What is 360 Confidence®?

360 confidence is the attitude which allows you to have a thorough, positive and realistic view of yourself and your situation.

If you have 360 confidence:

• you trust your own abilities
• you have a sense of control in your life and work
• you expect to be successful; to achieve what you wish, plan and require.

If you are 360 confident you are:

• willing to risk the disapproval of others in service of what you believe
• able to accept yourself without feeling the need to conform in order to be accepted by others.

360 Confidence for Confident People

My preference as a coach is to work with people like me, who already have higher-than-average levels of self-confidence. So, the people I connect with best don’t need anything approaching remedial help. Instead they often want to be:

• more broadly confident – not just in three or four aspects, but in all areas of their lives and work
• more consistently confident – not having to consciously and with effort “throw the switch” to make themselves confident, but feeling it all of the time
• more genuinely confident – not feeling fake or at risk of being “found-out” but genuinely confident and comfortable with the reality of who they are and what their situation is.

When You Might Want 360 Confidence

Please take a look at the • when • section of this website for some of the situations when you might want 360 confidence.

What If You Don’t Develop 360 Confidence?

It’s not enough to ignore or push aside any concerns around confidence. Contrary to the popular myth, highly successful people are not usually driven by blind self-belief. Instead, most research shows that they have a very well developed sense of self-awareness and have worked to overcome any limiting attitudes or habits. Without true confidence, a person can only get so far before things will start to slow or unravel. In particular, people have reported:

• a sense of freezing or being unable to act decisively at important moments
• an increasing tendency to focus on distractions or side-issues or to form bad habits
• an inability to prepare for significant events; of just not doing their homework
• charging through major challenges with their heads down – and therefore never learning from or actually experiencing the challenge itself
• over-preparing or hiding away researching rather than getting “out there” where they need to be
• having to be somehow “fake” about who they are and what they stand for.

If 360 confidence might be useful to you, please • get in touch •