Owning your place
Overcoming imposter syndrome and building grounded confidence.
A half day on owning your place: understanding impostor feelings, building grounded confidence in yourself and lifting colleagues who doubt themselves.
- Level
- Explore
- Learning time
- 5 hours 30 minutes
- Where
- Imposter Syndrome and Confidence
- Price
- £129
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Certificate of Completion, or Certificate of Completion and Assessment with a short assessment
Overview and Outcomes.
Who It's For
Leaders at any level who want to work with self-doubt, not against it
Overview
This half-day programme brings together all nine modules of the topic in four stages. It opens with understanding: the impostor phenomenon from Clance and Imes onwards, Valerie Young's five competence types, and the three layers, personal, transitional and structural, behind doubt. The inner work follows, with Bandura's sources of self-efficacy, Moore and Healy on overconfidence, calibrated confidence, and talking back to the inner critic with Ellis's ABCDE model and Neff's three components of self-compassion. Practice and presence come next: Ibarra's possible selves, Oettingen's WOOP method, silence at work and Gruenfeld on playing high and playing low. Finally it turns to leading others through wise feedback, sponsorship and psychological safety, with a capstone built around Michelle Obama, Tom Hanks and Rhian, an illustrative head of service in a fictional Welsh council.
Aims
The aim is to develop leaders who can work with doubt rather than be run by it, build confidence deliberately and judge it fairly in others, and change the conditions in their teams and organisations that keep capable people quiet or out of the running.
In summary, you will be able to:
- Explain where impostor feelings come from, distinguishing personal, transitional and structural causes, and judge popular confidence claims against the research evidence.
- Apply tools such as the mastery ladder, WOOP, the ABCDE model and self-compassion to build calibrated confidence for the moments that matter most.
- Lead colleagues who doubt themselves through wise feedback, sponsorship and psychological safety, and set out a 90-day plan for yourself and your team.
What you'll develop
Across this Explore, you will develop the ability to:
- Recognise the stages of Clance's impostor cycle and her six characteristics in your own work and in others.
- Apply calibration questions to separate what is yours to work on from what you should raise with your organisation.
- Use Ellis's ABCDE model and Neff's three components of self-compassion to examine and reframe a harsh inner voice.
- Use a mastery ladder and Oettingen's WOOP method to plan for a specific high-stakes moment.
- Use wise feedback and sponsorship to turn your belief in a colleague into high standards and real opportunity.
- Assess your own position across eight areas and set out a 90-day plan to build grounded confidence and lift others.
Built from 4 parts.
5 hours 30 minutes of learning.
- 01Naming the doubtWhat imposter feelings are, their five faces and their rootsBitesize3 modules
- 02Quieting the inner criticThe science of confidence and rethinking the inner voiceBitesize2 modules
- 03Confidence in the roomBuilding confidence in practice: voice, presence and visibilityBitesize2 modules
- 04Lifting othersLeading people who doubt themselves, with case studiesBitesize2 modules
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