Projecting a Positive Professional Image

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Detailed Overview/Outline

Communicate a winning professional image in the way you look, act and present yourself!

Discover a self-image that feels right to you—and looks great to clients, colleagues, peers and superiors. This seminar is both “diagnostic” and “prescriptive.” It helps you assess your image and then provides specific suggestions for enhancing it—with expert coaching—to let you measure your progress!

HOW YOU WILL BENEFIT:

• Look, act and dress for your current position and where you hope to be
• Polish your professional speech
• Be aware of corporate protocol and courtesy
• Master social etiquette
• Develop a positive mental attitude

WHAT YOU WILL COVER:

• The importance of image to your professional success
• Your self-image and your external image
• How your professional image influences your performance and the way others respond to you
• The key elements of image
• Nonverbal communication
• Other factors affecting your image
• Putting it all together—your total executive image

Who Should Attend
This seminar is an invaluable experience for upwardly mobile executives, professionals and salespeople who want to project a positive professional image for every occasion.

Extras from AMA

See yourself as others see you—you will be recorded and receive feedback and helpful recommendations.

Extended Description

Learning Objectives

• Define Professional Image and Understand Its Importance in a Competitive, Global Economy
• Apply Principles of Adult Learning in Professional, Interpersonal Communications
• Assess Self-Image, Self-Esteem and Attitude to Develop a Personal Mission Statement
• Practice Visual, Vocal and Verbal Communication Skills to Deliver Powerful Business Presentations
• Critique Presentation Skills to Facilitate Business Meetings with Style and Substance
• Review and Practice Business Etiquette Tools to Project Competence, Confidence and Credibility
• Evaluate Professional Effectiveness and Incorporate Courtesies and Manners to Promote Professional Presence and Project a Positive Professional Image

Professional Presence—"What’s in It for Me?"

• Define Positive Professional Image
• Implement Adult/Accelerated Learning Concepts
• Present Yourself with Confidence
• Identify Personal Goals and Objectives

Inspection Toolkit—"Who Am I? How Do I See Myself?"

• Define and Assess Self-Image
• Define and Assess Self-Esteem
• Discuss and Demonstrate the Power of Attitude
• Evaluate Personal Power

Nonverbal Toolkit—The Silent Shout: "How They See and Hear Me"

• Define and Analyze the Four Elements of Believable Communication
• Illustrate and Implement Six Principles of Professional Appearance
• Demonstrate Positive and Negative Body Language and Identify Effective Nonverbal Interaction Tools
• Practice Powerful Vocal Skills That Will Improve Business Interactions as Well as More Formal Business Presentations

Verbal Toolkit—Word Power: "How I Say It"

• Choose Words That Help; Lose Words That Hurt
• Apply Five Tools for Powerful Business Presentations
• Develop and Deliver a Persuasive Business Presentation
• Design and Use a Checklist for Productive Business Meetings

Validity Toolkit—Presence: "What They Think"

• Identify Your Personal Behavioral Style to Interact with Diverse Styles
• Examine Your Personal Values to Increase Professional Effectiveness
• Define the Role of Business Entertaining as a Professional Tool in a Global Market
• Review Business Etiquette and Incorporate Courtesies and Manners to Promote Professional Presence and Project a Positive Professional Image

2 days/1.2 CEUs

Sponsor Background:
The American Management Association was founded in 1923. They have built a content control check into every one of their professional seminars. Plus a series of checks and balances to ensure that the content of every AMA seminar is precisely targeted to:

• provide comprehensive, hands-on training that is of practical use when you return to the job
• focus on need-to-know specifics, relevant to the demands of global business today
• offer the expertise and personalized attention of top-ranking instructors
• facilitate your career development and business savvy

Whether you're looking for a solid foundation of business fundamentals or strategies to help you seize growth opportunities for your company, AMA offers expert instruction to help you:

• manage your priorities effectively
• cultivate more productive working relationships
• increase your on-the-job value
• align your skills with marketplace demands
• bring out the best in people, processes and yourself

Cancellation and Refund Policy

If you cannot attend a seminar you may contact AMA in advance to transfer to a future session, or can send someone to take your place. If you need to cancel your attendance, AMA will give you a complete refund if you cancel more than three weeks before your seminar begins. To cancel, simply call. If you cancel with less than three weeks' notice, you will be liable for the entire seminar fee, however you may request a courtesy transfer to use at any future AMA seminar of equal or lesser value. The courtesy transfer must be used within one year of the date of your originally scheduled seminar. In fairness to all attendees, if you do not attend a seminar session for which you are confirmed, and do not cancel with a minimum of three weeks’ notice as described above, you will be charged the entire seminar fee.

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