How can you conquer self-doubt as a leader?

In addition, acknowledge your strengths and leverage them. Often strengths are overlooked and focus is on the "weakness." When focus is placed on the strengths and coupled with past successes, confidence will increase.

Recognizing my triggers have been very helpful in working through challenging conversations etc. I am one who, in the past, would shut down and remove myself from a conversation when a trigger was pulled. But, over the years, I have learned the importance of identifying those triggers and acknowledging the what/why, and thinking about how I overcame them in the past has helped tremendously. Finally, talking about the issues and the things we learn from them has also been an effective method that has successfully helped me conquer these types of self-doubting challenges.

Self reflection is a great tool, seeing goals achieved in writing can support your confidence as a leader. 360 feedback can also support your confidence as a leader and help you develop areas you feel you lack confidence. Lastly, if you feel insecure, power dress, never underestimate the power of wearing clothes that make you look and feel confident

This is totally, converting someone's weakness to strength. I think as a leader we need to be more focused on where we are going and the achievement ahead. Don't allow anyone to drag you back on your journey to the top. The way to the top is scary and boredom but we need to face it and it champions the stress.

One thing that my executive coach reminded me to do when finding myself diverting to a negative assumption is to ask myself questions- whoever is involved, are they aware of their actions and how it made you feel? Are they aware of whatever was said that it’s a trigger and pushes you into the shadows? And as I question my thoughts, 98% of the answer to all my questions is no.

Feedback is critical to success. It has not been an easy journey to get to where I am today in regards to asking for that not-so-positive feedback and having the courage to acknowledge my faults, but also dive deep into the why and ask for additional input on resources/tools or even some best practices others have used to help complete developmental challenges. I remind my team, mentees, etc., that it’s easy for us to take the feedback personally, but what we need to remind ourselves is that we didn’t get to where we are today on our way sailing through the wind with no clouds in the way we are who we are today from the ongoing feedback and guidance provided by others in our lives (personally & professionally).

Leadership shows up in 4 levels: Organization Process People Self Why do you think Self is the last one? As a leader is expected to rise beyond self and focus on the other three levels. If the headlight is on the other three levels he/she/they won’t have anytime to doubt or think about self. That’s the space leadership shows up