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| Evangelia D. Souris, your guide to an optimum image. |
The Value of Image Training
Participants will transcend to the next level of image development, enhancement, delivery and actualization. Their unique strengths will be accentuated and they will gain confidence, conviction, and enthusiasm for their own natural image. They will further learn how to use their image to advance and enhance their careers, realize authentic presence, radiate with style and refinement.
The Method
Optimum customizes the workshop, seminar and keynote speech to fit your needs by providing pre-workshop seminar assignments, action plans and choice of seminar emphasis and delivery.
Pre work assignments: Participants will fill out pre-work questionnaires and self-assessments and enter the seminar knowing their strengths and weaknesses. Pre-work assignments can be customized for your specific image concerns.
Action Plan: A personalized action plan will help each participant continue improvement in a results-oriented fashion.
Real life Image challenges: Suggestions are provided on how to deal effectively with the Image related needs of the participants.
You Choose the Seminar Emphasis: You decide, based on desired outcomes, how much time to spend on each topic. The instructor can discuss the benefits and risks of using the latest presentation technology. You decide which media format (overheads, laptop, etc.) to focus on and how much time to spend on it.
Finally: We will identify participants’ needs and seminar outcomes. What they need to continue, start, or stop doing when managing their Image. Based on the outcomes desired, you and Optimum choose the exercises and the activities of the workshop or seminar. You will choose date, time, and place. Optimum will give you a logistics and equipment checklist.
Follow-up: Optimum shares with you what your participants need to continue, or stop doing to support Image enhancement and management. A one-day seminar follow-up is scheduled in six months.
Length: Seminars and workshops are conducted in full or half day sessions.
The Value of Image TrainingParticipants will transcend to the next level of image development, enhancement, delivery and actualization. Their unique strengths will be accentuated and they will gain confidence, conviction, and enthusiasm for their own natural image. They will further learn how to use their image to advance and enhance their careers, realize authentic presence, radiate with style and refinement.
The Method
OPTIMUM customizes the workshop, seminar and keynote speech to fit your needs by providing pre-workshop seminar assignments, action plans and choice of seminar emphasis and delivery.
Pre work assignments: Participants will fill out pre-work questionnaires and self-assessments and enter the seminar knowing their strengths and weaknesses. Pre-work assignments can be customized for your specific image concerns.
Action Plan: A personalized action plan will help each participant continue improvement in a results-oriented fashion.
Real life image challenges: Suggestions are provided on how to deal effectively with the Image related needs of the participants.
You Choose the Seminar Emphasis: You decide, based on desired outcomes, how much time to spend on each topic. The instructor can discuss the benefits and risks of using the latest presentation technology. You decide which media format (overheads, laptop, etc.) to focus on and how much time to spend on it.
Finally: We will identify participants’ needs and seminar outcomes. What they need to continue, start, or stop doing when managing their image. Based on the outcomes desired, you and OPTIMUM choose the exercises and the activities of the workshop or seminar. You will choose date, time, and place. OPTIMUM will give you a logistics and equipment checklist.
Follow-up: OPTIMUM shares with you what your participants need to continue, or stop doing to support Image enhancement and management. A one-day seminar follow-up is scheduled in six months.
Length: Seminars and workshops are conducted in full or half day sessions.
Career Management Series
During this series of workshops participants will learn to make the best first impression within the first seven to thirty seconds of meeting a potential employer. Dynamic interactive and research based seminars that go beyond the traditional dress for success approach. Perfect for those who are new to the job market (recently unemployed, contemplating a career change, recent college graduate) or are looking for a better job. The series is broken-out into the following workshops:
- Dressed to be hired
- Interviewing for success
- Career Challenges
- Your Résumé’s Image
- Selling your self
- Interviewing and negotiating tactics
Nonverbal Communication Seminar
Nonverbal communication refers to the unspoken messages people declare, and can amount to more than 65 percent of the total message sent. Movement of the body, hands, face, establish body language. Business, social, personal, professional environments are copious with examples of nonverbal communication where feelings of preeminence, distress, anxiety, and subservience are more than often expressed.
