Your senior executive is facing self-doubt. How can you help them shine in their unique strengths at work?
When your senior executive is facing self-doubt, it's crucial to help them focus on their unique strengths and capabilities. Here's how you can support them:
What strategies have you found effective in boosting executive confidence?
Your senior executive is facing self-doubt. How can you help them shine in their unique strengths at work?
When your senior executive is facing self-doubt, it's crucial to help them focus on their unique strengths and capabilities. Here's how you can support them:
What strategies have you found effective in boosting executive confidence?
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Encourage your senior executive to reflect on past achievements and specific challenges they’ve overcome—moments that highlight their expertise and resilience. Reinforce the impact they've had on the team and organization, focusing on concrete examples where their skills and leadership have driven results. Guide them in setting small, confidence-building goals that leverage their strengths, fostering a renewed sense of purpose. Additionally, prompt them to seek feedback from trusted peers to gain perspective, and remind them that their role and expertise are valued. This steady reinforcement can help them regain their footing and embrace their strengths with confidence.
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Self-doubt is that pesky inner voice that focuses on every setback, magnifying short-term blips over big wins, and measuring worth by others' success. A coach helps flip this script. Leaders often limit their potential by holding onto beliefs about their shortcomings, forgetting their power lies in both their own strengths and the talents around them. A coach helps them step back, see their journey as a whole, and recognize how their unique talents have added value. By celebrating their strengths and appreciating their story, leaders build lasting confidence. As Brené Brown says, "Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we will ever do."
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We all go through self-doubt phases, shorter or longer ones and it is usually about clarity on our identity and beliefs. If there are any limiting beliefs, we would need to identify and challenge them helping the executive to reframe their negative thoughts into empowering beliefs. Adopting a Holistic apporach and working with the executive on their physical, mental and emotional state, could help manage emotions and boost their self-confidence, focusing on actions and solutions instead of excuses and problems. If we manage to redirect their focus on a greater cause and contribution and its impact, this could prove a valuable key to overcoming self-doubt, since the executive can find renewed motivation and purpose through this process!
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this to me is gold! Senior folks most often than not do not like showing vulnerability. for them being a leader means being in control. So, if i am seeing self-doubt i am seeing self-awareness. then the path is easy, you can talk about their past successes, how did they manage those, you can talk about their own brand value, or you could just talk about their journey. The goal isn't to eliminate self-doubt - it's to help them lead with confidence in their own style. Sometimes the quirkiest thing about your leadership approach is actually your biggest strength - you just need someone to help you see it
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These two methods can help leaders regain their confidence. Coaching for ‘self-belief’ is important: 1) Recap their success projects and reminisce the celebration. 2) Identify and appreciate their unique traits and skills. 3) Recall successful events where their unique qualities helped them. Then move into helping them with their ‘self-awareness’. 1) Ask them to reflect on their style of leadership during their past successes 2) Help them identify those past situations which they may have felt was going to be a failure and how they succeeded from such situations to win. Helping leaders to identify their true potential and supporting them to use their unique styles to help them succeed.