Workplace Wellbeing: Is there a price to pay for being too likeable?
“This constant pressure to smile and bite their tongue, to downplay achievements and regulate how they express their confidence affects how women are seen at work and the opportunities they are given,” says executive coach Fiona Buckley.
Fiona Buckley, a 44-year-old executive coach from Dublin, wishes she hadn’t worried so much about being likeable.
“When I worked in the corporate sector, thinking about whether or not people liked me, and trying to please them so that they did, was a huge issue for me,” Buckley says.
