Building confidence at work

[Calmnesspersonified]

I'm finding myself more and more stressed at work. I don't really want to say what job I do but it involves a lot of fighting fires and solving problems and I'm finding this is getting pretty stressful. The amount of presenting I'm being expected to do has increased too and I feel sick every time I have to do a presentation. I'm good at my job and I'm good at presenting but although I show confidence externally, internally I don't. I dread it.

How can I build my confidence at work? I've recently got a mentor and will chat it through with them. I don't want to involve my boss for lots of reasons. Are there public speaking courses I could go on? Natural remedies?

Anyone?

It sounds a bit woo but positive affirmations everyday can really help.

There are beta blockers you could try for presentation anxiety.

It could be just high workload stress. Can you delegate anything to someone else if your workload is increasing?

It's not so much the workload that's causing stress. It's the firefighting.

Get @Calmnesspersonified I'm a career coach and help women with things like this. Before you go on courses etc is this actually a job you want to be doing? Does the money/other perks make up for the stress? If yes, I'd do some research into courses locally and pitch your company to see if they'll pay for them. If not, it might be time to move.

No it's probably not the life dream of a job but a lot of jobs that I'd love need confidence and presentation skills.