4 Ways to Boost Your People’s Confidence
As a leader, you want a confident team. You want your people to believe in their abilities, their purpose, and in one another. Without confidence, your people will likely doubt their abilities, hesitate when action needs to be taken or shy away from making decisions, all of which can cause their performance to suffer.
In this video, we’ll explore four things you can do to build confidence in your team members so that they can reach their full potential.
One of the best ways to build confidence is to improve and develop people’s knowledge and skills. With ability comes confidence, so promote a learning culture within your team and offer opportunities for additional training.
The more knowledge and skills that people have to do their jobs, the more confident they’re going to feel in their abilities and the better they’ll perform, too.
Empowerment is key to confidence. If you trust your people and show them that you believe in their abilities, they’ll start to believe in themselves, too. Delegate tasks and give your team members the power to make their own decisions where appropriate. This will help them to take ownership of their work. And, when they succeed, their confidence will soar.
But set them up for success. Make sure they’ve got all the support and materials they need. Be that your time and advice, or access to crucial information.
Everybody likes to win. Goals provide clarity, direction, and purpose. And by setting clear goals and objectives for your team members, they’ll be better able to see their progress and measure their success. There are several goal-setting methods you can use to do this, but you should always try to tie goals to your organization’s mission and values and give feedback regularly, so that people know how they’re doing and are staying on track.
When they do achieve their goals, celebrate that success. You don’t have to take the whole team out to dinner. Sometimes a simple “thanks” on the team group chat is all it takes. Make sure you tailor the celebration to the specific person, too. For example, a shy, introverted team member probably won’t enjoy being the center of attention while you make a speech about them.
If you lead a team, don’t allow low self-confidence to hold people back. Encourage and empower them, set them clear achievable goals, and celebrate their successes.
