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12. SELF-CONFIDENCE BUILDING AND TOLERANCE

How does it differ between the digital learning
and workplace context?

While both, digital learning and the working environment offer ways to
seek assistance and support, the methods and availability of help

usually differ:

Digital learning provides the flexibility to do your task anytime
you want, but this could end up in postponing the hard ones

and focusing only on the easy ones or other much nicer
activities. At work, postponing tasks will be much faster

detected, if not possible, and you will lose the confidence of
your colleagues and superiors and, in the end, the confidence in
your own abilities to be an efficient employee.

Digital learning offers you courses and learning methods

tailored according to your needs, while at work, you will have to
take what the company generally offers to its employees –

training courses, standard induction programmes – and adapt it
yourself to your needs so that you find purpose and motivation

in your job.

Digital learning allows people with lower self-confidence to
increase this ability by the way the classes are structured,

feedback given, and projects evaluated. Depending on the
company you are working for, your self-confidence
improvement will not be your colleagues and superiors’ most

important goal. You will have to work more with yourself, build
strong competences, achieve good results that will help you

strengthen your self-confidence.
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