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Self-Efficacy: The key to high performance in organizations

Louisa Jewell, MAPPwww.louisajewell.comlouisa@louisajewell.com

CPPA President

©2014 Positive Matters

• What is Self Efficacy?

• How does it affect performance?

• Why is it more important for innovation than creativity?

Agenda

• What can we do to build it in organizations?

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Self-Efficacy

• Self-efficacy is a person’s belief in his or her ability to succeed in a particular situation. Albert Bandura described these beliefs as determinants of how people think, behave, and feel (1994).

• Self-efficacy is domain-specific Dr. Albert Bandura

Belief

Expectation

Motivation

Performance

Interpretation

Beliefs as Self-fulfilling Prophecies

Subjective

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Psychological Capital

• Hope

• Efficacy

• Resilience

• Optimism

“The good news is these can all be increased and managed”

Dr. Fred LuthansLuthans F., Youssef, C.M., & Avolio, B. J. (2007)

Psychological capital. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

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Self-Efficacy strongly correlated to work-performance

Results of the primary meta-analysis indicated a significant

correlation between self-efficacy and work-related performance

= .38

• This increase in performance due to self-efficacy represents a

greater gain than those obtained in meta-analyses examining

the effect on performance of goal-setting, feedback

interventions and organizational behavior modification

Stajkovic, A. D., & Luthans, F. (1988). Self-efficacy and work-related performance: Ameta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 124(2), 240-261. (over 2000 citations)

Intrinsic Motivation

Autonomy

CompetenceRelatedness

Much research has shown that competence is an important human need central to achievement motivation and goal pursuit

Source: Deci, E.L., & Ryan, R.M. (2000). The “What” and “Why” of goal pursuits: Human needs and the self-determination of behaviour. Psychological Inquiry, 11, 227-268.

Self-Determination Theory

Efficacy beliefs affect motivation and action

Efficacy Beliefs affect performance by influencing…

The level of Goals we set

The amount of effort we expend towards those goals

Whether we persevere in the face of setbacks while striving for goals

More positive outcome expectancies

Self-efficacy improves resilience…

“When faced with obstacles, setbacks and failures, those who doubt their capabilities slacken their efforts,

give up prematurely, or settle for poorer solutions. Those who have a strong belief in their capabilities

redouble their effort to master the challenges.”

Albert Bandura

Self-efficacy reduces stress…

“Those of low efficacy are stressed both emotionally and physiologically by perceived overload, in which task

demands exceed their perceived coping capabilities; whereas those who hold a high belief in their efficacy

and that of their group are unfazed by heavy workloads”

Albert Bandura

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“Everything is figuroutable”

Marie Forleo

Self-efficacy Beliefs

Behavior Action

Self-efficacy is more important to innovation than creativity

Jack Canfield &

Mark Victor Hansen

4 Ways to Develop Self-efficacy

1. Successful

Performance

experiences

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Make it Safe to Fail

The King of Failure

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High performers need to know how to deal with set-backs and failure effectively…

Because success and failure is actually on the same road…

Promote a Growth mindset

You are born with a certain IQ and you

can’t significantly change that

IQ stays fixed over your lifetime

You either have it or you don’t

You are not born with a certain IQ and you

can significantly change your IQ

IQ is not fixed over your lifetime

If you don’t have it, you can develop it

Fixed Mindset

Growth Mindset

Fixed Mindset

Growth Mindset

• Were more concerned with ‘looking good’

• Avoided challenges

• Gave up more easily

• Saw effort as a sign of low intelligence or

talent

• Ignored useful feedback

• Were more concerned with learning

• Embraced challenges

• Persisted in the face of setbacks

• Viewed effort as a necessary path to

success

• Learned from criticism

Fixed Mindset

Growth Mindset

In what areas of your life would you say

you have a fixed mindset?

How does this affect your performance

in this area?

In what areas of your life would you say

you have a growth mindset?

How does this affect your performance

in this area?

Building a Growth Mindset: Praise and Criticize the right way

Researchers identified two distinct patterns of reactions to failure:

A helpless pattern

A mastery-oriented pattern

The following predicted reactions to a subsequent failure:

Person Praise/Criticism

Outcome Praise/Criticism

Process Praise/Criticism

Kamins, M., & Dweck, C. (1999). Person versus process praise and criticism: Implications forcontingent self-worth and coping. Developmental Psychology, 35, 835–847.

Other Outcomes

Contingent Self-Worth

That our self-worth (or self-esteem) is invested in certain domains of our lives

Person praise promotes this idea of contingent self-worth

Contingent self-worth is problematic especially when we fail

Dr. Jenny Crocker Ohio State University

Crocker’s Critique of Self-Esteem

When we are more concerned with boosting our self-esteem (and feeling good) we don’t necessarily engage in the activities required to improve our performance and mastery over time

There is a difference between ‘having’ self-esteem and ‘pursuing’ self-esteem

“Why do I care?”

Ego-system: Inward motivation

Eco-system: Outward motivation

Dr. Jenny Crocker Ohio State University

Mental RehearsalModeling

4 Ways to Develop Self-efficacy

2. Vicarious experiences

4 Ways to Develop Self-efficacy

3. Social Persuasion

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The average person talks to themselves at a

rate of 300 to 1000 words per minute

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Practice Self-Compassion

I can’t love myself!

Research Studies…

Self-compassionate students reported feeling less self-conscious and nervous before a big interview when compared to the group with high self-esteem.

After a failure, self-compassionate participants were less likely to feel humiliated or incompetent, or to take it too personally compared with the high self esteem group – Self compassion makes it safe to fail

Self-compassionate people were relatively unflustered when receiving both positive and negative feedback and willing to take responsibility

Self-compassion is associated with steadier and more constant feelings of self-worth over time.

Dr. Kristin Neff

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Self-compassion Exercise

1. Find a partner

2. Partner A & B: What types of things do you usually criticize, judge or beat yourself up about?

3. Make note of what you usually say to yourself when you are particularly harsh with yourself. Share this with your partner.

4. Once you have finished sharing what you say to yourself. Tell your partner what your most compassionate friend would say to you about this same thing.

5. Do the two differ? Are they similar?

What will your self-compassionate mantra be?

4 Ways to Develop Self-efficacy

4. Interpretation of physiological and emotional states

• Re-interpret signs of nervousness• Power poses • Turn your mood into a good mood

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Human Flourishing – Positivity Ratios

Positive Emotion

Negative Emotion

Higher ratios correlated with higher levels of well-being and performance

Source: Fredrickson & Losada (2005). American Psychologist, 60, 678-686.

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Increase Team Positivity Ratio

Encourage people to get outside for lunch every day, take 15-minute coffee break with co-workers, music, perform random acts of kindness, yoga, walking desks, gratitude walls

Employ effective conflict resolution processes, flex hours, stop email after a certain hour and/or weekends, teach psychological safety, be tough on bullying

What can you do in your workplace?

Thank you! Louisa Jewell, MAPP

louisa@louisajewell.com

www.louisajewell.com

@louisajewell

www.cppa.ca

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