Making Your First Impression (Part 1)
Picture yourself at a social gathering: a wedding, group interview, night down the pub. A stranger enters the room. Within few seconds, you’ll have made a whole range of crucial judgments about this person. And you will be amazed to know that a research says, if we make bad impression on the first time we meet someone, we have to make 21 good impressions to make our record in good standing.
Making a good impression in public is a combination of lot of things. In other words, lots of things together make your first impression. Let us analyze them one by one.
The very first impression that a person carries about you is from your appearance. Let’s face it! Whether you like it or not that is the fact. Your appearance carries a non verbal message about what kind of person you are. The way a person dresses gives an indication of the person’s wealth, social standing, vanity, cleanliness and taste. First impressions influence the attitudes of others towards you. So dress appropriately for the occasion.
Another important thing that makes your first impression in public is the way you act. A person acts is probably the most important determining factor in the impression he makes. A person may give the impression of being self-assured, confident, important, or knowledgeable. Or the person can appear nervous, unsure and not having much to offer. Research has shown that most people pay more attention to, and believe more readily, their impression of how a person acts through body language than what is said through words.
