Quick Confidence

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER Hands-on, bite-sized strategies for improving your confidence In Quick Confidence: Be Authentic, Create Connections and Make Bold Bets On Yourself, best-selling author and renowned leadership speaker Selena Rezvani delivers an effective and eye-opening new approach to building confidence and presence for professionals. In the book, the author walks you through—and helps you leap over—the 9 most common obstacles that stand in the way of building authentic confidence. She offers digestible actions, behaviors, and exercises you can use to change the way you think and the way you present yourself to others. Relying on sound, scientifically validated data, the book helps you zero in on one actionable method at a time, from making a memorable entrance to stoking confidence in those around you. You’ll also find: Mental, physical, and interpersonal routines that will lock in your new and confident persona for lasting change Techniques for using silence strategically and refusing to overexplain to enhance your credibility and presence Ways to overcome the intimidation factor that goes hand-in-hand with dealing with powerful people A hands-on playbook for professionals at all stages looking for effective confidence-building advice that goes beyond “fake it ‘til you make it,” Quick Confidence is a fun and rewarding journey to a renewed self-image and enhanced well-being.

Introduction 1 1 Make Strong First Impressions 11 2 Create Belonging Wherever You Go 33 3 Rebalance Power Dynamics 57 4 Release Overdoing, Overthinking, and Over explaining 81 5 Negotiate Your Success 105 6 Harness High- Stakes Moments 129 7 Overcome Toxic People and Cultures 153 8 Rise above Fails and Setbacks 175 9 Scale Your Confidence 203 Endnotes 229 Acknowledgments 235 About the Author 237 Afterword 239 Index 241