First Impressions in 30s or Less - 1st July 2007
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We’ve all been single and hence tried to chat people up
However my line of “Hi I’m
Mr Right I believe you were looking for me”
Didn't seem to give a very good first impression and certainly wasn't very
successful
If you remember the old Indian elephant story its amazing the different perspectives people can get of us
So I decide to investigate how long we have to make a first impression.
My web research concluded
that that common view is that it takes between 7 and 30 seconds for
people to make a first impression.
I was amazed at how little time that is! and so I searched Google to find
how to make a good first impression and I found over 29 million
articles on Google on how to make a good first impressions.
Good to Great - Jim Collins 7 Habits - Stephen Covey Discover you Strengths - M Buckingham Richard Branson's Auto biography Brilliant Memory - Dominic O'Brien Think & Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill Freakonomics - Stephen Levitt Getting Things Done - David Allen The Machine That Changed the World Watching the English - Kate Fox
Archives
3 Blind Men & An Elephant
Someone Everyone Anyone
No-one
12 Questions to
High Performance
The Bee Can't Fly but No-one told the
bee
The Maverick Mindset of
Baseball
Three Men and a Boat
Stop
Two Cannibals & a Beautiful Girl
The Meaning of Life
What was your name again?
Two Frogs
Is Common Sense Possible
An Architects Vision
Does Edison Turn Your Light On
Other books and CDs I've mentioned can be found here
There are loads of great audio programs at Nightingale Conant's ,web site here,
But if your like me, the first 30 seconds don't always seem to workout that well, such as my old chat up line, so I wondered if the first 30 seconds go wrong how do you change that first impressions.
So I went back to Google and
I searched and searched but surprisingly I couldn't find any articles
on how to change a first impression
So there appears to be no
quick wins or simple tips on how to change a first impression.
But looking at a few of the 29 million articles on how to make a good
first impression, the advice all boils down to
How you look, listen, sound, and the words you use.
So with a little thought
and preparation maybe its not that difficult to get that first 30 seconds
right and the effort, time and complexity is a lot less than
correcting that initial impression later.
In addition according to many of the articles I read first impressions
don't just apply to face to face meetings, they apply to everything;
including emails, phone calls, presentations and reports
For all these areas you
still only have 30 seconds to make that first impression.
So next time I meet someone new, or make that phone call, or do a
presentation
I’ll be thinking, how do I make that right impression in 30 seconds or
less!
And if was single again then maybe I'd have better luck chatting people up
than I used to
Till next week make some great impressions
David Gardner
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