Coaching practices for The Confidence Competence Loop in a New Job
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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
- I’m just starting out and I keep holding my clumsy early attempts up against people who’ve been doing this effortlessly for years
- I’m new on this team and tempted to lead with how relatable and human I am, but nobody’s seen me actually deliver yet
- When something doesn’t land the way I hoped, I write the whole thing off as a failure and myself along with it
- I keep waiting to feel confident before I’ll raise my hand or go for the thing, and the confidence never just shows up
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 - Recalibrate your comparison pool deliberately
Choose to compare your skill against your past self, not against peers at the top of their learning curve.
The Confidence–Competence Loop - Build a credibility foundation before showing vulnerability
The pratfall effect only works if people already perceive you as competent — so earn that first.
The Pratfall Effect, Made Practical - 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 - Understand the "become it" claim accurately
Sustained behavioral practice of confidence — acting as if — can build real self-efficacy over time, through mastery experiences rather than pose duration.
Power Posing Revisited - Know and mark the edges of your circle
Label the boundary clearly: 'inside my circle’ vs 'outside my circle’ vs 'I am not sure.'
Circle of Competence - Be transparent about your competence limits
Name what you can do, what you can’t, and what you’ll need to learn — before you are found out.
The Trust Triangle - Expand the circle deliberately, not aspirationally
Grow your circle through deep study and feedback, not by simply believing you are competent.
Circle of Competence - Seek mentors who name their own uncertainty
Actively look for respected people who openly describe their own learning curve — they recalibrate your model of what mastery looks like.
Impostor Phenomenon, Made Practical
Related concerns
- The Confidence Competence Loop When Starting Out
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.
- The Confidence Competence Loop As A Caregiver
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.
- The Confidence Competence Loop At Work
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.
- The Confidence Competence Loop With Friends
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.
- Circle Of Competence At Work
Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger’s circle of competence is the idea that each person has a domain where their knowledge is genuinely deep, and that the highest-quality decisions come from staying inside that domain — or clearly knowing when you have stepped outside it. The hard part is not identifying the circle but accurately estimating its size.
- Circle Of Competence During A Big Change
Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger’s circle of competence is the idea that each person has a domain where their knowledge is genuinely deep, and that the highest-quality decisions come from staying inside that domain — or clearly knowing when you have stepped outside it. The hard part is not identifying the circle but accurately estimating its size.
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