This is Tuesday, so this post is on positive personal impact.
Knowing and using the rules of basic business etiquette is one of the keys to positive personal impact. Paying attention to -- “attending” as I call it – to the people with whom you meet in the course of your business day, is an important, but often overlooked part of business etiquette.
Last Friday, I had the opportunity to meet Alex Mandossian. Alex is well known information marketing entrepreneur, and a blogger. You can find his blog at www.AlexMandossian.com. I was attending a seminar he was conducting on how to use teleseminars to enhance my coaching and speaking business.
Virtual book tours are one of the techniques that Alex uses and teaches to help people like me reach a wider audience. During one of the breaks, I approached Alex with a copy of on of my books, 4 Secrets of High Performing Organizations. I told him that I’d like to do a virtual book tour with him.
Even though he was in the middle of conducting a seminar for about 200 people and had a lot of things on his mind, Alex stopped, looked me in the eye, thanked me for the book and said “I’d love to, please give the book to one of my assistants”. Then he asked if I would sign the book for him.
Even though there were several other people waiting to speak to him, Alex took the time to engage me in a brief conversation about who I am, and why I was attending his seminar. He complimented me on my book, and was very complimentary of the fact that I have written five others. As we spoke, he looked me directly in the eye. His body language made it very clear that he was listening to everything I was saying. And, he asked me to sign my book for him -- the sweetest words to any author's ears.
Alex Mandossian has positive personal impact. One reason is that he “attends” to the person with whom he is having a conversation. Even though there were a thousand distractions as we spoke, I had the feeling that he was completely focused on me and what I was saying. I noticed this and appreciated it.
The common sense point here is simple. One way to make a positive personal impact is to focus your attention completely on the person with whom you are speaking. Block out distractions. “Attend” to that one person. “Attending” is a powerful way to show that you are present and involved with another person – and that is an important, but often overlooked part of business etiquette. Alex Mandossian knows this – and he practices it. That’s one of the reasons he had powerful personal impact.
That’s it for today. Thanks for reading. Log on to my website www.BudBilanich.com for more common sense. Check out my other blog: www.CommonSenseGuy.com for common sense advice on leading people and running a small business.
I’ll see you around the web, and at Alex’s Lemonade Stand.
Bud
PS: Speaking of Alex’s Lemonade Stand – my fundraising page is still open. Please go to www.FirstGiving.com.TheCommonSenseGuy to read Alex’s inspiring story and to donate if you can.
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