How Self-Efficacy Can Make or Break a Leader and Those Around Them

  • - Self-efficacy is the hidden force that drives our thoughts, feelings, motivations and actions.
  • - Leaders must proactively monitor and manage self-efficacy levels if they want to maximize the performance and well-being of themselves and those around them.
  • - Self-efficacy beliefs can be developed and sustained through a range of simple techniques and principles.

Session Description

The session begins with a short introduction to the self-efficacy (task-specific confidence) research base, outlining what it is and why it is important for everyone, especially leaders, to understand. It will then explore how self-efficacy beliefs develop and the dangers of confidence lulls, spirals, and hubris. Next will be an exploration of how leaders can affect the self-efficacy levels of those around them before finishing with an in-depth description of strategies and techniques that leaders can use to manage self-efficacy and get the best out of themselves and their teams.