169: Six Ways to Recover From a Bad First Impression, with John Corcoran
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2014
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
John Corcoran
If you make a bad first impression, all is not lost. John Corcoran and I detail six things you can do when the first impression doesn’t land.
Key Points
1. Decide Whether or Not to Take Action
2. Take Swift Action and Apologize Immediately
3. Admit Your Mistake, but Don’t Dwell on It
4. Apologize Later, Even If Time Has Passed
5. Pivot
6. Be Consistent Over Time
John appeared previously on two other episodes:
- How to Create Your Personal Networking Plan (episode 106)
- The Practical Pursuit of Work-Life Balance (episode 123)
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| 0:00.0 | Six ways to recover from a bad first impression with my friend John Corcoran. |
| 0:05.0 | This is Coaching for Leaders episode 169. |
| 0:08.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential. |
| 0:13.4 | Greetings from Orange County, California. |
| 0:20.4 | This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host Dave Stahoviac. This is a weekly coaching show to help us all be better leaders through |
| 0:29.2 | improve communication, human relations, and personal leadership. |
| 0:34.4 | And if you're a regular listener, you may be wondering, |
| 0:37.3 | well, hey, isn't this supposed to be the Q&A show here |
| 0:40.1 | at the beginning of the month? |
| 0:41.4 | Yes, it is.. Unfortunately we went through a huge |
| 0:45.6 | spate of sickness in our family over the last week and while everyone is now |
| 0:51.0 | feeling better it became logistically undoable for Bonnie and I to get |
| 0:56.3 | together in the studio to record the Q&A show. |
| 0:59.1 | We have all the questions ready to go. |
| 1:00.4 | A bunch of you have sent them in and we're actually full on questions. |
| 1:03.6 | So that show is going to air next week with episode 170. |
| 1:07.1 | Apologize for the delay on that, but it is coming next week. |
| 1:10.2 | And so I am moving this show up that was going to be episode 170 to this week, which is a interview I've previously recorded with my pal John Corcoran. |
| 1:20.0 | This is John's third appearance on the show and we're airing this as a joint episode on this show and also on his show, Smart Business Revolution. |
| 1:29.0 | And if you haven't heard John on the show before, he is an attorney here in California and he's also a |
| 1:34.0 | former staffer in the Clinton White House. He writes about business networking and |
| 1:38.8 | social skills for a blog called The Art of Manliness, so we're going to be talking about an article he wrote recently on that. |
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