Imposter Syndrome Worksheet

A director of product management was promoted eight months ago after consistently strong performance at the manager level. She has been making solid decisions and is well-regarded by her team. In coaching sessions, she describes a persistent background conviction that her previous role did not prepare her for this level and that her current success is contingent on conditions that could change. When her coach points to specific accomplishments, she acknowledges them and then adds a qualification: the team made it happen, the conditions were favorable, or the challenge wasn't actually that hard. She has not named this as a pattern.

Position the tool as strategy selection, not diagnosis. 'There are ten strategies on this worksheet that people use when...