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November News

This month's topic is Confidence. I'm confident that you will enjoy exploring the questions below and do let me know which question makes the biggest difference to the way you think about your confidence levels.

I'd love to hear about your metaphors for confidence, if you are confident enough to share them :)

Featured Topic: Confidence

Confidence

Take a few moments somewhere quiet to think and reflect on the following questions.

What does confidence mean for you? -what words, actions or feelings would you use to describe confidence?
What is your confidence level at the moment? (on a scale of 1 to 10)
Where and when are you at your most confident?
Can you think of a specific instance when you felt really good and trusted in your own ability? - what was your confidence level at this time? (on a scale of 1 to 10)
Can you describe what this was like for you? - what did you look like? what were you doing? what were you saying? what were you feeling?
If you used a metaphor to describe the confident you - what would it be?
How can you remind yourself of this feeling in times when you are feeling less confident? (it maybe a word, a picture, a feeling or something else)
Who do you know that is confident?
How do you know they have confidence?
What makes you think you are not as confident as them?
What are the advantages for you of being more confident?
What are the advantages of not be more confident?
How do you feel about making a mistake? - does your fear of failure limit your confidence?
Can you think of a situation in the future when it will be helpful to you to have more confidence?- how can you approach this situation differently as a confident person?
How will you sit or stand when you are confident?
How will you speak and sound?
What will you say to yourself when you are confident?
If you had a magic wand what superpower would you give yourself?
How would this superpower help your confidence?
Are you prepared to experiment a little and notice how your confidence increases?

We do a lot of coaching with senior leaders in the area of confidence and gravitas, if you would like to explore this topic further please contact us.

Activities last month

'Being Effective' book

The most exciting activity this month (from my perspective!) was receiving my latest book from the printers.

'Being Effective' ISBN 978-0-09563907-1-4
is in a similar style to my previous book 'Being Resilient' with more wonderful paintings from Ian White and simple (but hopefully powerful) things for you to try to get your ideas and action

s to flow.

The image above (I can do anything) is taken from this book. Please click here if you'd like to know more.

Effectiveness workshops

We've been running lunchtime 'Effectiveness' workshops looking at ways that you can perform at your best, more of the time and exploring the impacts of stress on your performance. If you would like to know more please contact us.

Resilience book

As I mentioned last month, Clare Gallagher and I are co-authoring a book on Resilience which will capture all our current ideas and themes from our Resilience workshops and from our coaching experience. We have now sketched out the flow of the book and all the chapter contents so 'all' we need to do now is to start some serious writing. More on this as we progress.

What is coming next month?

Next month will be a month for reflection, as things slow down a little as the Christmas holidays approach and we gear up for a another new year.

The Featured Topic next month will be reflections and wishes which will hopefully give you an opportunity to learn from your successes and challenges this year and plan for a confident new year.

Warm wishes

Helen