3 Tips To Boost Your Belief As A Leader

Are you a Corporate Female struggling with belief in your abilities? You know you have the experience, knowledge, and passion to excel in your role, and yet you're feeling like an imposter waiting fearfully to be found out as a fraud?

Perhaps you don't speak up at work and say what you think (even though you have factual valid points to make) then kick yourself afterward? Avoiding potential confrontation or awkward conversations?

Well, that's what I'm here to help you with...

Hi there, I'm Karen Evans! Confidence Coach to Corporate Females, NLP Practitioner + founder of The Self-Belief Blueprint. With 2 decades of experience successfully ‘climbing the corporate ladder’ I now help other Corporate Females to stop feeling like an imposter, start believing in themselves and confidently take action!

This article has been written specifically for you to boost your belief in yourself and change the way you are thinking/feeling. Instead, you can reconnect with the outstanding Corporate Female you (already) are so that you can show up, manage, and lead with confidence.

"The good news is that Confidence is a skill you can learn"

Here are 3 Tips For You To Believe In Yourself More As A Leader

These tips will remind you what great leadership looks and feels like to you personally. An opportunity to reflect on how you want (and will) lead with confidence going forwards...

1) Model Those You Respect As Leaders

We all have that certain someone who we respect as a Leader. Who is that person to you? Now you have that person in mind, write down your answers to these questions:

1. What is it about them as a Leader that you respect?
2. Why do you respect that about them as a Leader?
3. What is their style of Leadership?
4. How do they deliver and communicate information?
5. How do they make you feel?
6. In what ways do you already Lead in similar ways to this person?
7. In what ways would you like to Lead like this person going forwards?

Interesting exercise, right? So now you've reflected on this, what next? IT'S TIME TO TAKE ACTION...

Pick the most impactful change you can implement into your Leadership style from today and implement it! Then come back to this exercise to rinse and repeat the process.

2) Visualise Yourself As The Leader You Want To Be

You are going to use your imagination for this tip and in your mind's eye, picture yourself as the Leader you want to be.

Create a scenario in your mind where you are in full Leadership mode and excelling! Really go into the detail of that scenario...see what you see, hear what you hear, and feel what you feel.

Now you have that vision and are connected with it, write down your answers to these questions:

1. With you as the Leader you want to be - what did you see? What did you look like? What were you wearing? How did you carry yourself? What was your posture like? How did you stand/sit? What were your facial expressions?
2. With you as the Leader you want to be - what did you hear? What was your tone of voice like, how did it sound? What was your communication like when speaking to others? How did you sound when you spoke in a crowd of people/meeting?
3. With you as the Leader you want to be - what did you feel? How did you feel on the inside - confident or doubting yourself? How did you feel about delivering information to the team? How did you feeling about handling a difficult conversation?

Here's the trick with this tip, what you've actually just done is show yourself THE LEADER YOU ALREADY ARE! If you can imagine it, you can be it. Look at some of the ways where you can implement what you saw, heard, and felt into your day to day work life going forwards - and notice the difference!

3) Decide How You Want to Behave As A Leader

Having gone through tips 1) and 2) it's now time to do some reflection. But just before we get into that, give the Leader you want to be, the Leader you've been visualising a name! This will help you connect back to it going forwards - stay with me on this...

I'll share first, my name as the Leader I want to be is "Kick Arse Karen" and it was actually my NLP teacher who thought of it some years ago now - but it's stuck and it works, trust me!

Now you have your name for this version of you as the Leader you want to be, write down how she handles the following situations:

• What does she think about herself? What is her self-talk like?
• How does she handle conflict &/or confrontation?
• What boundaries does she set for herself, her team, and with business in general?
• What does she do if self-doubt creeps in? What action does she take?

You (once again) have a breakdown of THE LEADER YOU ALREADY ARE and it's now a case of you taking different actions where necessary to be this Leader.

"A person who is quietly Confident makes a great leader"

By working through these tips, being honest with yourself about where you're at now, and where you'd like to be - this gives you insight for what changes YOU CAN make so that you can believe in yourself more as THE LEADER YOU ALREADY ARE!

Let me know in the comments how you get on in taking the action from these tips and what results you get so that I can celebrate each of your wins with you!

Warmest, Karen

P.S. To learn more tools and techniques for boosting your confidence and self-belief, come and join my Free LI Group

And in the meantime, if you...

• Have had enough of holding yourself back and not knowing how to get out of your own way
• Want to have your confidence on the inside match the confidence you portray on the outside but all you've tried so far hasn't worked
• Are ready to take yourself to stop feeling like an imposter and start believing in yourself but don't know where an earth to start

Send me a DM to explore us working together and making this happen for you! There are 3 ways you can work with me:

• 90 Minute Breakthrough Session (￡299)
• Self-Study Online Course - Learn what I teach my 1:1 Clients (￡499)
• 12 Week Coaching Transformation - Life changing! (￡1,999)

Excited to connect with you soon and begin your own transformation!