The main difference between a person with self-confidence and a person lacking self confidence is that a person with self-confidence creates opportunities and a person without self-confidence waits for opportunities. Opportunities instigate situations and situations will result in either success or failure. Success from a situation will build confidence; failure from a situation will hinder confidence. A leader who has a high confidence level will help to create opportunities for team members. So long as the leader compliment their ream members on their abilities and help guide their success, a higher confidence rate will come naturally. Furthermore, lack of self-confidence won't hinder performance, but it will prevent growth and innovation. Self-confidence is also a concept often misunderstood. Perception plays a key role in determining the true definition of this concept. If a self-confident person is being perceived as "cocky", this will intimidate members of the team. If a self-confident person is being perceived as a "thinks he knows a lot but actually knows nothing", this will cause frustration and employee turnover will likely increase. To go even further, how is an individual perceived to have a low-self confidence? Are you sure it is lack of self-confidence in themselves and their ability? Could they be perceived as having a low self-confidence because of their personality type? If not their personality, could it be a result of their risk assessments? How do you really know? In order to understand how to raise self-confidence you need to define what low self-confidence is. In order to implement your strategy, you need to understand the person in which you are attempting to change. If you are attempting to change an individual, you need to make sure they want to change. Knowing if they want to change will be determined based upon your understanding of that individual. This is definitely a topic you could write forever about. There are many different angles, philosophies, and concepts that could be taken into consideration. But if you are sure a person has a low self-confidence, raising that can be achieved by giving that individual something or someone to believe in that is also willing to invest their time into that individual’s growth and success.

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