From the course: Creating Great First Impressions
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The shortcut to a great first impression
From the course: Creating Great First Impressions
The shortcut to a great first impression
- Here's the big problem most professionals face, we tend to put all of our focus on crafting the perfect elevator pitch. Coming up with clever answers or telling impressive anecdotes in meetings, interviews and while networking. The problem is that none of that matters unless you can nail your first impression. Like a lever, first impressions make all of your interactions easier. No matter how well you answer an interviewer's question, no matter how beautiful your slides are, no matter how many brilliant points you make in a speech, if you have a bad first impression it's almost impossible to recover. Researchers at Cornell University found this is even true after looking at someone's photo. First impressions formed simply from looking at a photograph predicted how someone felt about a person, even after a live interaction. Yep, the old cliche is true. Even after having read the book, one still judges a book by its cover. This isn't just the way we look, or what we wear. It's also…
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