YOUR KEYS TO A GREAT FIRST IMPRESSION, and to avoiding disastrous misstatements and blunders. First, get all your systems focused on your purpose and intended outcome for your meeting. Second, have a wide arsenal of opening questions that will provide control of conversation. Third, listen with total focus and interest to each response. It's impossible to blunder while you are listening.

GREAT FIRST IMPRESSIONS are about other person. It's when individual you've met realizes that he or she is your primary focus, that they will never forget you.

BUT LETS TALK ABOUT YOU... Does your cocktail party repartee come across as sophisticated conversation, or a confused meandering string of meaningless babble? Whether you like it or not, your conversation as well as your language skills tell world about your background, even your intelligence.

In a study which polled top executives in fifty-eight of America's largest companies, every single executive named personal communications skills as major factor in their advancement

You may feel you are stuck with your current education or intrinsic intelligence. While that may be partially true, you are not stuck with your current verbal and conversation skills.

Remember - The race is not to swift, but to verbal - spellbinding orator - silver-tongued seducer. You learn skills in a matter of weeks, sometimes days. It's largely a matter of making that decision and commitment. Call it a Masters in Verbology.