imposter. Imposter syndrome ensures you never feel “good enough”, which can lead to you undervaluing yourself and feeling like you don’t belong.
Maja draws on years’ worth of data collected with thousands of women around the world to inform her research and build her concepts and strategies. This seminar will help you to forget the apologies, claim your credibility, and learn to lead with confidence.
Professor Maja
Sociologist, Author, TedX Speaker & Confidence-Builder
The world’s foremost expert and researcher on gendered confidence inhibitors
I am a sociologist, author and TEDx speaker. I’m also a confidence-builder and apology-hater. I graduated with a Ph.D. in Sociology in 2014 (focusing on the sociology of women’s health), with no clear career in mind, until I attended an academic conference that completely changed the trajectory of my research, my career and my life. At that conference, I witnessed women at the pinnacle of their career deflecting praise (we call that feminine modesty) and over-apologising for mundane issues. I immediately became obsessed with apologies.
Forget the Apologies and Learn to Lead with Confidence
Key learning outcomes:
- Why apologies hurt your confidence and how to stop needlessly apologising
- Avoiding minimising and disqualifying lingo
- How to switch out common communication pitfalls for more confident lingo
- What imposter syndrome is and how to identify
- How to contextualise imposter syndrome feelings, instead of personalising them
- The poor coping strategies most people employ that lead us to play it safe
- How to deal with failures so you don’t internalise them
This seminar is ideal for:
Aspiring, emerging and existing female leaders from all sectors. Anyone who could do with a confidence boost or build their communication skills needs to attend this seminar.
- Manager through to senior leadership
- Early career and emerging female leaders
- Learning and development practitioners
- Consultants and leadership coaches
- Women returning to work from leave
Agenda
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Welcome remarks & virtual learning tips
Gender Differences in Apologies
- How my obsession with apologies began
- Why women apologise more than men
- Root causes of apologies (latest data from my study)
- Examples of the most common apologies
What to say instead of “sorry” – examples for in-person, text & email
Learning to take a compliment (personal & professional)
- How deflection of praise is linked to feminine modesty & humbleness
- How gender & racial bias influences our confidence & communication styles
Final tips on getting off the apology train
Introduction to the Imposter Syndrome
- What is the imposter syndrome?
- How does it show up in our lives?
- Imposter Syndrome TEST
- Core characteristics of feeling like an imposter
- Root causes of why we feel like imposters
- 5 Core competencies (how we define competence differently)
15 Minute Break
Common Coping Strategies
- What unhealthy coping strategies are holding you back?
Gender differences in how we internalise or externalise our successes & failures
- Male over-confidence
- The Shitty Committee
- Perfectionism vs Optimalism
- Dropping the Ball (in a good way)
- Gender differences in subjects and sources in media
De-stigmatising our relationship with failure & pivoting to a more optimalist MINDSET
- Failure is information
- The differences between learning versus ruminating over our failures
- Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs)
- Contextualising our imposter feelings (learning your triggers & your bill of rights)
Interactive Q&A
Closing remarks, housekeeping and end of Seminar
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