The success of any personal encounter begins the second someone lays eyes on you ... often long before either of you speaks. A professional image - appearance and behaviour - helps start the experience in the right vein since people decide 10 things about you within 10 seconds of seeing you.
Opening Presentation – Karenlee Knott
Karenlee opened the event with an update and the first preview of the Enterprising Women Dorset website.
Guest Speaker Presentation – Liz Prest
Liz is committed to enabling both companies and individuals to maximise their potential by coaching non-verbal communication skills to both management and employees. She believes in advising and facilitating clients in feeling good about themselves, increasing their personal impact and having confidence in their chosen lifestyle or career. Her corporate clients vary from well known financial and accountancy firms, the police service, to high profile service industries. Amongst her many personal clients is an actress who needed to look good for auditions, a civil servant requiring help for a top level interview and a convalescent who, whilst recovering from major surgery needed confidence boosting.
Working with the media has led to Liz acting as regular contributor to a cable TV network, as well as local BBC and ITV interviews, she has appeared on national breakfast time and day time programmes. Radio interviews have been with BBC Bristol and BBC Radio Solent.
Liz divides her time between private consultations, presentations, corporate workshops and seminars as well as being Director of Training for First Impressions. She is a fellow of the Federation ofImage Consultants having passed the joint City and Guilds/TFIC award in Image Consultancy. She is also a member of TheFashion Group International and The Costume Society.
Feedback Consolidation
Feedback was once again very positive, Liz's presentation was seen as being relevant to most people and the only complaint was that there wasn't time for more! Opinions on the website preview were all good people were impressed with both the content and the design concluding that it was eye catching with lots of potential.Future topic suggestions included; marketing/promotion, initial impressions via telephone/e-mail, making first contact, something more technical, public speaking, employment law, social networking on the web, H.R., health and safety, performance management and time management.
