The Critical Connection Between Confidence and Leadership

Leadership and workplace expert Peter Stark describes how leaders with a developed sense of  confidence along with a sense of humility inspire the most trust and cooperation with people they supervise.

During the past twenty years, our research and hands-on experience with leaders has led us to feel strongly that there is one aspect of leadership that is so critical, that without it, real leadership cannot exist. That one critical component is confidence.

Confidence is the foundation of leadership. You can teach a leader to be an effective problem solver; become more decisive; a better communicator; how to coach, mentor and hold team members accountable; and many other fundamentals of leadership. Yet, without that leader first believing in himself or herself, true leadership will exist only in title.