Have Confidence to Have Confidence
Posted from Springfield, Missouri-
I'm flying home from a speaking engagement in Branson, Missouri. Branson, which is huge on entertainment, is known as a satellite location for Las Vegas. This small town has over 55,000 theatre seats. That's more than Broadway.
But even here, news of the country's ailing economy is omnipresent. The bad news is on televisions, on the front page newspapers and even in the small talk at our group meals.
The President and economic experts have tried to explain to the American public that it's important to have confidence in our financial system, even as we diagnose problems and fix them. Confidence makes it easier to solve problems.
It's just as important for managers to have confidence. Subordinates and upper management judge managers by how they approach problems.
There are at least two aspects to confidence. First, there is a perceptual component. Your team must perceive you to be confident in order to feel good about projects, initiatives and strategic plans.
The second key aspect of confidence is the internal head game. You must convince yourself that you are confident, even when you are not. In other words, if you think you are confident, you are. This isn't as weird as you might think.
All positive emotions occur in the absence of their negative counterparts. If you are happy, it's because you consciously or unconsciously avoided the doldrums.
So, here's to your confidence as a manager and the country's confidence in the economy. More leadership info at www.EdisonHouse.com.


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