This Is How Good Self-esteem Enhances Our Leadership Capacity
Leadership ability is a very valuable psychological characteristic in both private and professional life. For example, being a good leader allows us to inspire and raise our sons and daughters well, helps to energize our groups of friends to avoid always falling into the same routines, and can even be useful in the world of hobbies and interests based on The cooperation.
Furthermore, nowadays, there are many companies that require high leadership capacity from certain job profiles, whether to be at the helm of a company department or to remain in charge of a work project.
However, leadership is not a personal quality that exists in a vacuum, disconnected from the rest of the person’s characteristics. In fact, The ability to be a leader is a skill closely related to having good self-esteem Let’s see why.
Self-esteem is the way we people value ourselves and to compare ourselves with other people or based on an ideal that we would like to resemble.
This assessment is emotional in nature, and does not always correspond to the person we really are, that is, it may be deformed. In summary: people who have a good self-image of themselves have high self-esteem, while those who have a poor and pessimistic image of themselves have low self-esteem.
Leadership, for its part, is the ability to organize, guide and guide other people with the aim of achieving any success in work projects specific jobs or in any area of daily life that involves cooperating and coordinating.
This ability is one of the most in-demand skills in today’s labor market and can be trained in many ways.
How can good self-esteem strengthen our ability to lead?
These are some of the psychological processes through which good self-esteem acts as an ally when leading teams or groups of people in the professional or personal sphere.
1. Avoid blocking others
The dizzying pace and increasingly higher demands of today’s labor market make it easier for some people to end up having real blockages in situations that they cannot or do not know how to solve especially if they know that the actions that other people will take will depend on their decisions.
These types of frequent blocks or constant doubts about how to act (even if you have the necessary skills to carry out that specific task) can be overcome by having adequate self-esteem and believing in yourself.
With a good level of self-esteem, each person will be able to successfully overcome every blockage or doubt that may arise, something key when leading, because Leadership requires acting fluidly and knowing how to measure times
2. It allows you to face conflicts and not run away from them
In the workplace, it is very common to have to deal daily with all kinds of conflicts, problems and clashes of interests that must be overcome to move forward.
It is very common for some people to have certain difficulties in overcoming these types of conflicts, either due to lack of experience or simply because they consider that one is not prepared to successfully overcome them.
Self-esteem, in these cases, plays a fundamental role, since having an optimal level of it allows us to will help mediate and promote measures of apology and reparation of damages something necessary to keep the groups together.
3. Prevent excessive shyness from hindering communication
Self-esteem is also of great importance to overcome the interpersonal communication difficulties and the excesses of shyness that some people show when they have to interact with co-workers, superiors or even subordinates.
And social and communication skills are of vital importance in any individual or team work environment, both to know what is happening at all times within the team or work group, and to know the current situation of each department or people involved. lead and make relevant strategic decisions.
4. Help inspire others
High self-esteem is also necessary when it comes to inspire other coworkers who need guidance or support as well as to serve as a role model in work teams in which we work together or that are under our responsibility.
In addition to that, people who have an adequate level of self-esteem do not usually worry about “what they will say”, and are willing to communicate and inspire by appealing to emotions, with the aim of motivating their colleagues without any fear of “standing out.” ”.
And an element closely related to the ability to inspire other people in a work environment is also the ability to motivate, one of the essential virtues that every good leader must have.
While people with low self-esteem do not trust their abilities and limit themselves to transmitting textual information in a dehumanized way, a leader with high self-esteem will know how to appeal to the emotions of others to move her and increase the motivation of her team.
5. Allows you to set an example
As we have seen, people with high self-esteem also play a very important role in any company, which is to serve as a model to other colleagues who need guidance and support of any type.
In any work environment, it is necessary for leaders to demonstrate to other colleagues and also to subordinates that it is possible to be emotionally well, at peace with oneself, and at the same time work diligently directing any project or team.
6. Strengthens assertiveness to represent the group
Good self-esteem makes it possible for us not to tolerate disrespect towards us in our role as leaders, and allows us to claim our rights and the interests of any project we represent always respecting the integrity and dignity of other people (a social skill known as assertiveness).
7. Generates a high degree of involvement in each project
High self-esteem allows us to identify at all times the needs and interests of each project in which we are participating and enables maximum involvement from minute one in pursuit of its success, because it facilitates that we see ourselves capable of reaching the objectives to be achieved collectively
8. Allows you to maintain a firm strategy
Good self-esteem means that we do not depend on the constant approval of others, which helps us not make our leadership “wobble” to adjust to the expectations of others.
A good leader with high self-esteem will always be able to achieve the success of the common project and will lead at all times with discipline and believing in their methods and strategies
Do you want to improve your self-esteem?
If you want to strengthen your self-esteem by learning to properly manage your emotions and your beliefs about yourself, contact me; You will be interested in the 8-week MBSR Mindfulness and Self-Leadership program that I offer.
My name is Lorena Irribarra I am a psychologist and accredited Mindfulness instructor, and I offer emotion and anxiety management courses using scientifically validated methods.
