Confidence Building (1 day)

Lack of confidence can inhibit people’s potential. This course, taking workshop form, explores the underpinning sources of lack of confidence. It aims to help participants examine the life experiences that possibly led to this lack of confidence. The course also aims to facilitate participants examining a range of strategies that might improve self esteem and confidence at work; their own and that of service users.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this course learners should have understood:

• What it means to be Assertive
• The need for staff to be Assertive in the workplace as a way of role modelling
• How confidence and positive self esteem help service users to develop skills and life potential
• The potential consequences of lack of confidence including the impact of non Assertive behaviour on performance
• What leads to some of us being under-confident. What were the influences?
• How negative experiences such as failure knock one’s confidence
• Options for healing; what can be done to draw a line underneath the past and start anew
• How the environment can promote positive self esteem
• What can be done to develop confidence: e.g.
        -a valid role in society
        -being valued
        -having a sense of potency
        -having responsibilities
        -a sense of independence
        etc.
• How services and work experience can promote growth

Training methods:

Tutor presentations

OHP/PowerPoint
Group Work
Word shower method
Exercises
Handouts

CP104/5.9