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Trust and adapt are two qualities that the best managers possess. In other words, adapting means being open, curious, learning and adjusting. It is a virtuous circle that allows you to be even better, more efficient and more satisfied in your professional life. Therefore, the more you know yourself, the more you know what you want, the more inclined you are to make the right choices for you. <\/p>\n
\nIt is not the strongest or the smartest who survives, it is the one with the greatest adaptability – Charles Darwin<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
So, let’s talk about self-confidence and adaptation.<\/p>\n
1- <\/b>The conflict of trusting each other<\/b><\/h2>\n
First, how to maintain a certain degree of self-confidence without falling into arrogance. Is it possible to be modest and confident? Also, how to choose a manager with “inside” confidence and how to improve as a manager. <\/p>\n
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When hiring a manager. <\/b>If, with equal competence, you have to choose between a manager who seems to be very confident (high ego index) or one who exudes less external confidence, what will be your choice? In my experience hiring as a manager, I found that the best recipe for the whole aspect of “soft” skills was related to maturity. Thus, management being what it is (complex and full of subtleties, calling for a mix of “hard” and “soft” skills), I have found that an emotionally mature person knows how to adapt to the challenges and the many paradoxes of management that his position will bring. <\/span><\/p>\n
In short, maturity is in a way the index of inner confidence. For me, professional experience does not equal maturity as much as age does not equal maturity. But how do you test the maturity of a manager? <\/p>\n
My tips for testing the maturity of a manager:<\/span><\/h3>\n
Use questions that might be found in an emotional intelligence test:<\/p>\n
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- First, what do you do when your mood changes? Then, with the behavioural approach: describe to me a situation where your mood has changed, what you have done, and the results obtained. <\/li>\n
- Next, how do you deal with your subordinates’ emotions at work?<\/li>\n
- For example, management asks to deal with an important file by taking into account XYZ, your opinion is rather to take ABC into account and your subordinates think that GHI is the most important… How do you deal with that?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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For you. <\/b>Do you want to increase your self-confidence or show more adaptation?<\/p>\n
My tips for trusting yourself and showing more adaptation:<\/span><\/h3>\n