Let's see if we can review the key lessons from this course on building your own confidence. Being a strong and confident executive requires you to feel powerful, because when you feel powerful, you present the best version of yourself. In a study by the center of talent innovation 26% of what it takes to get promoted has been attributed to your presence. To that end, in this course, we connected the idea that our confidence is in large part derive by our ability to feel present. Personal presence means having an ability to rise to any occasion and represent our most authentic self, which includes our values, our talents and our opinions. Secondly, we recognize that many of us, many of us, over 70% of us suffer from this idea of imposter syndrome.

The feelings like we just don't belong, or that we just got lucky. This feeling of being an imposter can stifle us. It holds us back Being our most confident self. Third, we looked at some simple ideas we can use to boost our confidence by taking up physical space, using our bodies and our minds to trigger hormonal reactions to increase the good testosterone and lower the bad cortisol hormone. by either power posing or even just thinking about being powerful for two minutes in advance of our big event, we can elevate our personal presence and greatly enhance our confidence and our chances for a successful outcome. Confidence is just one of the six traits that make up your executive presence.

And in the related courses, you can learn how to improve your relationship building your communication skills, your level of resilience, credible leadership and personal branding. I look forward to seeing you again in another course.