The end of one year and the beginning of a new one is the best time to undertake a self assessment. You should take the time to measure the successes you’ve achieved and make note of those goals that went unmet. As part of this you will want to look at the ways in which you either built your self confidence or showed your self assurance to your staff and to those business colleagues with whom you network.
Here are some ways to show your confidence and self assurance. Add these to your checklist for your 2016 business and personal goal planning: 
- Make note of and redefine your goals and visions. Take what you did last year and either expand up on it or set new goals and visions in your personal and your business life. Give yourself a “motto” for the year or choose a couple of words that will describe how you want the year to proceed. For example some of my coaching clients choose words like: Drive or focus or gratitude or growth. Choose words that speak to you.
- Understand your strengths and your weaknesses. If you identify those areas in which you need assistance you can look to outsourcing or to learning that particular skill.
- Polish up your communication skills. Whether verbal or written, we are a world in which our words carry weight and because of that you need to not only choose your words wisely, but you need to put them forth in their best possible light in all written and verbal communications.
Take risks in both your personal and your business endeavors. Make a deal with yourself that 2016 will be the year you embrace change and take on that risky proposition you’d been putting off.