7 Most Common Workplace Insecurities & How To Overcome Them

When you observe yourself envying of other colleagues, it's time for some self-analyzation. Overcoming your jealousy and staying relevant to the environment is essential for maintaining positive. Ask yourself if self-doubt can wave off the situation, help you in any way or is it something you need to work on! 

At times such vulnerabilities might act as motivational factors but not always. Instead of advancement, it can hamper your success rate. Therefore, here are 7 common workplace insecurities and the ways you can deal with them. 

#1. Qualification Hinders Your Progress 

Feeling that you are incompetent for the position is a common perception. But don't forget, there's a spark that landed you into the job else qualifying for the same wouldn't have been possible.  

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Eliminate negative feelings, update your skill set and learn new things each day. Keep establishing your abilities through workshops, seminars or part-time courses.

#2. Income Gap

Although income might be a subject of taboo at your workplace, you still have a vague idea of what your coworkers earn. If the salary difference is causing tensions, focus your energy on better contingencies. 

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Equip yourself for a raise and navigate towards getting valued at what you think you deserve. This will help you improve the bargaining power (while at the appraisal phase) for a stable financial position.

#3. Feelings Of Advancement Inadequacy

In the world of cut-throat competition, getting caught in comparing yourself with someone who's stronger or better is sheer stupidity. One should believe in healthy competition but shouldn't make that practice. It gradually weakens you and makes you feel unequipped. 

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Therefore, do not foster jealousy and carve out your advancement prospects. Enhance your communication skills and feel responsible for maintaining targets and other opportunities.

#4. Lack Of Social Skills

For those first timers, starting out afresh in the professional world, it requires some effort on socializing. Even if you are an experienced professional, you might need to update your social skills. Getting right on your smile and helping technique is the key. 

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Not being able to connect with your coworkers needs you to get proactive and build better relationships at work. Appreciate others, offer them help, join them at lunch time and fix the social ordeal. 

#5. Invisibility At Work

The general and constant impression that your peers are smarter than you which needs to be surpassed immediately. If you feel invisible at work, produce something to let your personality stand out from the rest. You have a long way for progression. 

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Gain as much as possible. Start taking (calculated) risks, stay at work till late, finish tasks earlier or initiate fresher perspectives to bring about extraordinary changes. If you still find yourself not getting up front, This way you'll naturally appear in others eyes!

#6. Physical Insecurities 

There's a reason behind calling it a "workplace" rather than "beautiful place." When bodily hesitancy starts to follow you into the office, your performance and success rate starts to diminish. Remind yourself to give better performance each day as that's what ultimately counts! 

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You are considered for the fortune you bring about for the organization and how well you work, not the physicalities. This aspect is just a mind game that needs to stop manipulating you.

#7. Termination Of Fear

If there are multiple insecurities that you experience, the fear of termination becomes apparent. You are afraid of your deficiencies which make you focus on the trivial things. But if self-doubt is the only reason and you are a potent employee, then just push this feeling out of your mind. 

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Dismissals do not happen without any stern purposes. Therefore focus on bringing value to the company rather than eventually getting replaced due to unbalanced personality traits. 

Let us know through the comment section below how you think such workplace insecurities can be dealt with. We would love to hear from you! 

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