How can a military leader build confidence in someone who has virtually none?

Question

The man who has zero confidence is in a training situation that requires lots of knowledge.

Answer 1

As a part of basic training, your confidence and individual thought is totally removed, then replaced with what is necessary to survive the horror and mental wrenching situations possible in war. Confidence is just a small part of the whole that is built anew.

Answer 2

One way to instill confidence in a subordinate is to gradually increase their responsibilites. This is assuming you have plenty of time available. Give that person a simple tast that you know he can do easily. Have him repeat the task as often as possible. Then you add another task, then another and so on. Another way, when time is critical, is the "baptism by fire". Let him know that he needs to be able to do this and do it now. An important part of this is that you or the surperior officer in charge impart an attitude of confidence and trust in the subordinate. Often time the soldier will succeed if for no other reason than fear of letting his officer down. This only works if the officer is liked or well respected by the men. Building confidence in someone who has none is very difficult and time consuming. If the lack of confidence is due to lack of experiance, than the only thing for it is to force the experiance on him. If it is due outside factors such as family issues or peer issues then you should try to remove him from those issues during the trainning. I have known people who had extreme confidence issues when working with other people for fear of looking like a fool or failing in front of someone. These same people excelled at their tasks when they were isolated and secluded. Remove the outside pressure and you can remove the confidence block. Of course there are some people who do have some psycological issues causing lack of confidence. In these cases the person needs professional help and should be removed from the training enviornment.

Answer 3

Give him an easy task first with an appropriate responisiblities.....and if he succeeds...Encourage him..say"goodjob...well done...you are the man",.......which will boost his morale.....and then gradualy increase responisbilities...and rewards..keeping encouregement ..is a must..........

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You must know why doesnt he have self confidence??...ask him about his personal life if u can....help him if u can.......but generaly...non confident people are non confident ....because they dont want to fail....so...doing the above steps..will do some great help.!!!!!!!!

Answer 4

Start with achieving small goals. As ability builds, confidence builds.

Answer 5

Give that someone some responsibility. Responsibility shows trust, and trust build self-confidence.

Answer 6

I am AD military...don't quite understand your question. Are you the "leader"? There is a difference between leaders and supervisors/trainers. Not meaning to offend...just to clarify.

Answer 7

yes, if they can train u with harsh trainging and u get good enogh by the end of the training and stuff u will have good enoght confidence to last

Answer 8

Beleave me his drill instrucyor will instill all the confidence he will ever need in life GO NAVY

Answer 9

Break up his job into little tasks that are easily accomplished. Before you know it he has accomplished them all. That should help him feel confident.

Answer 10

by stripping you down mentally and physically by respect.
the one with no confidence is half way there! Great training!