The Leadership Japan Series By Dale Carnegie Training Japan

Self Sourcing Confidence  Are you confident?  If the answer is “no”, then how can you become more confident?  If the answer is “yes”, does that extend to areas where you lack existing expertise and experience?  Generally speaking, we are all confident while operating within our Comfort Zone. The tried and true activities are reinforced over and over.  The only problem with this construct is we are limiting ourselves to what we already know and can do.  The growth areas are always located outside our Comfort Zone, but venturing forth is a scary prospect.  How do we either gain confidence in the first place or how do we extend the scope of our confidence? The work environment has a huge impact on how we grow our confidence.  If we work with or for people who are supportive, we can try, fail and grow.  If our boss or teammates deride us for making mistakes, we learn to avoid doing anything new.  If we offer up an idea or suggestion and are met with rebuke, derision, sarcasm or mock, we learn very quickly to neve