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Why managing impressions is critical (and doesn’t make you inauthentic)
Effective impressions management not only requires you to be self-aware but also to change how you communicate.
For example, compensation and promotion decisions generally involve subjective judgments. This means you want to use your communication techniques in a way that emphasize the traits needed to reach your objective. If decisiveness is called for, you want to present your decisive characteristics.
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