{"id":12632,"date":"2020-03-05T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.encore-emea.com\/how-can-women-in-the-meeting-industry-find-their-confidence\/"},"modified":"2021-01-18T15:50:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T15:50:52","slug":"how-can-women-in-the-meeting-industry-find-their-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/info.encore-emea.com\/nl\/how-can-women-in-the-meeting-industry-find-their-confidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Confidence: How Women Can Find it in the Meetings Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy International Women\u2019s Day! With women making up nearly 77% of the meeting, convention, and event planning industry in the U.S.,* today is a great day for self-reflection. How did I get where I am? Where am I going? What will my future be? One of the subjects I hear the most about from women I speak about this journey we\u2019re on is confidence:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why are men so much more confident than me?<\/li>\n<li>Where do I find the courage to speak up?<\/li>\n<li>How do I get confidence in myself?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Confidence! How many of us wish we had more confidence in ourselves? The answer is that confidence is a skill like any other \u2013 you have to invest in yourself and <strong>learn<\/strong> it. And we also all need to recognize that this is something everyone has to learn, no matter your gender or your background. While it may seem that for some it comes totally naturally, the reality is that they learned it somewhere along the way and you can, too! The most important thing to grasp is that confidence breeds confidence.<\/p>\n<p>What does it take to breed the strength to gird yourself with the armor of confidence?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really just a few simple things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Be who you dream of being! <\/strong>Challenge your own assumptions of what you can do. Don\u2019t get pulled into others view of what you can do \u2013 invest in your own position and where you can go. If I\u2019d let myself be pulled into a narrow view of what women can do, I wouldn\u2019t have done the things I\u2019ve done in my life (which, along with being a business leader, includes taking care of house and home!). Whose assumptions are you carrying along with yourself?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Be yourself!<\/strong> Don\u2019t feel like you need to like sports (or ballet for that matter) if you don\u2019t. If you don\u2019t like golfing, go to the spa \u2013 you\u2019ll find that a number of men like the spa better, too! Don\u2019t feel like you need to dress a certain way to fit in \u2013 though never underestimate the value of that power outfit that feels like you take on the world!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Speak up!<\/strong> Know what you\u2019re talking about, of course, and never be afraid of letting your voice be heard. This piece is especially rampant in our industry, with women making up less than one-third of conference speakers (2018 Bizzabo Gender and Inclusion Report). You have valuable contributions to make \u2013 because only you have your world experiences \u2013 and no one else has seen the world through your eyes. Every time you speak up, you build your confidence to speak more \u2013 so start today.<\/li>\n<li><strong>You are good enough!<\/strong> Job applicants have been studied \u2013 and women follow the rule of \u201cI need to have all the skills in the job posting to apply\u201d where men are more likely to apply if they\u2019re \u201cclose enough\u201d (Harvard Business Review, Tara Mohr, August 2014). Guess what \u2013 you\u2019re close enough, too! If you don\u2019t get the job, you\u2019ve at least had the experience of speaking up for what you want to do, and honing your interview skills. Well done! More confidence for the next time!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So, there you go \u2013 four easy steps to confidence! I read one article that women who have confidence don\u2019t have doubts (\u201chah!\u201d), don\u2019t have regrets (also \u201chah!\u201d), and also never miss self-care (omigosh \u201chah!\u201d). You will likely have doubts, regrets, and not schedule that doctors\u2019 appointment for yourself. That doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t be a confident woman, whom people pay attention to when you walk in the room. You are <strong>good enough<\/strong>, you<strong> speak up<\/strong>, you are<strong> yourself<\/strong>, and you don\u2019t buy into the myth that you can\u2019t be the<strong> person you dream of being<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>Happy International Women\u2019s Day! Throw your shoulders back, hold your head up high \u2013 you are a great, confident person who will make the future so much better and brighter by being you.<\/p>\n<p><em>*According to the U.S. Department of Labor<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy International Women\u2019s Day! With women making up nearly 77% of the meeting, convention, and event planning industry in the U.S.,* today is a great day for self-reflection. How did I get where I am? Where am I going? 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