well your career what I’m about to say
will be useful to everybody listening so
if you want the better your lives I
suggest you listen up
Amit reflects how confident and
comfortable you were or aren’t doing
your job in turn this determines how
trustworthy competent and reliable
people think you are but before I start
let me clarify some things your image
isn’t something purely physical its
composed of both physical and mental
attributes but never one or the other
alone second everybody has their own
image or their interpretation of you
when others describe you don’t talk
about your physical appearance they talk
about their made-up perceptions of you
particularly from Albany from all the
interactions they’ve had with you
this fellip their own image of you even
if you’ve never even met the individual
before they all have heard about you
informally and hear information they
receive the image they receive of you
determines how they decide to treat you
determines how much respect your speed
you receive from that person that’s why
image like reputation precedes you now
having said that let me move on to the
point or purpose of image why am i
making it sound like such a big deal
well because it is you see we all aim to
climb the hierarchy of success with
whatever we’re doing whatever that is
now we all aim for promotions
recognition success and even roles
within with more impressive titles and
higher salaries and one of the crucial
determining factors on whether we get
those things are not is our image for
example some of you might have been in a
situation where there was an opportunity
for a job promotion at your workplace
and you said you set a goal to gain that
promotion you might be working hard you
stick to deadlines you go above and
beyond the call of duty but in the end
you’re less competent coworker earns
that promotion when you the more
competent alternative gets overlooked
what could that be well then dividual
might have paid attention to one
fundamentally important factor and yes
you guessed them they promoted their
image to the right people they made sure
their image that their work didn’t go
unnoticed now if you listen to these
three important steps in how to promote
your image to the right people and how
to let’s say let’s say how to work on
your image to other people so rule
number one dress them press this is the
first thing people see when they look at
you
so it’s arguably the most important
factor when when judging someone on
their image rule number two your voice
there are two different aspects of voice
that you can work on there is tone and
then there’s volume volume is easy you
just have to speak up when you’re spoken
to and the tip would be to open your
mouth to let the sounds come out more
now second part is a bit more it’s a bit
harder to focus on tone there are three
different voice two analogies that I’m
going to speak about let me start by
asking how was your day
so when you say how was an ending at a
high or high your day it means that your
vocal cords are tense and that you’re
not really relaxed the other tonality
I’m going to be speaking about is
holding report this is usually used in
conversations with your friends for
example when you ask your friend hey how
was your day it’s a monotone voice
usually you’re not asking for authority
and you’re not tense
the final tonality is called breaking
rapport and it’s used by someone like
your boss when they ask hey how was your
day
when you speak like this it shows that
in this interaction you’re the person
who needs to be impressed rather than
the person that needs them press this
can make people listen more attentively
when you speak and does and thus also
means that you have more desirable
traits than they do depending on
situation you need to keep yourself
between the second and the third
tonality although it’s a small change in
the way you speak it can definitely
speak volumes
for the type of person you are and this
therefore shapes people’s image of you
now before I finish off and conclude my
talk let me add this first of all I hope
you learned something new not only that
I hope you learned something new but
actually take what you’ve learned today
and actually apply it to your everyday
lives because it will without a doubt
increase your quality of life not only
by increasing the amount of respect you
receive or but by also having people
listen more attentively to one you speak
like in close my talk
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