Every professional voice coach worth their salt will bring you back to the importance of tone, pace, and pitch. While these concepts were introduced earlier in The Art of Body Language section, we can...
Finding commonality with another person can help you create an instant bond by transcending social differences and going straight to creating rapport. Finding common ground allows you to connect the d...
Follow your heart, but take your brain with you! After buying an armload of funny books filled with clean jokes, one-liners, and speech openers, I discovered how truly spot-on Joe had been. Inserting...
Heed Your Speed. Are you a fast or a slow talker? Be mindful towards the person with whom you are speaking to ensure that your message is being comprehended, understood, and absorbed. If they are list...
I have a few friends who are confined to wheelchairs for access and mobility. I don't want to always be looking down at them while they are looking up at me. To enjoy a meaningful conversation, I’m qu...
If people would read more of these humor books, they wouldn’t need all those self-improvement books!
Move beyond yourself to serve a greater purpose and vision. Learn to mix, mingle, and glow, thus helping others feel more comfortable, at ease, important, and connected.
People who exude these qualities are treasures indeed—not only to the friends they make and strangers they meet, but to the companies who employ them.
Professional Networking The first week I lived in Madison, WI, I sought a local chapter meeting for ATD (Association for Training Development). Having belonged to the same organization in Florida, I k...
The Art of Action explores specific action steps you can take for personal and professional transformation. Start by taking the initiative to be kind, courageous, and polite.
The discovery that making great first impressions can be a learned skill helped me to understand that we can and do have power over how we affect and impact others and on how well we are received in t...
The more positively centered and grounded you are in your authentic being, the more people may be drawn to you.
There are times when making a great first impression is essential and you need to do everything in your power to be diligent, deliberate, and dedicated to making the connection count.
Through change and challenge, if our personal foundations are built with quality virtues of character and integrity, we are more resilient, healthy, and ultimately more impressive.
To help get your creative juices flowing, you might look online at lists of the best taglines ever. Their branding ideas are genius and may be just the catalyst you need to activate your awesome!
We are each a work in progress—special and unique. By learning and living the Art of First Impressions, you can design a masterpiece of which you can be proud.
You would be surprised how even the simplest of smiles can ease a social situation, encourage another, remove barriers, and dissolve differences. It is not only a gift to the recipient, but you will r...
Your way of being impacts your happiness and outcomes—the wisdom of your choices, your confidence and courage, your self-esteem, how you are perceived and received by others, and the quality of your r...
A smile is one of the most powerful and important body language cues we share with others—and as such a heartfelt emotion, it's impossible to express its effect on others in words.
Along with the Law of Attraction there is also an Attractor Factor for easily building camaraderie and commonality for making a positive first impression. Seek to find:1. Shared History2. Shared Stori...
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