The value to the audience of "nonverbal communication" is a better comprehension of the cues that one conveys and interprets when interacting in any environment. This value can best be measured by the manner that one’s Image has improved, both in conveyance and perception.
Use Your Image and Make the Sale Seminar
Impressions are made within seven to thirty seconds of a first encounter with a potential client. Through verbal and non-verbal image training participants will learn how to better make a sale.
Business, Social Etiquette and Manners Series
The importance of Etiquette and manners, both in social and business settings has mass applications and ramifications to children, teens, adults in all aspects of their lives. Not knowing or even worse knowing all the rules of etiquette and not applying them in the correct manner can have detrimental effects to one’s image. Bad manners can be deadly to one’s reputation and is not good business.
The value to the audience of Etiquette and Protocol would be measured by how comfortably they understand and use rules for behavior in cultivated society, professional or official life. Further value would be achieved when the audience learns that there is a great difference between being a person of manners, following the rules of etiquette and the manner in which one communicates with one another. The balance is achieved by innate and practical grace. The greatest value of incorporating Etiquette and Protocol. Included in this series are the following workshops:
- Effective networking at a business or social function
- Office etiquette
- Hosting a business meal at a restaurant and residence
- Travel protocol and international etiquette
- Proprietary communication and etiquette (Internet, telephone, portable devices, letters, in person)
- Propriety and sensitivity during life’s challenges
- Children’s etiquette
- Young adults etiquette
Makeover Series
The audience of “Makeovers for Men and Women” (held separately for each gender) will learn the value of proper grooming, as well as, selection of clothing for quality and style, when conveying an impression of competence. This applies to becoming hairstyles, eyeglasses, cosmetics and makeup. The measure of applying this value can best be illustrated by enabling anyone to achieve unequivocal and unique beauty.
Navigating and Ensuring Your Image Series
Everyone has an image. Their own trademark. The audience of "Winning Image" and "Ensuring Image Control" will learn the value of their own brand and how to cultivate it in their professional and personal lives in order to achieve optimal results in generating an authentic presence. image is the one thing that can be controlled in this competitive world. The value of achieving one’s optimum Image can be measured by how to apply the "know-how" to a chosen wardrobe. This series includes these workshops:
- Ensuring image control
- Winning image
Wardrobe and Affluence Series
An Affluent Image can be achieved by self-development and by understanding the value of "Investment Dressing." The principles of an Affluent Image and Investment Dressing hold true for men and women, of all ages, in all professions and all facets of life. The value of achieving such images can be measured by instructing the audience of the aforementioned topics, how to distinguish genuinely classic designs, extraordinary tailoring, and ageless style. This series includes these workshops:
- Investment dressing
- Affluent Image
Figure Challenges Series
The audience of "Figure Challenges" will receive the value of understanding the importance of creating the illusion of harmonious proportions by understating one’s imperfections and by embellishing inherent natural assets. Very few of us are lucky to have perfect bodies and that is why symmetrical dressing is important in creating a successful Image. The value of this achievement can be measured by learning how to use line, color, texture and color when creating the illusion of harmonious dimensions.
Your Optimal Image and Cancer: Its Power, Its Magic
Quality of life, self-image and appearance are seriously compromised and affected while undergoing cancer treatment. Participants will learn how to manage the effects of treatment on their appearance, with not just a wig and makeup. They will learn that there are other coping mechanisms for one’s Image. This interactive workshop will provide participants with tools, strategies and suggestions to put you in restored control of your current challenges.
The value to the audience would be measured by their ability of understanding what having cancer means to their Inner and Outer Image and the realization that this meaning is not static. They will learn how to balance these changes with innate and practical grace by sanctioning their new Image.