A company has a motivational speaker come into the office. The speaker asks all of the employees to close their eyes and to think of a time when they succeeded at something. He then asks them to think of a current challenge they are experiencing--something that they want to accomplish but don't know if they can. He then has them once again think of a time they were successful at something. What is the speaker MOST LIKELY attempting to do

Increase the employees' self-efficacy

Explanation:

Self-efficacy was originally proposed by psychologist Albert Bandura. It is ones personal judgement or belief in his capacity to execute actions or behaviors necessary to attain specific performance goals. In the above example, the motivational speaker is trying to boost the self efficacy of the employees by helping them remember the everything they have been in successful in and thereby boosting their motivation that they have the capacity to achieve more success in whatever situation or challenge they are facing now.