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Pancho1188
03-23-2005, 09:57 PM
Wouldn't you like to have someone monitor your interactions with people and give you feedback on what they saw
happening from an objective third party? I wish you could just talk to someone and then ask them right afterwards
what they thought of you during that conversation. The only time you ever get feedback like that is during a mock
interview for a job.
Has anyone ever done this? In other words, actually had a conversation with someone and
had someone objectively evaluate how it went? I think that would be a great way to improve yourself, but the
opportunity to do this just isn't there, in my opinion. Any thoughts?
DumLuc
03-23-2005, 10:17 PM
Pancho, Surfs Up posted this
three days ago:
http://pherolibrary.com/forum/images/icons/icon12.gif Now you positively gotta check
this one out
there is a behavioral consulting company in New York City called First Impressions. Among their
services they have a dating simulation. A psychologist meets with you in a public area, a restaurant or something,
and you have a pretend date for two or three hours. Then the psychologist prepares you a detailed report of your
communication styles, strengths, weaknesses and which specific behaviors, attitudes, personal approaches are
hindering the way other potential (mates, girl/boyfriends, hookups, business associates, and so on) will perceive
you IN SPITE OF how you believe you are perceived. I read their book where they detail the long list of behaviors we
have that we think are sending positive or neutral signals that are in fact turning people off, shutting down
communication, running the interaction into the ground.... I guess the take home message is that the great majority
of us don't have high quality feedback that will let us fine tune our presentation, and that many of us suffer life
long "social underachievement" as a direct result.... and that's a horrifying thought...
here ya go
:
http://www.firstimpressionsconsulti...ges/dating.h
tml (http://www.firstimpressionsconsulti...ges/dating.html)
Hmmm, somebody's found a way to make a buck off of this problem.
a.k.a.
03-24-2005, 07:48 AM
Well, there’s no such thing as an
objective observer; so results depend mostly on the person observing you.
I’ve had the business equivalent of
this (mostly to evaluate how I deal with potentially troublesome individuals) and it was very helpful.
This
is geared more towards public speaking, but Toast Masters is also very good. You get a diversity of opinions on the
same speech.
Pancho1188
03-24-2005, 03:44 PM
Thanks for showing that post!
I'm not about to drop $$$ on that, though...
Well, there’s no such thing as an objective
observer; so results depend mostly on the person observing you.
By objective, I mean impartial. In other
words, they don't need to stroke your ego and don't worry about hurting your feelings. They have no personal
stake except to help.
I don't get why people don't do this type of thing. Why wouldn't people want to
know how they come off so they can improve if they want to? We do it in the business world all of the time with
interviews, but we never do it for our personal relationships. I'd love for once to have someone tell me what they
thought of my mannerisms and actions in contrast to who I really am.
-Why won't you go out with me? Is it
because I have a tissue up my nose?
--You're getting warm!
--- Seinfeld
The only time I ever get
feedback is from a drunk person who's leaving or seeing me off...then they tell me how great I am. :lol:
Flash1
03-24-2005, 04:19 PM
Hey you guys know of anywhere on
the west coast?
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