Andree Funnell: How to be authentic at work

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Author, consultant and workplace wellbeing expert Andree Funnell explores imposter syndrome

Have you ever felt that there's a part of your personality that you keep to yourself? That, for one reason or another, you don't reveal to other people, as much as sometimes you'd love to let it loose? Perhaps it's out of fear of judgement. Or it could even be down to the ideals that society has projected onto you about how you should or should not behave. This part of your personality that's hiding within, waiting to be set free is your ‘authentic self'. Like many people I have spent a large period of my life trying to be someone I am not, for all sorts of reasons. The main reason is...

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