Leadership skills | You have seconds to make a good impression - here's how...

In the vast majority of professions, communication is absolutely essential. Without the ability to accurately communicate, we’d not only drown in a professional environment but as a species.

Communication forms the basis of connection, trust and the ability to convince others to invest in your abilities.

And whilst it’s possible to win others round in the long-term, the ability to attract people largely stems from your first interaction, and actually, from around the first seven seconds. Those seven seconds have the ability to define your entire relationship with the people you meet and knowing how to master them may propel your career, help you to get jobs, build success and ensure your own stability.

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Within one-tenth of a second we’ve already started to formulate an opinion of someone; your first split-second analysis processes information about the person’s face, which we filter through our own experiences, biases and preferences to discover if we approve – according to research conducted in a 2006 study published in Psychological Science.