Face Your Weakness: Building Confidence in Your Leadership
Feb 28, 2024
No one wants to admit that they have a weakness. Our weaknesses can be intimidating and tend to be completely ignored or pushed aside. But if you want to be confident in your leadership, you have to face your weaknesses.
Our strengths are easy to be confident in, because we don't have to put much effort or thought into them, but our weaknesses need more effort and more thought if we want to be confident in our leadership on all levels.
Facing your weaknesses will do three things for you and your leadership; it will force you to grow, it will humble you, and it will make you a better leader.
1) It will force you to grow:
Leadership is a journey, not a destination. If you want to be the best leader you can be, than you have to constantly grow along your leadership journey; once you reach the top of one mountain, you will be at the bottom of the next. When you face your weaknesses and realize what you need to work on, you will be in the uncomfortable zone and that is where you need to be to grow.
2) It will humble you:
When you can let yourself look deep within and admit where you are weak, you automatically humble yourself. Being humble is what creates trust in your followers and is an honorable trait for any leader to possess. Facing your weaknesses not only makes you humble, but it helps you to be more understanding of others. The more humble you are, the more relatable you are.
3) It will make you a better leader:
When you open yourself up to grow and when you allow yourself to be humble, you automatically become a better leader. Just like admitting when you are wrong, admitting that you have weaknesses and that you are wanting to get better at them is incredibly respected and shows that you are a leader worth following. So growing from your weaknesses and humbling yourself through the process is what will make you a better leader.
When you admit to yourself what your weaknesses are and actually put forth the effort to embrace them and get better at them, you will be a lot more prepared for any situation that you might be weak in and will in turn be more confident in your leadership.
So lean into your weaknesses, grow from them, humble yourself through them, and you will develop a confidence that you would not have if you had pushed them aside.
- Dean
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