How Do I Get My Confidence Back?
Coaching Real Leaders
Harvard Business Review / Muriel Wilkins
4.8 • 759 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
He’s been at his company for many years and has worked his way up from an entry-level position to a director role. Now, he wants to get to the next level in his career, but he feels stuck and unsure of himself.
Host Muriel Wilkins coaches this leader on how to regain his confidence so that he can move forward.
Further reading:
- To Strengthen Your Confidence, Look to Your Past
- Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It
- Don’t Let Self-Doubt Hold You Back
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| 0:00.0 | HBR Presents |
| 0:02.0 | I'm Yario Wilkins and this is Coaching Real Leaders, part of the HBR Presents Network. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm a longtime executive coach who works with highly successful |
| 0:22.2 | leaders who've hit a bump in the road. My job is to help them get over that bump by clarifying |
| 0:27.5 | their goals and figuring out a way to reach them so that hopefully they can lead with a little |
| 0:32.5 | more ease. I typically work with clients over the course of several months, but on this show, we have a one-time coaching meeting focusing on a specific leadership challenge they're facing. |
| 0:48.6 | Today's guest is someone will call Jay to protect his confidentiality. |
| 0:53.0 | He's been at the same large company for over two decades, |
| 0:56.1 | working his way up from a temporary position to a technical role to a leadership position. |
| 1:01.1 | He eventually got an MBA and he's been looking to expand, to not feel so stuck pigeonholed |
| 1:06.6 | into this one job at this one company. Around about five years ago, I realized after going for an interview with another company, |
| 1:16.4 | I got to the very, very last stage of the position. |
| 1:21.2 | And I was told at the end that because I was very specific in my learnings, that I had not experienced enough in the world. |
| 1:30.3 | Jay is feeling a bit of crisis of confidence |
| 1:33.3 | as he thinks about the next phase of his career, |
| 1:36.3 | which for him is the goal to become a CIO. |
| 1:39.3 | Am I good enough? |
| 1:41.3 | That's, I think, the big thing, because when I first started off in this particular company, |
| 1:48.0 | it was actually out of necessity to support my family. |
| 1:52.0 | So I really worked hard to actually be able to do my job well. |
| 1:56.0 | And that just allowed me to go keep on moving forward. |
| 2:00.0 | Now that I'm in a situation that it's not a necessity |
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