Being an impactful Product Manager requires you to lead confidently and understand how to work with other people's confidence (or lack thereof). Confidence is the foundation for effective collaboration, innovation and influence. It reduces stress and increases resilience. Confidence is a not-so-secret but least understood ingredient to having a happy, successful work and home life. Learn how to apply the latest neuroscience together with proven coaching techniques used by Olympic and professional athletes, elite military and successful C-suite executives. • Gain resilience by recognizing and retraining behaviors that can sabotage confidence. • Amp your impact when writing, speaking and visually communicating. • Use 8 Key Confidence Indicator with a Personal Confidence Dashboard to control confidence in yourself and others. • Be a better leader and team member by understanding how confidence can positively influence others. • Fuel your own focus, innovation and wellbeing while also reducing stress!

1. AIPMM Webinar Series
High Impact Product Management:
Leveraging the Neuroscience & Social
Secrets of Confidence

2. Alyssa Dver – American Confidence Institute
Our Speakers

3. The Neuroscience & Social Secrets of Confidence

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Why Product Management?
 Technically conversant
 All around interested
 Control GEEK
 Leadership path
ꙭNot being THE expert
ꙭInfluencing smart people
ꙭStraddling both sides
ꙭMaintaining well being

5. Tonight’s Objectives
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LEARN:
• What is (and is not) confidence
• How confidence looks, acts and impacts
• How to influence other people’s confidence
• How the brain processes confidence
DO:
• Assess your confidence using the 8 Key Confidence
Indicators
• Build Personal Confidence Dashboard & Plan
GET:
• Sustainable control of your confidence
• Confidence Kickers

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What can be done? Manage Yourself First
Influential people
consistently model
confidence.
Fake it till you make it
doesn’t work.
You can control only what
you can control.
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7. PROFOUND FLOW
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CONDITION CONFIDENCEPHYSICAL MENTAL EMOTIONAL
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9. Focused
Productive
Resilient
Innovative
Attractive
Content
Healthy
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10. “…confidence is something we can,
to a significant extent, control.
We can all make a decision, at any
point in our lives, to create more of it.”
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11. Who do you know
that is confident?
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12. Confident leaders:
Stay Calm
Listen Better
Diplomatic but decisive
Don’t judge
Appropriately apologize
Not defensive
Eager to learn

13. CONFIDENCE COUSINS
SELF ESTEEM
SELF
COMPASSION SELF EFFICACY COURAGE RESILIENCE
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WHO DO YOU
KNOW THAT IS
NOT CONFIDENT?

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Cocky
Indifferent
1 upper
Perpetually ‘pissed’
Pedantically nice
Identify these personalities &
don’t get rattled!
Confidence Imposters

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BONEHEAD BEHAVIOR
Don’t lose control of your confidence!

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WHAT IS CONFIDENCE?
HOME LIFE
LOVE LIFE
SOCIAL LIFE
WORK LIFE
CONFIDENCE
being satisfied with and acting in
accordance to your own values and
beliefs.
CORE CONFIDENCE
having the inner strength to uphold
those values no matter the
circumstance.

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MASLOW
SELF-ACTUALIZATION
ESTEEM
BELONGING
SAFETY
PHYSIOLOGICAL
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21. NEUROPLASTICITY
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BRAIN TRAINING

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Scene from Disney’s
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24. Confidence =
conscientious control
1. MENTAL & PHYSICAL HEALTH
2. EDUCATION & STREET SMARTS
3. FINANCIAL & CAREER SECURITY
4. PASTIMES & POSSESSIONS
5. OUTER BEAUTY & PERSONAL CARE
6. SLEEP &THINK TIME
7. FAITH & PROTECTION
8. HUMAN SUPPORT & CONNECTIONS
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25. MENTAL & PHYSICAL HEALTH
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26. Education & Street Smarts
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27. Financial Security
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28. Pastimes & Possessions
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29. Outer Beauty & Personal Care
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30. GUESS WHO?
Source: People Magazine
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31. GUESS WHO?
Source: People Magazine
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32. GUESS WHO?
Source: People Magazine
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33. GUESS WHO?
Source: People Magazine
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34. Sleep & Think Time
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35. Faith & Protection
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36. Human Support & Connections
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Personal Confidence Dashboard
Mental &
Physical
Health
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3
2
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Education
& Street Smarts
Financial
Security
Pastimes
& Possessions
Beauty
& Personal
Care
Sleep &
Think Time
Faith &
Protection
Human Support
& Connections
Pointsforevery‘Yes’

38. CONFIDENCE CAN BE CONDITIONED
≠ comprehensive
≠ consistent
controllable
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Give & Get the Gift of Confidence
• Feedback
• Contact Info
• Monthly email with latest
Confidence Conversation WebTV
• Free phone consultation
• MA Workforce Grant

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Confidence
Kickers

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It’s not just you…
– we are all full of bull-longing

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Be interested to be interesting
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Make someone’s day every day
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Stop apologizing
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45. Recognize tired
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46. Mother’s Day
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48. Zak’s Zen
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49. Cured by confidence
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Twitter: @KickAConfidence
LinkedIn: /alyssadver
Facebook: @KickassConfidence
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February 24, 2017
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