Self Esteem – The Leadership Edge
Ten Truths to Help Build Your Confidence and Self-Esteem
When you were promoted from peer to supervisor, or hired in as a manager to your organization, have you ever had the feeling that not everyone on the team was equally excited about your promotion or hiring into the organization as you were? Since most managers and supervisors have not had much training or practice in people or “soft” skills, it is not uncommon to find supervisors with “people challenges.” When these people problems arise, and the problems are not easily solved, supervisors may question if they have what it takes and whether they are the best person on the team to do the job. When we begin to question our ability to be a good supervisor, our self esteem begins to fade.
Being a great supervisor starts with you. The way you feel and see yourself affects every aspect of your role as a leader. The higher your self esteem, the better your chances are of being a great supervisor and a great leader.
The following ten truths can help build your confidence and self-esteem as a leader:
- Recognize that your self esteem and self-image impact every aspect of your role as a supervisor.
- Stop valuing your self worth by comparing yourself to others. Set your own standards and then strive to achieve those standards.
- Set realistic and obtainable goals. It is the fastest way to raise your self esteem. When you set a goal and achieve it, you feel you have mastery over your environment.
- Associate with others who have high self esteem. You do have a choice as to whom you associate with.
- Laugh sooner. If you have ever experienced a crisis or a failure, you know at some point you are able to laugh about it. The goal is to laugh sooner.
- Give and accept compliments. When you give sincere compliments, people like you better. When you accept compliments, it demonstrates high self esteem.
- Ask for and accept feedback from others. When people care about you enough to offer feedback, either positive or negative, you have the opportunity to grow.
- Take full responsibility for your actions. Empowered people with high self esteem know they are responsible for their decisions and actions.
- Develop a positive vision and use positive self talk. What you think about comes about.
- Remember, successful people have experienced failure. Successful people with high self esteem view “failure” as an opportunity to learn how to do things differently.
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Filed Under: Leadership, Peter's Blog on September 25th, 2009
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