March 2019
Beginner
176 pages
1h 41m
English
By Tara Sophia Mohr
You want to give a member of your team a stretch assignment, but she tells you she’s just “not ready yet”—she’d like to get more experience before taking it on.
You offer to make a valuable introduction for someone you mentor. He seems excited about it at first, but doesn’t follow up. Later, you discover that he felt intimidated, like he’d have nothing to say.
As managers and mentors, we frequently encounter situations like these, when we come up against the limiting voices of self-doubt in the people we support.
The negative impact of that voice is tremendous. If someone on your team is hampered by a harsh inner critic, they’re likely to talk themselves out of sharing ...
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