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How to Write Your Elevator Speech that Rocks!
Within the first three seconds of meeting someone, you have made
a first impression. People notice the way you are dressed, how you
carry yourself, the company you keep, whether or not you are neat,
your accessories, your delivery, how you make them feel, whether
you have common surface denominators, and more. People have a
lot to remember in life and they don’t remember what you’d like
them to. So they store first impressions in their mind for simplicity’s
sake. It is virtually impossible to reverse first impressions. They are
human nature.
In those first three seconds someone will decide if you are on a
comparable professional or social level and draw a judgment as to
whether or not they want to further get to know you. If you appear to
be of the same or higher status, you are admired and cultivated for
further interactions. If you appear to be of a lower status, you are
tolerated but not targeted to go anywhere from there.
How to Write Your Elevator Speech that Rocks:
1. Write down a list of all of your accomplishments. Think of them
in terms of how they helped people solve problems - how you
eased a company's pain. Remember accomplishments are not
skills. You are not able to use Excel software. You manage account
incomes and expenses for to show profitability.
2. Answer the following question: “What is the overall category of
transferable skills that encompasses my accomplishments?”
Transferable skills fall into three categories: communications
(writing, graphic design, photography, art), organization of
information (accounting, banking, data entry,) fixing or building
things (architect, interior designer, mechanic, information systems
support), etc.
3. Imagine yourself taking one giant step up the ladder and
looking down on this from a higher vantage point - how can you
solve a company's pain. After reviewing the above list, write down
what overall problem you can solve for people in business. How do
you solve pain for a company. Give just enough information that will
beg the question, how do you do that? Is it that you take the
headache out of computer systems so that businesses can use
their systems to make more money? (information systems support).
Do you design interior space that draws people to want to hang out
there? (interior designer). Do you make a company’s employees
more productive? (corporate trainer).
4. Write one or two sentences that sum up your response to
question #3 for you "elevator speech." The opening line of your
speech should be how you answered item #3. Follow it with what
you would say if someone were to ask you, “How do you do that?”
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stay-at-home mother with four children to divorce, poverty and then
on to become a newspaper reporter, trade association executive
director, public relations consultant, and foundation president and
CEO. View Mary Lee’s free career tips, worksheets and Blog on her
website at www.startingovernow.com. Contact Mary Lee at
info@startingovernow.com.
Within the first three seconds of meeting someone, you have made
a first impression. People notice the way you are dressed, how you
carry yourself, the company you keep, whether or not you are neat,
your accessories, your delivery, how you make them feel, whether
you have common surface denominators, and more. People have a
lot to remember in life and they don’t remember what you’d like
them to. So they store first impressions in their mind for simplicity’s
sake. It is virtually impossible to reverse first impressions. They are
human nature.
In those first three seconds someone will decide if you are on a
comparable professional or social level and draw a judgment as to
whether or not they want to further get to know you. If you appear to
be of the same or higher status, you are admired and cultivated for
further interactions. If you appear to be of a lower status, you are
tolerated but not targeted to go anywhere from there.
How to Write Your Elevator Speech that Rocks:
1. Write down a list of all of your accomplishments. Think of them
in terms of how they helped people solve problems - how you
eased a company's pain. Remember accomplishments are not
skills. You are not able to use Excel software. You manage account
incomes and expenses for to show profitability.
2. Answer the following question: “What is the overall category of
transferable skills that encompasses my accomplishments?”
Transferable skills fall into three categories: communications
(writing, graphic design, photography, art), organization of
information (accounting, banking, data entry,) fixing or building
things (architect, interior designer, mechanic, information systems
support), etc.
3. Imagine yourself taking one giant step up the ladder and
looking down on this from a higher vantage point - how can you
solve a company's pain. After reviewing the above list, write down
what overall problem you can solve for people in business. How do
you solve pain for a company. Give just enough information that will
beg the question, how do you do that? Is it that you take the
headache out of computer systems so that businesses can use
their systems to make more money? (information systems support).
Do you design interior space that draws people to want to hang out
there? (interior designer). Do you make a company’s employees
more productive? (corporate trainer).
4. Write one or two sentences that sum up your response to
question #3 for you "elevator speech." The opening line of your
speech should be how you answered item #3. Follow it with what
you would say if someone were to ask you, “How do you do that?”
Get Mary Lee’s new FREE e-book “Make Your Wheel of Fortune
Spin on Balance" by clicking here.
Follow Mary Lee's career tips on Twitter.com at StartingOverNow.
For the FREE Worksheets: “Does Your Resume Look Weathered?”
and “Six Ways to Know if This is the Right Company for Me” go to:
http://www.startingovernow.com/Articles-and-Tip-Sheets.html
Mary Lee Gannon is a career advice expert who went from being a
stay-at-home mother with four children to divorce, poverty and then
on to become a newspaper reporter, trade association executive
director, public relations consultant, and foundation president and
CEO. View Mary Lee’s free career tips, worksheets and Blog on her
website at www.startingovernow.com. Contact Mary Lee at
info@startingovernow.com.
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people and organizations Executive Leadership Coach Mary Lee has
helped. Learn how to clarify direction, create strategy, upgrade skills,
optimize your environment and wipe out fear and doubt. Make it fun =
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Mary Lee’s strategies from her book “Starting Over” helped her in her
own transformation from stay-at-home mother with four children living
a country club life to the reality of a difficult marriage, divorce, poverty,
welfare and then on to president and CEO. Eliminate self doubt, under-
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