1. Confidence comes from believing in yourself and knowing your strengths, such as athletic or academic abilities. 2. Preparation is essential for developing confidence - when you are prepared for a situation through practice and hard work, you will feel more confident. 3. Sources of confidence can include parental and peer influence, experiences, and faith - but the most important source is internal belief in yourself based on your abilities and preparation.

1. Leadership Series – 1st Year
Foundational Leadership –
Part IVConfidence

2. Confidence
 What is confidence?
Confidence
Believe in yourself

3. Confidence
Believe in yourself
 Confidence is one of the most
important character qualities in
terms of making it in this world.
Life is difficult. You have to
believe in yourself to make it!

4. Confidence
Believe in yourself
 Unconfident people get swallowed up
by others. They have no back bone
and end up going the same way as
the mainstream whether they like it
or not. They let society shape them
because they do not stand up for who
they are or who they want to be.

5. Confidence
Believe in yourself
 Why are you or why are you not
self-confident?
 Parental influence:
 Did they help or hurt your confidence?
Build up or tear down.
 Did/do they believe in you?
 Should this be the source of your
confidence?

6. Confidence
Believe in yourself
 Why are you or why are you not
self-confident?
 Experience:
 Overall, has this helped you or hurt your
confidence?
 What experiences have helped shape you?
Did you succeed or fail through these
experiences?
 Should this be the source of your
confidence?

7. Confidence
Believe in yourself
 Why are you or why are you not
self-confident?
 Society
 Has society’s influence helped you or hurt
your confidence?
 What does society say should give you
confidence?
 How has peer pressure impacted your
confidence?
 Should this be the source of your
confidence?

8. Confidence
Believe in yourself
 Why are you or why are you not
self-confident?
 Faith
 Do you have a faith?
 Do you know what that faith is?
 Does your faith help or hurt your
confidence?
 Should this be the source of your
confidence?

9. Confidence
Believe in yourself
 What is the source of your
confidence? Can it be shaken? All of
us have reasons to be self-confident.
We all have reasons to believe in
ourselves.

10. Confidence–Know your strengths!
Believe in yourself
 Know your strengths!
 Another way to help with self-confidence
is to know your gifts/talents and the
strengths of your personality. Everyone
has gifts. Understanding these gifts and
personality strengths should allow you to
be confident in who you are.
 Smalley / Trent – Personality Inventory

11. Confidence through preparation
Believe in yourself
 Confidence through
preparation
 To be self-confident you have to
believe in who you are. This
confidence will permeate into
everything you do. However,
you also need to be confident in
specific tasks or situations. This
confidence comes from
preparation.

12. Confidence through preparation
Believe in yourself
 When you are prepared for a
situation, when you have done
everything possible to put
yourself in the best position
possible for success you will be
confident. Lack of preparation
leads to uncertainty and doubt.

13. Confidence through preparation
Believe in yourself
 “Having confidence enables you to perform
up to your capabilities. It gives you the
freedom to perform without the fear of
failure and without holding back.
Confidence is not totally mental or physical,
but a combination of the two. The skills
gained from hours of practice enable you to
have mental confidence in yourself. The
mental confidence enables your body to
excel. Together, mental and physical
confidence will give you an edge . . .

14. Confidence through preparation
Believe in yourself
 A coach cannot tell a player to have
confidence. Many do, while others
criticize their players for lacking
confidence. What they should really
be pointing out is that the player
lacks preparation – he hasn’t worked
hard enough. Even if the coach
doesn’t know the real reason for the
player’s lack of confidence, the player
will know.”

15. Confidence through preparation
Believe in yourself
 The greatest pep talk in the history of
locker-room coaching won’t help the
player who has cheated on his
preparation. An athlete is either
ready or he’s not. If he is not ready
it is because of a lack of preparation
– not because of a lack of confidence.
Get yourself ready, pay the price,
earn the right to have confidence.”
 The Edge p. 4-17

16. Confidence
Believe in yourself
 Self-Confidence: The Key to
Leadership
 People will follow you if they know that
you believe in yourself and if they know
you are headed somewhere.
 People buy into the leader and then
they buy into the vision. This order is
very important to realize.

17. Confidence
Believe in yourself
 Self-Confidence: The Key to
Leadership
 The key to having followers is being
self-confident. When you are in front
of others in a leadership role, the
people are listening to what you say
but they are really looking inside you to
see if you truly believe in yourself and
what it is that you are saying.
 Know your strengths and prepare!

18. Confidence
Believe in yourself
 Write down some of your strengths
athletically and
academically/professionally
 Evaluate your preparation to succeed
in those areas
 Are you confident in those areas?
Why or why not?