Transcript
Why is it important to be a confident leader? To have this confidence? It’s about having an inner basis. If you are confident with yourself, it will prevent you from [the] unconscious and also conscious manipulation, for example. Manipulation may sound rude, but we all do it on a daily basis. “Oh, today I want to eat at this restaurant”, then we talk to a friend. “It’s cheaper, it’s blabla”, so we manipulate her to go there. When you are a leader and you are not confident, you may manipulate your workmates in a way that you try to keep them small. Maybe you see that potential but because you are not confident, because you are afraid, you are not trusting yourself. It’s like playing chess and doing everything that the other person cannot win. And you may do things that are not for the best for your employees because you are afraid of maybe they might be better than me. The more confident you are, you can help grow your business or help grow the people around you because you really care about them. And you know that when they are growing, it doesn’t make you smaller. It’s the other way round. When they are growing, you are growing, too. So it’s like offering stability to your business, stability to your team that you are leading. And when you are fearful as a leader, the team might notice it, your business might notice it, and when you do it for a couple of years, it will not bring you good health and good sleep. So it’s good to work on your confidence, especially as a leader.
