This self-confidence training gives you the keys to identify your strengths, overcome blocking thoughts and develop a confident posture in everyday professional life. Over two days, you work on the foundations of self esteem, the management of self talk and assertive expression. A determining skill for evolving with serenity in a corporate setting.
Confidence is built, day by day, with concrete tools
For collaborators wishing to upskill in soft skills in French speaking Switzerland, working on self-confidence opens new horizons: speaking up in meetings, defending an idea, dealing with feedback, taking on new responsibilities. The course relies on practical introspection exercises and personal commitment plans.
Define self-esteem
Analyze successes and failures
Develop self-esteem
Identify emotions associated with self-esteem
Dare and assert yourself
Design a personalized action plan
Self-confidence and self esteem are quiet but critical skills in professional life. They condition the ability to express oneself, take initiative, accept feedback and grow. This course offers a structured approach for those who want to lay the foundations of stable confidence, far from techniques of forced positivism.
Lack of confidence often stems from poor knowledge of one’s own resources. Through guided exercises, you map out your concrete successes, transferable skills and personal qualities. A first step that already shifts perception of self.
The voice we use to address ourselves directly conditions confidence. The course details cognitive behavioral mechanisms for spotting limiting thoughts (« I’m not capable », « they will judge me ») and reformulating them constructively. A toolkit you take with you long after the course.
Assertiveness is the art of expressing oneself respectful of self and others. Saying no, expressing a divergent view, asking for clarification, giving feedback: these everyday gestures rest on simple but trainable techniques. The course explores them in role plays.
Public speaking, disagreement with a manager, group presentation: these moments often trigger physiological reactions. The course teaches you breathing, posture and centering techniques to keep your composure when it counts.
At ITTA centers in Carouge and Le Flon, this course runs over two days in a small group with a personal development expert. The format alternates introspection, role plays and group sharing.
Any collaborator wishing to strengthen confidence in professional daily life: public speaking, salary negotiations, defending viewpoint, career projection. In Geneva and Lausanne, the course welcomes varied profiles from tertiary, international organizations, healthcare and public services. No specific prerequisite.
You identify your underused resources and qualities, recognize and reformulate limiting thoughts, adopt assertive communication in demanding situations, keep calm in pressure moments, and install a daily routine to durably anchor. You leave with a personalized three-month action plan.
A collaborator finally daring to ask for a raise after foundation work on her resources. An executive defending an unpopular position in committee through worked assertive posture. A junior speaking in strategic meeting instead of staying silent. The course works these three situations from cases brought by participants.
This training combines well with public speaking (course 14558) for oral exercises, emotional intelligence for regulation, and NLP (course 14556) for body anchoring. Many participants enroll in one of these courses.
Self confidence is now recognized as a performance and well being factor by many works in work psychology. Solid confidence translates into measured risk taking, balanced negotiations, resilience facing setbacks. This training lays the foundations of lasting work, without therapeutic drift but with rigor and benevolence, in a frame adapted to professional world.
An executive hesitating to ask for a raise. A junior staying silent in strategic meeting. An expert underestimating her own mastery. The course adapts exercises to your context with personalized trainer feedback. Lack of confidence sources are multiple and treated by differentiated techniques: the course offers a complete applicable toolbox.
Self confidence work is progressive and personal: it does not decree, it anchors through regular practice of brought techniques. The course offers a logbook and simple rituals to integrate in your daily life, with evaluation milestones at one, three and six months to follow your progression.
Is this course for shy profiles only?
No. It targets any collaborator wishing to strengthen ease, even those already comfortable. Self-confidence is built throughout the career.
Is it personal development or therapy?
It is professional development, focused on workplace situations. The course does not replace therapeutic follow up if needed.
Are confidential exchanges respected?
Yes, the rule of group confidentiality is announced and respected. Participants share only what they wish.
Are tools applicable from day one?
Yes. Each participant builds a personalized action plan with concrete commitments to test in the field, then debrief at the end of the course.
The Geneva and Lausanne professional landscape includes many international organizations and remote/hybrid setups, where self confidence is tested in specific ways: speaking in non-native language, defending position across time zones, maintaining presence on video. The course briefly addresses these specific contexts with adapted techniques to compensate for the additional cognitive and emotional load they impose, and to anchor a sustainable confidence beyond local in-person comfort zones.
Does the course address impostor syndrome?
Yes, impostor syndrome is treated specifically with cognitive and behavioral techniques. Many participants identify this pattern and find concrete tools to attenuate its impact.
How long before noticeable change?
Self confidence work is progressive: visible shifts often appear in two to four weeks, with deeper anchoring over three months of regular practice with the techniques brought.
Where do sessions take place?
ITTA has three centers in French speaking Switzerland: in Geneva (Carouge, Route des Jeunes 35), in Lausanne at the Flon (Rue des Cotes de Montbenon 16) and at Lausanne Mon-Repos (Avenue de Mon-repos 24). The training is also available in virtual classroom.
Are personal stories shared in group?
Only what each participant chooses to share. Group confidentiality is announced and held throughout the two days.
Monday to Friday
8:30 AM to 6:00 PM
Tel. 058 307 73 00
ITTA
Route des jeunes 35
1227 Carouge, Suisse
Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 06:00 pm.
