Table of Contents

Contents vi

About the Author viii

Acknowledgements Introduction 1

1 Boosting Self-belief and Debunking the Confidence Con 13

2 Persuading through Body Language and Nonverbal Communication 47

3 Winning with Words 93

4 Augmenting Performance through Passion 161

Conclusions: Onwards, Upwards and Over to You 207

Notes 221

Index 229

About the Author

Rob Yeung, Ph.D. is a psychologist, business speaker, management author, TV presenter and Director at Talentspace, a leadership consulting firm. He helps people to achieve their potential.
Rob has a B.Sc. in psychology from University of Bristol and a Ph.D. in psychology from King's College London, University of London. He is a chartered psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. His clients through Talentspace include Goldman Sachs, BBC, Bartle Bogle Hegarty, KPMG, British Airways, Baker Tilly, Eversheds, HSBC (as well as lots of much smaller businesses). He also worked for two years at a top tier consulting firm The Boston Consulting Group.
He has published research studies on personality in academic journals, particularly Personality and Individual Differences. He writes a column on confidence for UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph and contributes to newspapers including Financial Times, The Guardian and The Sunday Times.
He appears on television programmes including Celebrity Big Brother, BBC Breakfast, CNN news, and Working Lunch on the BBC. He previously presented the BBC television series Who Would Hire You? in which real life candidates went through the recruitment process. He also presented a further series for the BBC entitled How To Get Your Dream Job and has been an expert on Big Brother's Little Brother. He was the resident psychologist for the 2007 BBC Three series The Restaurant: You're Fried! He acted as resident psychologist on both Celebrity Big Brother and Big Brother in 2009. He was on Channel 5 only last week, being interviewed alongside Paralympic athlete Sara Storey.
Rob also teaches at several universities including Southampton, University of East London, St. Andrews and University College Dublin.

Reviews

"There are enough tips to make this useful reading for anyone wanting to ace that presentation" (The Times, September 2015)

"The book is full of great advice" (Frost Magazine, October 2015)

“Every now and then you can stumble across a book which is a little gem and you know you will go back to it time and time again.  How to stand out – Proven tactics for getting noticed by Rob Yeung is just one of those.” (B2B Marketing, October 2015)