Ep 155 – How to Support a Team Member Who Lacks Confidence

If you’ve got a team member who lacks confidence it could be impacting their performance, their career progression and how they feel about work.  Confidence issues are widespread with 79% of women saying they lack confidence at work.  And it impacts people’s ability to perform and progress. 46% of women say managing a negative mindset stops them from making the impact they want at work whilst 37% of women identified a lack of confidence and self-belief in their own ability as an obstacle to career progression  So how do you help people in your team build their confidence and unlock their potential?  In this episode, I’m going to share 6 practical ways you can help a team member feel more confident in their role, as well as 3 traps to avoid to make sure you’re not labelling someone as unconfident when that may not be the issue.    We’ll look at…  How the type of feedback you give makes a real difference  How you might be impacting the confidence of your team  How you can use coaching questions to support their self-awareness and self-belief  Ways to make them feel valued  How modelling and encouraging a growth mindset can help    This is the Influence & Impact podcast for women leaders, helping you confidently navigate the ups and downs of leadership and feel less alone on your journey as a leader.    My name’s Carla Miller, I’ve been coaching leaders for the past 15 years and I’m your leadership coach.  I’m here to remind you of the value to bring to your organisation, to help believe in yourself and to share practical tools and insights from myself and my brilliant guests that will help you succeed in your career.    If you’ve enjoyed this episode please leave a review and make sure you’ve got the podcast set to ‘follow’ if you’re listening in Apple or Spotify so you don’t miss future episodes.  We’ve got some brilliant episodes coming up in February.    If you’d like to talk to me about 1:1 coaching, or the upcoming Be Bolder confidence course and Influence & Impact women’s leadership programme do book a call or connect on LinkedIn and send me a message there.