Overcoming Impostor Syndrome: How Engineers Defeat Self-Doubt (Video On Demand)

In Overcoming Impostor Syndrome: How Engineers Defeat Self-Doubt, you'll learn ...

• The common but secret self-doubt that plagues a huge proportion (like, almost 100%) of professional engineers from brand new college graduates, to industry experts, and even top level executives
• How this experience is limiting your personal growth, impeding your professional advancement, and impacting your health
• Strategies to overcome the Impostor Syndrome once and for all
• What you can expect once you are released from these limiting self-doubts

Overview

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Credit: 1 PDH

Everyone believes you are smart and talented. Except you. Secretly, you feel inadequate. You think your success is accidental or undeserved, and you’re afraid of being uncovered as a fraud. You are experiencing “Impostor Syndrome,” a nagging self-doubt that keeps you constantly questioning your value while you compare yourself to other experts in your field or at your firm. It’s nerve-wracking and exhausting, let alone career-limiting. It’s especially prevalent in STEM industries.

Imagine feeling as capable and confident as everyone else thinks you are. Imagine truly enjoying the career for which you worked hard, confidently accepting any new challenge without fear of failure. You can face and embrace failure as a monumental positive pivot point in your career, changing the trajectory toward even greater opportunities. Move from self-doubt to self-assurance, being not just a High-Achiever but a High Believer.

This is not a wishy-washy rah-rah session. This science-based, research-supported approach will give you tools to change your thinking so you can stop feeling like a fraud, and start believing you’re as good as your accomplishments say you are. Align your confidence to your competence, and unleash your influence. Bust through the barriers that bind your mindset, so you can think differently and live with bold enthusiasm. With the five strategies in the “Fraud-Free Framework, you can retrain your thinking so you can stop feeling like an impostor.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify the symptoms, impacts, causes, and people commonly affected by impostor syndrome.
• Apply a three-step process to challenge your thinking, choose a different behavior, and create a better outcome.
• Explain how and why engaging with others can diminish the influence of your own impostor voice.
• Use strategies for objectively reviewing your performance to strengthen confidence and reduce fear.
• Describe the connection between knowing your "why," professional success, spiritual awareness, and overcoming impostor syndrome.

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 10 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.