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Vanessa Monsequeira - ?????????
VP of People at Gorilla | Building Employee Experience as a Product | In pursuit of making work suck less | Leadership & Career Coach | Corporate Hippy - views expressed here are my own
How do you know you are good enough without the external validation of others?
What can you do to affirm yourself?
These are the two questions I asked my team during our weekly meeting a couple of years ago.
I noticed that several members had a dip in confidence because they weren’t getting the usual level of feedback or praise from customers, stakeholders, or leaders.**
The response?
Read the rest in this week's edition of The Nature of Leadership + Career to find out:
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1 年I'm learning every day more and more that the only validation that we should truly seek is our own, and that's a feeling (alignment) rather than just words or a pat on the back Vanessa Monsequeira
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1 年Weekly and monthly reviews are easy to skip, but are such useful practices for seeing progress and appreciating the process ??
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1 年Uff we crave for external validation
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1 年There are some very straight truths in here, Vanessa. You really did a deep dive into this subject. I like how you didn't cross the line of arrogance to obtain self-worth, but just stuck with examining the reality of where we are.
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