Coaching practices for The Confidence Competence Loop During Conflict
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I feel completely sure about this decision, which is honestly starting to make me nervous
- When something doesn’t land the way I hoped, I write the whole thing off as a failure and myself along with it
- There’s a real call that has to be made right now with no time to build consensus, and I keep softening it and hedging to keep everyone happy
- Something’s genuinely wrong here and there’s no time to coax everyone to a comfortable yes
- I came in hard because the situation called for it, but partway through the urgent part got settled and the other person clearly just needed to feel heard
Practices that may help
- The Confidence–Competence Loop
Genuine confidence is not a prerequisite for action — it is a byproduct of repeated, skill-building experience. The confidence–competence loop describes how small, deliberate actions grow skill, which grows evidence of ability, which grows the willingness to act again. - Ask 'What am I missing?' before major decisions
Treat a confident feeling before a high-stakes decision as a cue to check what your competence map is omitting.
Circle of Competence - Reframe feedback from outcome to process
After any outcome — good or bad — ask "what did I do well?" before "how did it go?"
The Confidence–Competence Loop - Use Competing when speed or safety matters more than buy-in
Competing — high assertive, low cooperative — is appropriate when the decision is urgent, high-stakes, and not open for debate.
The Thomas–Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) - Competing (assertive, uncooperative)
Pursue your own position firmly when speed, principle, or stakes outweigh the relationship cost.
The Five Conflict-Resolution Styles - Recognize when to shift modes mid-conflict
The mode that’s right at the start of a conversation may not be right ten minutes in.
The Thomas–Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) - Identify your default conflict mode
Before you can choose a mode, you have to know which one you use automatically.
The Thomas–Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) - Use fierce self-compassion to stay in hard conversations
Stay present in conflict by meeting your own distress with compassion, so you don't flee or attack.
Fierce Self-Compassion, Made Practical - Recognize when your identity is being threatened — not just your position
Conversations escalate when they trigger a challenge to who you think you are, not just what you did.
Looping for Understanding (Difficult Conversations) - Look for contribution, not blame
Almost every conflict has contributions from both sides — finding yours changes the conversation.
Looping for Understanding (Difficult Conversations)
Related concerns
- Committed Action During Conflict
Stay present in conflict by meeting your own distress with compassion, so you don't flee or attack.
Use fierce self-compassion to stay in hard conversations
- Creative Confidence During Conflict
Creative confidence, as defined by Tom and David Kelley of IDEO, is the belief that you can generate good ideas and act on them — and research on self-efficacy shows it is learnable, not fixed. The core method is accumulating small creative wins through guided practice, which rebuilds confidence that was typically damaged by early criticism or comparison.
- Situational Leadership During Conflict
Situational Leadership, developed by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard, says the right leadership style depends on the follower’s readiness for a given task: match how much you direct versus support to where the person actually is. It is enormously popular in corporate training, but its empirical support is genuinely weak — treat it as a useful thinking tool, not a validated law.
- The Action Method During Conflict
Before you can choose a mode, you have to know which one you use automatically.
Identify your default conflict mode
- Tony Robbins Core Practices During Conflict
Tony Robbins’ method centers on deliberately managing your internal state — through priming, physiology, language, and focus — so that better decisions and actions follow. The practices range from well-supported (gratitude, slow breathing, mental rehearsal) to mechanistically plausible but thinly studied (incantations).
- Ultralearning Aggressive Self Directed Learning During Conflict
Ultralearning, a term popularized by Scott Young, is a strategy for intense, self-directed learning projects built on a handful of principles — metalearning, focus, directness, drill, retrieval, and feedback. The framework itself is a practitioner system, but most of its principles rest on well-studied cognitive mechanisms like retrieval practice and transfer.
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