Executive Coaching for Talent, Teams & Leaders, helping people stop and think … differently.
Stepping aside from clichés and stereotypes, I help individuals and teams to stop underestimating themselves and step outside their comfort zones.
When how we see ourselves, our confidence and our strengths and potential changes … EVERYTHING CHANGES.
GLENN WIDELKO
MASTER EXECUTIVE COACH
Confidence Demystified
Based on 25+ years’ coaching and facilitation in talent and leadership, The Stretch Zone demystifies confidence … away from all the stereotypical hype and hot air, providing the insights, principles and practices for natural confidence from the inside out.
The Stretch Zone turns our understanding of confidence on its head, inspiring us to channel our efforts and energy differently, releasing natural confidence from within … and coming from within it is authentic and congruent, real and sustainable.
When we begin to see ourselves and our confidence differently, EVERYTHING CHANGES and, no longer holding ourselves back, we seize opportunities with presence, strength and impact … achieving beyond expectations, inspiring others contagiously.
‘An amazing, thought-provoking book – completely different!’
‘A simply written, profoundly penetrating book’
‘A profound, life enhancing book that is easy to read and is for everyone.’
‘This is a great read, breaking down all aspects of confidence.’
‘If only I had read this book 25 years ago!!’
‘Completely re-defines the concept of confidence.’
‘A breath of fresh air that cuts through the confusion.’
Opportunities to master your Stretch Zones
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The Stretch Zone Digital
Everything you need for authentic confidence, with 7 modularised videos you can work through at your own pace in your own space.
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The Stretch Zone Optimise
A follow up to TSZ Digital, this video module will help you optimise your readiness for your next big challenge in your stretch zone.
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The Stretch Zone Assessment
A questionnaire profiling you against 7 types of self-limiting doubt, enabling insight into how you hold yourself back under pressure.
“The most positive and amazing thing I’ve ever learnt!”
Assessing Your Confidence
To what extent does your confidence:
Hold you back so you achieve less than your potential?
Feel like hard work, draining your energy and impact?
Come and go, disappearing when you need it most?
Undermine creative ideas that never come to fruition?
Trigger overdone caution, so opportunities pass you by?
Sap your passion and enthusiasm, demotivating you?
Leave you questioning yourself and your potential?
That you need help with confidence doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with you, it only means you’re human! It is a positive sign that you are stretching yourself outside your comfort zone … a good thing!!
“EVERYONE has a stretch zone … and confidence is a challenge for EVERYONE … who has the courage to step outside their comfort zones.”
Glenn Widelko
What are Your Stretch Zones?
Our stretch zones are different for different people …
… and tend to change over time!!
Leadership
Talent & Specialists
Sales & Service
Consulting
Business Development
Entrepreneurship
Thinking Under Pressure
Performance
Assessments
Teamwork
Change & Uncertainty
Seizing Opportunities
Interviews
Promotions
Networking
Learning New Things
Speaking Up
Being Heard
Presentations
Personal Brand & Selling Oneself
Imposter Syndrome
Being Yourself
Shyness in Groups
Stereotypes & Labels
Being Different
Demands & Expectations
Executive Directors
Decision-Making
Dealing with Unknowns
Adapting to the Unexpected
Assertiveness
Difficult Relationships
Challenging Conversations
Taking the Initiative
Awkward Situations
Saying ‘No’ & Saying ‘Yes’
Giving & Receiving Feedback
Introversion & Extroversion
Influencing & Conflict
Fear of Failure
Underestimating Oneself
Resilience
Nerves, Anxiety & Stress
Mental Health
Presence & Impact
New Opportunities
Being Overlooked
Goal Setting
Obstacles & Setbacks
Schools & University
Studying & Exams
Deadlines & Expectations
Competition & Sport
Drama, Music & Acting
Innovation & Creativity
Youth & Peer Pressure
Dating & Relationships
Marriage & Parenting
Sibling Rivalry
Self-Esteem & Self-Worth
Mental Health
Calm & Composure
Happiness & Well-Being
Youth & Peer Pressure
Acceptance & Belonging
Aggression & Intimidation
Feeling Inadequate
Taken for Granted
Happiness & Well-Being
"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.”
Anna Freud
“I probably haven’t truly believed in myself … until now!!”
Client Feedback
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‘The stretch zone has helped me see my confidence and potential quite differently. It has put me in a very different space where I’m no longer holding myself back and avoiding difficult situations.’
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‘What a ‘light bulb’ moment! The stretch zone coaching has helped me to better understand the effect I have on myself, giving me so much more control. It feels like I have made a real connection within.’
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‘Something really clicked for me. I’d spent years searching for real confidence not realising it was inside me all along. Seeing confidence differently I now know exactly how to simply be confident.’
Imagine if people all around the world had the confidence to step outside their comfort zones, no longer holding back their ideas and potential.
What difference would that make? What ideas and possibilities never happen because people underestimate themselves, holding themselves back for no reason at all!!
TSZ YouTube channel makes TSZ available to EVERYONE out there, with a range of video posts that enable people from all walks of life to think about themselves and their confidence differently … shining in achievement and happiness.
YouTube Example Videos Titles
TSZ Membership provides access to a ton of additional videos not available on YouTube for only £2.50 / month.
As a TSZ Member you’ll also receive a 10% discount on all TSZ products … and you’ll also be helping less fortunate people around the world to gain access to this material … thank you.
Opportunities to master your Stretch Zones
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The Stretch Zone Digital
Everything you need for authentic confidence, with 7 modularised videos you can work through at your own pace in your own space.
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The Stretch Zone Optimise
A follow up to TSZ Digital, this video module will help you optimise your readiness for your next big challenge in your stretch zone.
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The Stretch Zone Assessment
A questionnaire profiling you against 7 types of self-limiting doubt, enabling insight into how you hold yourself back under pressure.
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The Stretch Zone Profiling
A questionnaire profiling you against 4 classic personality types, enabling you to connect with yourself and your confidence differently.
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The Stretch Zone Strengths
An exercise to re-imagine your natural strengths differently, optimising your potential across a range of core strengths.
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The Stretch Zone Derailers
A preventative strategy to identify ways you’re likely to overdo your strengths under pressure, derailing your potential as a result.
What clients so often say:
“I’d never have thought
of confidence in this way!!”
Client Feedback
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‘It was as if a light went on. And I now have the proof that I am as capable as anyone and can manage some really strong personalities. I wish I had done this ten years ago.’
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‘What I have found is a renewed level of impact as people are really listening to and hearing me. It is as if a weight has lifted and I’ve given myself permission to be myself.’
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‘While I’ve always felt my confidence existed within me, my inner demons of doubt have held me back. I now have the tools to channel my efforts and energy differently.’