First Quarter 2013- Issue 11<\/p>\n
At the End of the Day- “Self Confidence & Humility”<\/p>\n
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A leader’s self-confidence is critical if leaders want to be convincing to their followers.\u00a0 Self-confidence as discussed here is “the absence of self-doubt” and having a “believe in yourself” mindset.\u00a0 Self-confidence is very important to be able to push through challenges and barriers encountered in achieving leaders’ visions and goals.\u00a0 Self-confidence is rooted in the exhibition by leaders of strengths and the utilization of assets they possess.\u00a0 It is using these strengths and assets in a prepared manner that allow leaders to move forward with their agendas.<\/p>\n
However, when leaders rely so much on their self-confidence, they can miss a more important quality that helps establish sustained leadership performance over a longer period of time.\u00a0 This quality is humility<\/em>, that of being humble towards their achievements.\u00a0 It is this quality that gives others an opportunity to express their ideas and creates a powerful motivator for them.\u00a0 When leaders have self-confidence AND humility, they avoid moving into a state of arrogance and myopia.\u00a0 They are comfortable with who they are, what they represent and are more likely to be in a state of giving than receiving and continuous learning.\u00a0 It does not mean that they are not assertive in setting forth their views and opinions.\u00a0 It simply means that they are more apt to be better listeners, better encouragers, better synthesizers and better at adding context to the text.\u00a0 Without humility, leaders who rely solely on their self-confidence risk falling into an arrogant\u00a0belief that they did it or can do it by themselves.\u00a0 The difference between being confident and arrogant is sometimes said to be knowledge.\u00a0 The self-confident leaders\u00a0are<\/em> knowledgeable and<\/em> more collaborative while the arrogant leaders think<\/em> they are knowledgeable relying primarily on their own personal myopic lens.\u00a0Sustained performance over longer periods couples self-confidence with humility.\u00a0 This combination also forms the basis for the transformational leadership style component “individualized consideration” where leaders effectively develop individuals as the leaders that will carry out the long term sustained performance into the future long after the leader is gone.<\/p>\n In the book “Good to Great”, a self-confident\u00a0and<\/em> humble leader is the highest level of leadership in the Level 5 Hierarchy.\u00a0 It is moving from the Level 4 to the Level 5 leader that leads to sustained performance over long periods of time.\u00a0 Self-confidence is perhaps the most important emotional behavioral trait in leading yourself and others.\u00a0 However, it should never be relied upon by itself.\u00a0 The combination with humility keeps leaders well-grounded and allows them to fully embrace the potential around them.<\/p>\n –Mario Flores<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mario.Flores.\u00a0 All rights reserved.\u00a0 No part of these materials may be reproduced in any form without written permission.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First Quarter 2013- Issue 11<\/p>\n At the End of the Day- “Self Confidence & Humility”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A leader’s self-confidence is critical if leaders want to be convincing to their followers.\u00a0 Self-confidence as discussed here is “the absence of self-doubt” and having a “believe in yourself” mindset.\u00a0 Self-confidence is very important to be able to push through challenges and barriers [<\/p>\n