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 •