Issue 7 | July 30, 2024
IN THIS ISSUE
FEATURED ARTICLE
What Impostor Syndrome is – and Is NOT
THIS WEEK’S REFRAME
WHAT’S NEW AT IMPOSTOR SYNDROME INSTITUTE
Save $500 on Early Enrollment
FEATURED RESOURCE
We are what we repeatedly do.
—Aristotle
What Impostor Syndrome Is — and Is NOT
Have you ever been unsure whether what’s holding you — or others — back is impostor syndrome, low self-esteem, lack of confidence, or something else entirely?
Since there is so much confusion about impostor syndrome, let’s clarify what it is and isn’t. For starters…
Impostor syndrome isn’t a “fancy term” for low self-esteem
Think of self-esteem as the global sense we have about ourselves.
But impostor syndrome is specific to achievement arenas: work, school, business, or career.
For example, you don’t feel like an impostor when you’re buying groceries or walking the dog.
But you might feel like an impostor when you start a new job, land your first speaking gig, or sign your first few clients.
You might feel like an impostor when you need to present your research or project results to the “higher-ups” or your work is otherwise being critiqued.
You might feel like an impostor if you’re the only woman in your department or the first-sight-impaired person to make VP.
To be clear, researchers have found people with the impostor phenomenon experience lower levels of self-esteem.
But that doesn’t mean self-esteem is an issue for everyone with impostor syndrome.
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Recognizing the difference between impostor syndrome, low self-esteem, and other factors that hold people back is just one way coaches and coach-minded leaders can make a difference in the lives and careers of others.
You can become impostor syndrome-informed through our blend of evidence-based research, coaching framework, and a diverse toolkit of practical, immediately actionable tools that help your clients/employees/students (and you!) avoid the “misdiagnosis impulse” and close the confidence gap.
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Led by Dr. Young and Denise McClennen, this training provides an in-depth understanding of impostor syndrome as well as relevant, actionable tools that have been used with a broad cross-section of people working in a wide range of occupations and levels.
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Get Clients Now™: A 28-Day Marketing Program for Professionals, Consultants, and Coaches Paperback
In our combined 60+ years working with either aspiring or current self-bossers, we’ve found the two biggest roadblocks to success are a lack of 1) confidence and 2) a lack of information about how to either start or grow their business.
Master Certified Coach C.J. Hayden’s classic book addresses both problems by offering a road map for professionals, consultants, and coaches seeking to start or grow their practice.
According to the description:
Using a simple cookbook model, the book helps you identify the ingredients missing from their current marketing activities, select the right strategies and tools from a menu of options, and create a completely customized action plan that can be fully implemented in only 28 days!
In Get Clients Now!, you will learn:
- How to choose the best marketing tactics for their situation and personality
- Hands-on approaches for replacing unproductive cold-calling with the power of relationship marketing
- Proven and effective online networking and prospecting, social media, and internet marketing strategies
- Advice on integrating online and offline tactics
- Tips for dealing with fear, resistance, and procrastination
Now in its third edition, Get Clients Now! has been updated with worksheets, exercises, all-new examples, and tried-and-true marketing practices for reaching new clients.
The groundbreaking classic explores how women can and should negotiate for parity in their workplaces, homes, and beyond.
When Linda Babcock wanted to know why male graduate students were teaching their own courses while female students were always assigned as assistants, her dean said: “More men ask. The women just don’t ask.”
Drawing on psychology, sociology, economics, and organizational behavior as well as dozens of interviews with men and women in different fields and at all stages in their careers, Women Don’t Ask explores how our institutions, child-rearing practices, and implicit assumptions discourage women from asking for the opportunities and resources that they have earned and deserve―perpetuating inequalities that are fundamentally unfair and economically unsound. Women Don’t Ask tells women how to ask, and why they should.
Although not in the book description, this book can prove useful for consultants, coaches, or other self-bossers who are hesitant to charge what they are worth.
Do these insights resonate with you? What else should we be writing about now? Tell us by emailing info@impostorsyndrome.com.
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