First Impression Skills
5 ways You make a First Impression:
- In person: face to face
- By phone: making a call and receiving a call
- Social Media: email, text, Face Book, twitter, you tube: REMEMBER: A 1st Impression made via Social Media is there forever! Think about what you want to say or do before you write something and put it on Social Media.
- Written: notes, letters, resumes. Pay attention to spelling, punctuation and grammar! Use spell check & grammar check. Proof read what you write OUT LOUD!
- By reputation: what people think and say about you
3 stages of making a First Impression:
- 1st Few Seconds
- 1st Few Minutes
- Lingering stage: days, weeks & months following the first two stages.
What you do speaks so loudly, I cannot hear what you’re saying
You can’t talk yourself out of problems you behave yourself into!
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