TLC Mastermind 35 - Defining a Leader's Confidence, 3 Steps Improved Leadership Confidence, Leadership Affirmations

The Leadership Club™ (TLC) Mastermind Coaching Call with Matthew Ferrara (December 16, 2024) - Defining a Leader's Confidence, 3 Steps to Improved Leadership Confidence, Leadership Affirmations

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Here’s this week’s recording, notes, and resources from The Leadership Club™ Monday Mastermind and Coaching Call

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This week’s Insight: Confidence of a Leader

Mindset: A Leader’s Confidence:

  • Leaders must demonstrate competence and confidence

  • Confidence is greater: knowledge and ability without achievement drive is wasted

  • What is confidence and how do we build it?

3 Steps to Improved Leadership Confidence

  1. Expand your view of leadership - To have more confidence in yourself, you must have more confidence in leadership itself.

  2. Actively dispute negative thinking - What is more valuable: more positive thinking or less negative thinking?

  3. Develop a set of Affirmations, specifically leadership affirmations

Watch the mini-clips below where Matthew explains the 3 Steps to Improved Leadership Confidence 👇👇👇


Our Mastermind Discussion centered on confidence for leaders and how to help those they lead to build confidence too.

  • Some are learning to celebrate wins although they don’t seem like BIG wins.

  • Some suggested focusing on the client or those we’re leading rather than ourselves.

  • Leaders equate mistakes with a lack of ability, but mistakes are mistakes by nature that we couldn’t see coming; it’s life.

  • Look at resistance or things going wrong as a diagnostic to change.

  • Realize that you’ve grown into the leadership role you are in now in ways you don’t recognize.

Leaders also help with Other’s Confidence

Pessimistic people have a tendency to take things personally and think they are permanent (always/never mindset) and pervasively. Our goal as a leader is to shift them away from the 3P’s:

  • Don’t take it personally if things out of your control affect your results (i.e. the market, organizational change, etc.)

  • Move toward language that encourages open-minded approaches to solving the problem and away from always/never. (i.e. It’s always going to be this way, it will never change, etc.)

  • Believe that the issue isn’t beyond your scope of change

Three quick-clips on 3 Steps to Improved Confidence 👇👇

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