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Your Professional Image. Ken Stegall & Charlotte Phillips. Hygiene: is daily cleaning and grooming. Bathing (or showering) is essential! Using Deodorant Brushing Teeth Mouthwash Groom your hair Haircuts Nails clean and groomed. Personal Grooming. Appropriate clothes Shoes Make-up.
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Your Professional Image Ken Stegall & Charlotte Phillips
Hygiene: is daily cleaning and grooming • Bathing (or showering) is essential! • Using Deodorant • Brushing Teeth • Mouthwash • Groom your hair • Haircuts • Nails clean and groomed
Personal Grooming • Appropriate clothes • Shoes • Make-up
Physical Presentation • Good Posture • Proximity (personal space)
When speaking • Use appropriate tone • Use appropriate rate • Speak clearly with good grammar
When answering a work phone: • Identify location • Identify yourself • Offer help
Taking a message • Answer the 5 W’s • (who, what, when, where, why) • Is it urgent!? • Get the return number
P.E.P. • Pause • Eye Contact • Positive Eye statement
S.O.L.A.R. • Square your shoulders to the speaker • Open your posture • Lean slightly toward the speaker • Affect: Your emotions should be appropriate for the situation. • Restatement: Paraphrase or restate for clarification.
What not to say • Gossip • Insults • Complaints/Criticism
Summary • Your professional image matters • Begin with good hygiene • Be neat and clean • Use good posture and be aware of personal space • Speak Clearly and Listen carefully