Quieter critic, stronger voice
Confidence, presence and self-compassion for women leaders.
Three and a half hours on a quieter critic and a stronger voice: the science of confidence, impostor thoughts, building confidence in practice, presence in the room, self-compassion and motivation.
- Level
- Focus
- Learning time
- 3 hours 30 minutes
- Where
- Leading yourself
- Price
- £69
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Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Women leaders and aspiring leaders in housing, health, councils and the voluntary sector
Overview
Capable leaders often stay quiet because doubt sounds like fact. This Focus, taken from the Immerse Leading on your own terms, begins with the science of confidence through Bandura's four sources of self-efficacy, Moore and Healy's three forms of overconfidence and how an unsourced statistic spread. It rethinks the inner voice with Tewfik's research on impostor thoughts, Beck's thinking traps and Ellis's ABCDE model, then builds confidence through a mastery ladder, reappraising nerves as excitement and Gawande's experience of taking a coach. It turns to presence with Detert and Edmondson's implicit voice theories, Gruenfeld's playing high and low and Rudman's backlash effect, closing with Neff, Self-Determination Theory and PERMA.
Aims
It sets out to help women leaders question impostor thoughts rather than obey them, prepare well for high-stakes meetings, read and respond to backlash with judgement, and look after their motivation under pressure, so that public services do not lose their voice and judgement.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Assess your own confidence against the evidence, using Bandura's sources of self-efficacy and the three forms of overconfidence.
- Use a mastery ladder and the reappraisal of nerves as excitement to build confidence for a specific challenge you face.
- Plan your presence in a high-stakes meeting using implicit voice theories, playing high and low, and awareness of the backlash effect.
What you'll develop
Through this Focus course, you will build the ability to:
- Explain Bandura's four sources of self-efficacy and why self-efficacy differs from self-esteem.
- Describe what Tewfik's research found about impostor thoughts, and identify the thinking traps that feed them.
- Explain why acting your way into new behaviour, rather than waiting to feel ready, builds confidence, drawing on Ibarra and Bandura.
- Explain why capable people stay silent at work, using Milliken and colleagues' findings and Detert and Edmondson's implicit voice theories.
- Describe Neff's three components of self-compassion and distinguish self-compassion from self-pity, excuse making and lowered standards.
- Explain Self-Determination Theory's three basic needs and identify what it looks like when each goes unmet.
- Distinguish calibrated confidence from underconfidence and from Moore and Healy's three forms of overconfidence.
- Use Ellis's ABCDE model and Neff's three components of self-compassion to examine and reframe a harsh inner voice.
Built from 3 parts.
3 hours 30 minutes of learning.
- 01Quieting the inner criticThe science of confidence and rethinking the inner voiceBitesize · Imposter Syndrome and Confidence2 modules
- 02Confidence in the roomBuilding confidence in practice: voice, presence and visibilityBitesize · Imposter Syndrome and Confidence2 modules
- 03Kinder to yourselfSelf-compassion and motivation under pressureBitesize · Resilience, Wellbeing and Adaptability2 modules