1131: How to Stop Playing Small at Work with Kelli Thompson

Stop overestimating others' intelligence and underestimating your own. There are leaders who appear very confident. Sometimes we put them in that pedestal, but what can happen is, is those leaders can turn into brilliant jerks who never get good feedback. People are too scared to share ideas or feedback or insights with them, so those leaders are going along thinking everything's working when it's not.

That's Kelly Thompson. She's an award-winning leadership and executive coach. Keynote speaker and author who spent over two decades helping leaders lead with more clarity and confidence through her no BS but highly compassionate approach. In her book, Closing the Confidence Gap, Booster Piece, Your Potential and Your Paycheck, she shares what it takes to overcome burnout and how to unleash your full potential at work. She'll learn one.

why overadmiring your coworkers could be undermining your progress. 2. The key to sustainable confidence. And 3, how to identify and trust your genius zone. And if you want a quick summary write up of the actual takeaways Kelly shares here, I recommend you sign up for the free gold nugget email newsletter found at awesomeatyourjob.com.

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