Grounded confidence
Confidence in practice, in the room and in your team.
Two and a half hours on confidence in practice: preparing for high-stakes moments, holding your ground in the room and lifting the people you lead.
- Level
- Focus
- Learning time
- 2 hours 30 minutes
- Where
- Imposter Syndrome and Confidence
- Price
- £69
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Read the full terms
Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Managers and senior leaders who want to speak up and back others
Overview
This Focus turns insight into action. It starts with practice: Herminia Ibarra's possible selves and authenticity paradox, an honest look at the power posing debate, Bandura's mastery experience as a mastery ladder, reappraising nerves as excitement, Oettingen's WOOP method and Atul Gawande taking a coach. It then moves into the room, examining why capable people stay silent, Detert and Edmondson's implicit voice theories, Gruenfeld's playing high and playing low and the backlash effect. The third module looks at leading others who doubt themselves, through wise feedback, psychological safety and the difference between mentoring and sponsorship. A capstone reads the stories of Michelle Obama, Tom Hanks and an illustrative Welsh head of service, ending with a 90-day plan.
Aims
This programme aims to develop leaders who build confidence through deliberate preparation and practice, speak up and stay steady under challenge, and use feedback, sponsorship and better workplace design so that the people around them are not held back by doubt.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Plan for a specific high-stakes moment using a mastery ladder and the WOOP method, building confidence through preparation rather than waiting to feel ready.
- Lead with presence in meetings and under challenge, choosing deliberately between playing high and playing low and making your work visible through evidence.
- Use wise feedback, sponsorship and changes to criteria, onboarding and meetings to reduce the conditions that keep producing doubt in your team.
What you'll develop
Through this Focus course, you will build the ability to:
- Use a mastery ladder and Oettingen's WOOP method to plan for a specific high-stakes moment.
- Choose deliberately between playing high and playing low, and make your work visible through evidence rather than self-promotion.
- Apply practical moves to speak up, hold your ground under challenge and prepare for a high-stakes meeting.
- Use wise feedback and sponsorship to turn your belief in a colleague into high standards and real opportunity.
- Plan changes to criteria, feedback, onboarding and meetings that reduce the conditions that keep producing doubt.
- Assess your own position across eight areas and set out a 90-day plan to build grounded confidence and lift others.
Built from 2 parts.
2 hours 30 minutes of learning.
- 01Confidence in the roomBuilding confidence in practice: voice, presence and visibilityBitesize2 modules
- 02Lifting othersLeading people who doubt themselves, with case studiesBitesize2 modules
Keep going.
Part of the Imposter Syndrome and Confidence topic, also sold whole as Owning your place.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereFocus, 2 hours 30 minutes, £69
- The whole topicExplore, Owning your place, 5 hours 30 minutes, £129. Already own the Focus? You pay £60.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms