Leadereship effectiveness and self-confidence ... what's the connection? I'll go out on a limb here and say right up front that there is a real connection between being an effective leader and having self-confidence. And I'm saying that just from my own personal experience and the interactions I've had with business professionals in my years of consulting and coaching. I don't need any research to tell me that, I just know it.
However, it is always so nice to see research that affirms what we have long felt and that's where a recent HBR Blog Network post comes in. This particular post, by clinical psychologist Leslie Pratsch, speaks to the connection between self-confidence and women in leadership roles. Near the end of the post, she says, "the correlation between self-confidence and leadership effectiveness is overwhelmingly statistically significant for women."
I believe the connection between self-confidence and leadership effectiveness is impactful for both men and women. Albeit, there are gender differences in this area of leadership competence
just as in other areas of competence.
What do you think? Is the confidence/effectiveness connection greater for women than men?
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/11/women_leaders_need_self-confidence.html?referral=00563&cm_mmc=email-_-newsletter-_-daily_alert-_-alert_date&utm_source=newsletter_daily_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alert_date
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