Coaching practices for Sfbt Confidence Scale

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I make calls all the time but I never write them down or check them later, so my confidence is just a feeling that floats free
• My confidence comes straight from how good a story I can tell myself about this particular case, and the more vivid the story the surer I get
• I don’t believe I can actually pull this off, and the things I do that take real grit I just wave away as nothing
• I’ll declare I’m totally sure about something, but the instant I imagine actually putting real money on it my stomach tightens
• When I say I’m eighty percent sure I genuinely don’t know if that means anything

Practices that may help

1. Maintain a scored prediction log
   Record predictions with explicit probabilities and score them when they resolve.
   Calibration Training
2. Anchor your confidence level on base rates, not gut feel
   Start your confidence estimate from the historical hit rate for this type of prediction, not from how confident you feel.
   Calibration Training
3. Complimenting Strengths Throughout the Session
   Deliberately name real strengths, efforts, and resources the person displays — not as praise but as information.
   Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Building On What Works
4. Calibration Training
   Calibration training teaches you to match your stated confidence levels to your actual accuracy: if you say "70% confident," roughly 70% of those claims should turn out to be correct. Tetlock’s forecasting research and probability training studies show calibration is trainable with practice and feedback — the evidence here is specific and replicable.
5. Put stakes on your beliefs — even hypothetically
   Ask: "Would I bet on this?" to separate genuine confidence from performed confidence.
   The Scout Mindset
6. Practice calibration by tracking your confidence predictions
   Your "80% confident" beliefs should come true about 80% of the time — check that they do.
   Bayesian Thinking: How to Update Beliefs Rationally
7. Confidence-accuracy gap tracking
   After each test, compute and record the gap between your predicted and actual scores.
   Feeling of Knowing: Why Your Confidence Misleads You
8. Confidence Scaling After the Miracle Question
   Once the miracle is described, scale how confident the person is that they can take one small step toward it.
   The Miracle Question: Designing Your Life Without the Problem
9. The SBI Feedback Model, Made Practical
   The SBI model (Situation–Behavior–Impact), developed by the Center for Creative Leadership, structures feedback by anchoring it to an observable moment, describing the behavior seen rather than inferring motive, and naming the actual impact. This reduces defensiveness and attribution errors; the model is established clinical practice in leadership development, though direct RCT comparisons to other feedback approaches are limited.
10. Translate beliefs into bets to reveal your true confidence
    Would you bet $100 on that belief at even odds? The answer often reveals the gap between claimed and actual confidence.
    Bayesian Thinking: How to Update Beliefs Rationally

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