Coaching practices for The Confidence Competence Loop with My Team
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- I feel completely sure about this decision, which is honestly starting to make me nervous
- I feel like I have to look certain and have all the answers in front of my team, and I’m starting to wonder if that very armor is exactly why none of them will admit when they’re unsure either.
- When something doesn’t land the way I hoped, I write the whole thing off as a failure and myself along with it
- On my team nobody will admit they’re stuck or wrong or don’t know something
- When the practice step is just a private promise to myself, I let it quietly slide every time with nobody the wiser
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 - Model vulnerability and uncertainty as a leader to accelerate safety
Deliberately share your own uncertainties, mistakes, and questions — it gives permission for others to do the same.
The Four Stages of Psychological Safety - 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 - Build vulnerability-based trust
Teams that can’t admit weakness, mistakes, or ignorance to each other cannot genuinely collaborate.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Made Practical - Use public commitment to close the action gap
Announce a specific next skill-building action to someone who will follow up.
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 - Pair confidence work with honest, accurate appraisal of your actual standing
Confidence without accurate self-assessment is overconfidence — the goal is calibrated self-belief, not boosted belief.
Power Posing Revisited - 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 - 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 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.
- 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 In A New Job
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 When Burned 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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