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Saturday 17 October 2015

What goes wrong with your corporate grooming? Part II




Presentations, Presenting 

-While you stand aside with your fellow presenters and one of you delivers the presentation, you are still a part of the team who is meant to represent the topic or company assigned. While speaking amongst one another, avoid making the conversation look so casual that the audience feels to be taken for granted. Convey the points to one another quickly, respond back briefly, and stand back at your position. Represent the show for what it is worth.

- How about dressing up in uniform attire as presenters in a high profile presentation? A step ahead to demonstrate the consistency you maintain as a concrete team, the esteem you hold for the panel and your unquestionable dedication & pride towards the subject you are going to present. White Safari suits in entirety, Blazers with an orange tie, standing in shirts shading from a color to another one person at a time, whatever fits the bill. 

Representing

-It is true that one must bow forward and offer one’s visiting cards with both hands.  To the ones who say this as a hard and fast rule, dedicate a laugh to the fellow who was clumsy while speaking to you and ended up with this visiting card etiquette. Inconsistent drama. 

The rationale behind this etiquette is that you actually represent your organization you belong to while you speak to anyone else and offer something such as a business card that has your organization’s name on it. What you speak, how you interact and how you present something clearly has your organization’s reputation and integrity at stake.  Henceforth, see yourself as your organization representative; present yourself consistently in that mindset. Offer anything from a brochure to a report file with both hands, while keeping those shoulders bent forward just to 10 degrees in humility. You will not earn anything bending low like a judo student!

-The Entrance of the institute is the first impression. Standing near the gate cracking crass jokes on the days the important clients are to be invited, defeats the purpose of the people inside desperately trying to keep those clients impressed. 

Behavioral traits of a Post Graduate 

-An unspoken criterion on differentiating a post-graduate and a graduate is how he moves furniture across. A professional would lift up the furniture or take assistance for the same to do the task with minimal noise, while a graduate would just drag it screeching across the floor.  Slide in your chairs after leaving the place. 

- Wipe any object such as stationery or phone before returning it to a colleague

- Standing or behaving stiff in a formal environment does not equals to a professional behavior.
-Use an appropriate language mix as per the situation in order to push your points formally, and to 
be well understood. Keep the vocabulary level consistent, and grammar taken in first priority.

- The interpersonal skills must be polished to an extent that a client could reliably speak his heart out against the organization to the manager, while the manager continues to represent the interests of the organization. Both the parties stay willful listeners.

Little things that you unconsciously do, are actually the breeding grounds of the senior managers towards judging the standards and position you righteously belong to, or to be elevated to. Happy realization.

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