Peak newsletter 🧠 | This is an excerpt from The Athletic’s weekly newsletter covering the mental side of sports. Sign up here to receive the Peak newsletter directly in your inbox.Every month, New York Giants coach John Harbaugh will answer reader-submitted questions about leadership.Harbaugh is in his first year with the Giants after 18 seasons coaching the Baltimore Ravens, where he won the Super Bowl in 2013. He is also the co-founder of the Harbaugh Coaching Academy, a non-profit designed to help coaches at all levels.Two weeks ago, readers of the Peak newsletter emailed the first round of questions, and I picked seven for Harbaugh to answer.Anyone interested in asking Harbaugh a question about leadership can submit one in the box below.Now, on to the questions:How do you help a player get their confidence back? — Ted S.Harbaugh: You’re meeting people where they’re at all the time. When a player loses confidence, what does that mean? What’s been going on in their life? What’s been going on in their career? Was it a specific play?The bottom line is that if you build a relationship with people, especially those you work with or coach in this case, you build trust. They know you’re in their corner, that you care about them, that you want what’s best for them.And maybe sometimes your dreams for them are even bigger than their own dreams, perhaps. Your vision for them is, in their heart of hearts, what they hope and dream for themselves — that big dream they have is the same big dream you have for them.When you start with that, then it’s easy to have the conversations around achievement, accomplishment, performance and even confidence.Confidence is a very important thing; it’s a key thing. But it’s built on a lot of platforms.To me, that’s what a good coach, a good mentor, a good teacher, a good friend would want to do.Jason Kelce's favorite piece of mental adviceElise DevlinWe often hear that coaches get fired when players have tuned them out or are tired of their coaching styles. As someone who manages people, I won’t get fired for that, but how do you change your style or message without changing who you are when you feel you are being tuned out or ignored by subordinates (in your case, players)? — Chris J.Harbaugh: It’s not so much about group dynamics as it is individual relationships. Before I get into a team meeting, I’ve already had a bunch of conversations with as many guys in the room as I can.We have a lot of guys and a lot of people, so it’s hard to touch everybody every day. But every chance I get, every opportunity that comes my way, I try to get involved with the individual.So then when I’m standing in front of the room, and I see the faces, we’ve had a talk. I can look them right in the eye, and we both know where we’re at in our particular relationship.It goes back to trying to meet everybody where they’re at one at a time, and then there is no such thing as a stale message. That’s not relevant. Because you’re in a relationship. You’re working with the person, you’re working together, and you’re working for something really important to that person, which in this case is their career.