04/16/2024

Five Ways to Boost Your Leadership Confidence

Apply these tips to improve 'your game'

Enduring and meaningful leadership is about so much more than having the authority to give orders and set direction — in fact, many of the best leaders exemplify humility, respect and honest self-evaluation.

Yet, they still believe in themselves and the decisions they make. Many of my clients are stumped on how to build confidence without trying to “throw their weight around,” as many leaders try to do. If you’re looking to boost your leadership confidence, read below for some of the tips I share when I’m coaching.

1. Practice self-examination

When you’re confident and comfortable with yourself, failure and limitations will seem less intimidating. It might seem counter-intuitive that examining one’s mistakes can increase confidence. Still, the act of objectively looking at failures can be pretty liberating and uplifting by banishing the uncomfortable and the unknown with objective reflection. When you see failure as a way to learn, grow and change, you can banish the worry and unease that it might re-occur. 

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