Some leadership is just lending your confidence to someone who hasn’t built theirs yet.

Confidence is partly borrowed before it is owned. Somebody who has never done the thing has no evidence to draw on, so your steady belief stands in until they have their own. That is not flattery. It is saying plainly that you expect them to manage, and meaning it, and plenty of capable people needed exactly that once and still remember who offered it.

Tell one person this week that you think they can handle something specific, then put them where they can do it. Stay nearby without hovering. When it goes well, point out that the result was theirs.