Friday

Five Alternate Tips for Establishing Personal Presence


Dianna Booher has been writing about professional presence and communications for decades and has a number of bestselling titles under her belt.

Here she lists five lesser-known techniques that are easy to remember and yet make all the difference when establishing presence and influence with others:

1. Take a stand: Stand to the left side of a group when you deliver laugh lines and you’ll get a better response (as opposed to the right side, where you should deliver emotional stories and appeals).

2. Observe the one-sentence rule: Recognize the importance of summarizing your concept or idea down to its core essence. If you can't summarize your idea in a single sentence, you're going to have a significantly more challenging time trying to convince the folks in the boardroom.

3. Talk to the back row: Project to those farther away from you rather than keeping your eyes on the friendly faces down front when you speak to a group. Talk to those seated in the back row, last seat. Your brain will automatically adjust your energy level, voice, and body language to project so that you can engage those people at a distance. Those even closer will engage with you as well.

4. Pause before you launch.
Talking on trajectory makes you look nervous. Whether just leaving your seat to walk to the front of a meeting room, simply rising from your chair at the conference table, or joining a conversation when someone asks your opinion, pause before you begin will increase the impact and importance of what you say.

5. Stick to the facts. Prefer verbs and nouns to adjectives and adverbs. Verbs and nouns express facts (or what sounds like fact). Verbs motivate, persuade, and demand action. Adjectives and adverbs express opinions and therefore invite people to nitpick and argue.

Thoughts? Reactions? Other ideas?

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Although for the most part these tips are great, the first one is confusing. "Stand to the left of a group." Their left or your left? Are you facing them, or are you part of the mob?

BK said...

Good point, Charlotte. You should actually stand to their left, not yours.

Anonymous said...

Asking questions are actually good thing if you are not understanding something entirely, except this post offers
good understanding yet.

Also visit my web site: diets that work for women

Anonymous said...

Hi, i think that i saw you visited my blog thus i got here to go
back the want?.I'm trying to to find things to enhance my web site!I guess its adequate to make use of a few of your concepts!!

Review my blog post - igf 1 reviews

Anonymous said...

It's really a great and useful piece of information. I am satisfied that you shared this helpful information with us. Please stay us informed like this. Thank you for sharing.

my web site garcinia indica

Anonymous said...

you're truly a excellent webmaster. The website loading velocity is amazing. It sort of feels that you are doing any distinctive trick. Moreover, The contents are masterpiece. you've done
a fantastic job on this matter!

Check out my homepage: realteethwhitening.webs.com

Anonymous said...

This design is incredible! You definitely know how to keep a reader amused.
Between your wit and your videos, I was almost moved to
start my own blog (well, almost...HaHa!) Great job. I really enjoyed what you had
to say, and more than that, how you presented it.
Too cool!

Here is my blog - work office

Anonymous said...

Today, I went to the beachfront with my kids. I found a sea shell and gave it
to my 4 year old daughter and said "You can hear the ocean if you put this to your ear."
She put the shell to her ear and screamed.
There was a hermit crab inside and it pinched her ear. She never
wants to go back! LoL I know this is totally off topic but I had
to tell someone!

Also visit my homepage ... raspberry ketones

Anonymous said...

Everything is very open with a really clear explanation of the challenges.
It was truly informative. Your site is very useful.
Many thanks for sharing!

Feel free to surf to my site :: moringa plant

Anonymous said...

Wow, superb weblog format! How lengthy have you been blogging for?
you made blogging glance easy. The overall look of your web site is
wonderful, as well as the content material!

Review my homepage; green coffee side effects

Anonymous said...

Today, I went to the beach with my children.
I found a sea shell and gave it to my 4 year old daughter and
said "You can hear the ocean if you put this to your ear." She placed the shell to her ear and screamed.
There was a hermit crab inside and it pinched her ear.
She never wants to go back! LoL I know this is entirely
off topic but I had to tell someone!

My blog post ... raspberry ketones

Anonymous said...

Hello there! I could have sworn I've visited this web site before but after browsing through some of the articles I realized it's new to me.

Anyhow, I'm certainly pleased I found it and I'll be book-marking it and checking back often!


Here is my site ... teeth become

Anonymous said...

Hi there I am so happy I found your blog, I really found you by accident, while I
was researching on Bing for something else, Anyhow I
am here now and would just like to say thank you for
a remarkable post and a all round interesting blog (I also love the theme/design), I don't have time to look over it all at the minute but I have saved it and also added in your RSS feeds, so when I have time I will be back to read a lot more, Please do keep up the great work.

my site - whitening devisce