How to Make a Good Impression in 90 Seconds or Less

Some say that we have 90 seconds to make a good impression on someone. So how can you take this to your advantage?

Be Open

Closed body language such as crossed arms or turning your body away from the person you’re talking to may indicate frustration, impatience and nervousness. These signals could obviously leave a bad impression.

Synchronise

Ask the Right Questions

This in mind, it’s better to ask open questions. These tend to encourage your conversational partner to feel important and do what they like best- talk about themselves. To do this, simply begin questions with words like ‘Who’, ‘Where’, ‘What’, ‘How’ and ‘Why’. Rather than saying “Do you come here often?” for example, you could say ‘How come you decided to come here?”

Listen Carefully

Too often people prioritise processing what want to say next over what their conversational partner has said. This of course leaves a bad impression as the other person may feel frustrated and overlooked for not being taken into account.

For example, if someone says. “I love living in London but my partner got a promotion and now we may go to Hong Kong”, you could say, “Wow, that seems like a stressful decision to make. How are you going to decide where to live?”

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