Building confidence and leadership skills at a fast rate is possible when a business incorporates a system of psychological safety, coaching, and resilience. There are several ways you can support employee confidence to get the best business outcome, and here are a few to get you started.
Use Psychological Safety as a Performance Engine
Psychological safety involves making everyone in a team feel safe speaking up, sharing ideas, and offering recommendations without the fear of ridicule or punishment. It’s a robust predictor of increased self-confidence and improvements in learning behaviors. In fact, this unique process inspires employees to contribute in any way they like, which fosters trust and boosts leadership maturity at all levels.
Psychological safety can work in any setting. For instance, if a company in the UK operates hybrid or global teams, the concept of psychological safety can still transcend easily across several time zones and cultures. It can easily be complemented by external perspectives; some leaders may engage a mindset coach in Sydney, or in any other part of the world, to diversify thinking patterns while keeping the UK-centric operating model intact.
However, you must not confuse safety with low expectations because your ultimate goal should be to achieve high standards and impeccable support. Remember, weaponized niceness that avoids tough talk will ultimately corrode confidence by leaving others in a state of uncertainty over performance gaps. At the same time, don’t disappoint people with good intentions because inconsistent values can quickly undermine the communication behaviors needed to drive capability growth.
Using Professional Coaching and Mentoring at Scale
Coaching is a training aspect that transforms insight into action with accountability, while mentoring builds contextual judgment and networks. Together, they result in improved confidence and competence. Here are some dos and don’ts to keep in mind.
- Do define success as part of business-connected KPI metrics, such as 360 scores, readiness for promotion, collaboration measures, and decision-cycle time, to keep success measures quantifiable and verifiable.
- Do use the services of an outside coach with manager reinforcement because nothing builds a new behavior like seeing it reflected in one’s own system.
- Don’t offer coaching as a form of remediation but rather as a means of accelerating strategic capabilities that appeal to your best talent and busiest leaders.
- Don’t rely only on digital learning solutions; blended models prove superior to purely e-learning when it comes to real behavioral modification.
Building Resilience and Continuous Learning HabitsResilience programs are unique and teach leaders how to control their emotions, think differently about challenges, and bounce back from setbacks. The best thing is that building resilience in the workplace is equally useful for employees, as it boosts how workers feel and handle their work. That’s especially true when it’s done in a series of sessions involving experiential learning activities where they have a chance to process everything they have learned.
To make a resilience building program effective, link it to something that truly matters, make everyone understand why their work is meaningful, create opportunities for them to practice new skills, and allow them to customize their new skills according to their own style. This will help keep people engaged and instill confidence in them.
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By combining these components, it gets easier to foster leadership based on increased confidence by practicing in an environment that makes improvement visible and inevitable.
Original Article: HRnews
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