Identity Creation and Impression Management (Virtual Course)

Open enrolment and in-house options available

Your identity is a malleable construct. Moving between roles, teams and organisations provides opportunities to (re)invent who you are and how you are seen by others. When working online, these challenges are even more pronounced, particularly if you are operating in a sensitive or client-facing role.

Knowing how to create an identity and manage what others think of you is a vital skill, regardless of your role or responsibilities. If you are in, or aspire to be in, a role where others look to you for leadership, expertise, guidance or support, crafting how you come across matters. Similarly, if you need to build an identity to support elicitation, intelligence gathering or target development, managing what others think can make all the difference between mission success and failure.

This one day course will provide detailed guidance on how to build and maintain an identity, manage the impressions of others, and what to do if you find yourself managing the wrong impression.

There are currently no dates planned for this course. Register your interest for future dates or enquire about in-house options.

Course Outline

  • Welcome and check in
  • Identity creation and exploration: who are we really?
  • Forming identities in theory and practice
  • Identity assessment
  • Overlap of identity, credibility and authenticity
  • Welcome and check in
  • Impression management: what it is and how to do it
  • Moderating factors in successful impression management
  • Practical application of impression management
  • Review and close
There are currently no dates planned for this course. Register your interest for future dates or enquire about in-house options.

Course Details

WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?

This course is for anyone who cares about how they see themselves and how others see them. It is particularly relevant to analysts or managers looking to develop their professional profile, or those needing to operate in sensitive environments. Previous participants have included leaders and managers, analysts engaged in Human Intelligence (HUMINT) and information operations, communications and public relations professionals, investigators, and consultants.

HOW YOU BENEFIT

On completion of this course, you will have the ability to:

  • Define the identity or identifies you have and / or want to create
  • Deploy a range of impression management techniques to create and test the robustness of the impressions you manage
  • Assess the identities created by others and give feedback on how they can be strengthened or challenged

WHAT YOU RECEIVE

  • A full set of course slides and user guides
  • Tip and cheat sheets
  • An index of recommended readings to support further study
  • A certificate of completion

COURSE FEE

EUR 500

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

Please observe the following technical requirements:

  • A Windows or Mac laptop
  • Google Chrome
  • Microsoft Office
  • Zoom
  • A second monitor is recommended but not essential