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Speaker 1: This is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host
Speaker 1: Paul Fellavaledo. Hello everyone, and welcome to this seven minute
Speaker 1: leadership podcast. It's episode six point fifty five. Today we're
Speaker 1: talking about something every leader wants more of confidence. People
Speaker 1: chase it, people talk about it, people attend seminars hoping
Speaker 1: someone will hand it to them like a certificate. But
Speaker 1: confidence does not come from motivational quotes or standing in
Speaker 1: front of a mirror repeating affirmations. Confidence comes from confidence.
Speaker 1: Real leaders understand this. The most confident leaders you've ever
Speaker 1: met did not wake up one morning magically confident. They
Speaker 1: built that confidence through preparation, repetition, mistakes, and hard lessons.
Speaker 1: Confidence is earned in the moment you understand that your
Speaker 1: leadership begins to change. Let me explain something that many
Speaker 1: people misunderstand. Confidence is not loud. Confidence is not arrogance.
Speaker 1: Confidence is not the person in the room trying to
Speaker 1: dominate every conversation. Confidence is quiet certainty. It is the
Speaker 1: calm leader who walks into a chaotic situation and says
Speaker 1: we're going to handle this and the team believes them.
Speaker 1: Why because that leader has demonstrated confidence before. Think about
Speaker 1: the last time you trusted someone completely at work. Maybe
Speaker 1: it was a manager, maybe it was a colleague, maybe
Speaker 1: it was a technician who always seemed to know exactly
Speaker 1: what to do. You trusted them because they knew their job.
Speaker 1: They had put in the hours, they had done the homework,
Speaker 1: they had learned from mistakes. They had built competence, and
Speaker 1: competence builds credibility. Credibility builds trust, Trust builds confidence. One
Speaker 1: of the biggest mistakes leaders make is trying to act
Speaker 1: confident before they become competent. You've seen this before someone
Speaker 1: gets promoted. They walk into the role with a lot
Speaker 1: of swagger, a lot of big speeches, and a lot
Speaker 1: of energy. But when the real work starts, the cracks
Speaker 1: begin to show. They cannot answer questions, they avoid tough decisions,
Speaker 1: they deflect responsibility. Their confidence starts to fade because it
Speaker 1: was never built on competence, It was built on appearance.
Speaker 1: Real confidence comes from knowing that you have prepared yourself.
Speaker 1: It comes from doing the work when nobody is watching,
Speaker 1: reading the reports, understanding the systems, learning the details of
Speaker 1: your operations, talking to your team, studying the industry, and
Speaker 1: listening more than you speak. These are the quiet habits
Speaker 1: that build competence, and competence compounds over time. Let me
Speaker 1: give you a practical example. If you want to become
Speaker 1: confident running meetings, you do not become confident by hoping
Speaker 1: the meeting goes well. You become confident by preparing the agenda,
Speaker 1: studying the topics, anticipating questions, understanding the data, running dozens
Speaker 1: of meetings, learning what works and what falls flat. Each
Speaker 1: time you do it, your competence improves, and with every improvement,
Speaker 1: confidence grows. This is the same pattern in every leadership skill.
Speaker 1: Difficult conversations, strategic decisions, public speaking, crisis management, delegation. None
Speaker 1: of these skills begin with confidence. They begin with learning. Learning,
Speaker 1: then repetition, then reflection, then improvement, and eventually something interesting happens.
Speaker 1: You stop worrying about whether you can handle the situation.
Speaker 1: You know you can. That is confidence. Another thing leaders
Speaker 1: need to understand is that your competence creates stability for
Speaker 1: your team. When your team sees that you understand the work,
Speaker 1: they relax, They trust your decisions, they believe your direction,
Speaker 1: They feel safe following your leadership. But when leaders lack competence,
Speaker 1: teams feel it immediately. People start second guessing, They look
Speaker 1: for guidance somewhere else, They become hesitant, the culture starts
Speaker 1: to wobble. Leadership confidence is contagious, but so is leadership uncertainty.
Speaker 1: This is why great leaders stay students of their craft
Speaker 1: even after years in leadership. They keep learning. They read,
Speaker 1: they observe, that ask questions, They study people who are
Speaker 1: better than they are, not because they lack confidence, but
Speaker 1: because they understand how confidence is built through competence. I
Speaker 1: want to challenge you with a question today, where in
Speaker 1: your leadership do you wish you had more confidence? Think
Speaker 1: about it honestly. Maybe it's communication. Maybe it's financial understanding.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's strategic planning. Maybe it's conflict resolution. Now ask
Speaker 1: yourself a second question. Have you invested the time to
Speaker 1: become competent in that area or have you been hoping
Speaker 1: confidence would appear on its own. Confidence is not magic.
Speaker 1: Confidence is the result of disciplined practice. The great news
Speaker 1: is that competence is learnable. You can study, you can train,
Speaker 1: you can observe great leaders, You can practice. You can
Speaker 1: fail and improve every one of those steps builds competence,
Speaker 1: and competence builds confidence. The leaders who seem fearless are
Speaker 1: usually the leaders who prepared the most. They did the
Speaker 1: work long before the spotlight appeared. That is the real secret,
Speaker 1: not charisma, not personality, its preparation. So here is your
Speaker 1: seven minute leadership challenge today. Pick one leadership skill where
Speaker 1: you want to be more confident. Then spend the next
Speaker 1: thirty days building competence in that area. Read about it,
Speaker 1: practice it, ask someone experienced for their feedback, study the
Speaker 1: mechanics of it. At the end of those thirty days,
Speaker 1: something will change. Your knowledge will grow, your comfort will increase,
Speaker 1: Your decisions will become sharper, and slowly, quietly, confidence will
Speaker 1: show up, not because you chased confidence, because you built competence.
Speaker 1: That is how real leaders grow. So I want you
Speaker 1: to remember this confidence is not something that you claim.
Speaker 1: It is something people see after you have done the work.
Speaker 1: Build your competence every day, study your craft, sharpen your thinking,
Speaker 1: learn the details that others ignore. Because when competence grows,
Speaker 1: confidence follows, and when confidence follows, people will trust your
Speaker 1: leadership in ways that speeches and slogans could never achieve.
Speaker 1: This has been the seven Minute Leadership Podcast, and I
Speaker 1: thank you for listening. For more Paul fell of Alito Podcasts,
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