The Credibility Code: How to Project Confidence and Competence When It Matters Most

In today's highly competitive business world, being credible is not enough. You have to look credible. Still, for many professionals, credibility feels like a mystery.

Now, by pinpointing 25 specific visual and auditory cues, The Credibility Code unlocks this mystery and shows you exactly how to come across as confident, capable, and qualified in all types of person-to-person interactions.

Acclaimed credibility expert Cara Hale Alter outlines clear, concise "codes of conduct" for posture, gestures, vocal skills, eye contact, and more. And unlike countless other cues, such as gender, age, or physical features, these signals are within your active control. Individually, these behaviors are easily implemented; together, they form a skill set that can transform your career.

As a bonus, each chapter includes a link to an online video of the author demonstrating the "codes of conduct" featured in the previous pages.

Discover:
How to "crack the code" and project real credibility
What not to do - the most common image derailers
Real-world examples and exercises
Online access to short demonstration videos for each chapter
Self-assessment tools for identifying your strengths and weaknesses
A step-by-step methodology for developing your best image!

Cara Hale Alter is founder and president of SpeechSkills, a San Francisco-based communication training company. She's spent two decades studying why, among smart, capable people, some project credibility and others don't. As a corporate trainer and keynote speaker, Alter has worked with a wide range of organizations from high tech to heavy machinery, including eBay, Facebook, Google, Caterpillar, Fireman's Fund, Kendall Jackson, Williams-Sonoma, Harvard Medical School, and UC Hastings College of the Law. She is also a popular instructor at Stanford Continuing Studies and UC Berkeley Extension, and has worked professionally as a commercial and voice-over actress.