This course is for anyone at work facing a moment that asks them to back themselves: a first big presentation, a new role, feedback that stings, or the quiet doubt that keeps you waiting to feel ready. It also serves those who lead, teach or coach others.
Back Yourself treats confidence as something you practise rather than something some people simply have. It looks at confidence as a feeling, a decision, a skill and a belief, and starts from the idea that the feeling usually follows the action. You practise talking to yourself like someone you believe in, resetting quickly after a mistake, reading your nerves as energy and readiness, and choosing who backs you.
You start by taking stock with My Confidence Baseline and The Five Traps Profile, which shows whether fear, limiting beliefs, judgment, comparison or perfectionism trips you most. Then come practices such as The Four Faces of Confidence, The Mistake Reset, My Evidence Bank, and My Backing Team. The core closes with My Back Yourself Playbook: if-then plans for the moments that test you. The Work and Career pack takes it into meetings, presentations and career moves, and the Back Your People add-on helps managers build the confidence of the people they lead.
On WorkSmart4Life this course sits under Sharpen, the move about attention and focus. Two of its tools, the PsyCap Check-In and Efficacy Builder for My Team, also appear in Work Well Together, so it deepens the Mindset and Achievement blocks for a leader and team. Begin with the first module, Where Do I Stand?; a free 24-hour trial of the whole course lets you look around first.
Dr Alten du PlessisFounder, WorkSmart4Life