Train to become an Image Consultant

"Consultants put image on corporate agenda. A thriving niche business!"

Fast Track to Your New Career in Image Coaching

The Accredited Diploma of Image Management™ gives you the tools to develop a successful approach to life and begin a brand new career. Led by world renowned image consultant Jon-Michail and his industry trained associates, their fun yet powerful approach will impart select and valuable insider information regarding image, branding and image consulting as a business. This program combines the best of theory, practise and process to develop inspirational image and lifestyle consultants.

Superior communication, inner image, manners and etiquette, dress, grooming principles, body language, colour analysis & psychology, making the image consulting business super successful - all of these modules and more are packaged to elicit the greatest achievements and instil the maximum insider knowledge of Image Consulting Profession. An absolute must for those wishing to pursue an exciting and profitable new direction.

The course is designed for people who desire to commence a new career in the thriving image management profession or are working in management, marketing, public relations, branding, human resources, entrepreneurship and/or coaching and wish to add new skills to their knowledge base.

Those who undertake the Diploma can be assured of a solid introduction to the skills, knowledge and "street smarts" required to succeed in the industry as the program will be led by internationally renowned image consultant Jon-Michail, CEO of Image Group International and his team of accredited coaches.

Develop competencies in the qualitative aspects of leadership including:

• Personal transformation of leadership style
• Competitive and cooperative negotiation skills
• Confidence in giving and receiving feedback
• Networking with other high potential professionals
• Effective personal presentation
• Handling difficult workplace and personal conflict
• Creating positive teams and organisational cultures
• Strategic thinking across all functional areas

What you will learn:

• Overview of "The Seven Aspects of Authentic Image Management™" (AIM™).
• Where it all begins.
• Overview of the image industry now and the future.
• How to prepare for the image industry of the future.
• The quality requirements to succeed in the image business.
• The seven major functions of image professionals.
• The 13 activities image professionals perform.
• "A Day in the Life of..." - A panel of image professionals.
• Interactive workshops on career paths in the image industry.
• A no-nonsense approach to the reality of what it takes to be a successful image consultant.

Walk away with:

• Life Skills for Success
• Entrepreneurial Business Skills
• Practical tools and strategies to make confident and sound personal and business decisions across all functional areas of image management
• Insight into your own personal style and an understanding about how that impacts your team, peers and clients.
• Increased knowledge in essential functional areas of image management at a strategic level.
• Practical tools to make image management interventions across all functional areas.
• Improved skills in both competitive and cooperative negotiations.
• A personal development plan to become an inspirational world-class leader.
• A life-long support network of like-minded leaders from diverse backgrounds.
• Worldwide resources.

The 7 Aspects of Authentic Image Management™!

An Introduction to Personal Brand Management

Changing your image and life brand can change your life. The Image Management Consulting and Coaching Diploma is based on a holistic process. It proposes that seven crucial aspects should interrelate to build the desired cohesive brand image to maximise your career, business and personal success.

1. Communications

Communications is one of the seven units that make up the Image Consulting and Coaching Diploma and is the delivery of a message through verbal and non-verbal techniques. Communications explains the heart of an individual and an organisation and clarifies the balance and mixture of its fundamental facts.

2. Colour Analysis & Psychology

Colour Analysis and Psychology is one of the units from the Image Consulting and Coaching Diploma. Colour initiates the image management process. Colour plays a critical role in every decision we make. It communicates subconscious messages of health, power, culture and environment. It unifies the image message.

3. Inner Image

Inner Image is one of the seven units in the Image Consulting and Coaching Diploma and is the reputation and relationship you have with yourself regarding security, self-hood, belonging, purpose and competence. In the business world, it expresses the organisation's corporate soul to realise its visions concerning research and development, financial objectives, acquisitions, divestures, marketing practices and positioning as an "employer of choice".

4. Protocol & Etiquette

Protocol and Etiquette is one of seven units of the Image Consulting and Coaching Diploma and defines the acceptable or required behaviour in social and business situations. Included in this unit is the latest knowledge of how to best work with the X-Y Generation as research indicates that manners, language and respect have declined in society in the last couple of decades.

5. Grooming Principles

The Grooming Principles is the physical manifestations of health and well-being. They are the operating principles that describe the basic environment and character of an organisation, its products and employees.

6. Image Objects

Image Objects are persons, places or things that influence our perception of individuals, products, organisations and entities. Selection, analysis, and use of image objects will help people and their organisations create the appropriate messages to convey and support their mission.

7. Wardrobe Strategies

Wardrobe Strategies is one of the seven units in the Image Consulting and Coaching Diploma and is part of methods to express lifestyle and profession. Clothing is a tactical tool, like currency used to barter goodwill. Participants will experience a special section on how to create Professional Appearance Codes™ for corporations and "live" introductions to creating powerful makeovers.

Plus The Business of Image Consulting

The Business of Image Consulting is a unit of the Image Consulting and Coaching Diploma and demonstrates the "How To", in building a successful image consulting business.

It is the "action" part that compliments the theory of creating a successful coaching practise.

The unit covers the fundamental entrepreneurial street-smarts in launching your own business as an entrepreneur and for professionals engaged in the corporate sector how to grow your own career and organisation by being an intra-preneur.

Previous study requirements

Previous knowledge or experience is not required.

Completion of this course

Note: On successful completion of each unit participants will be awarded their Certificate. The Diploma will be awarded to participants that have successfully completed all seven units.

The Certificate and Diploma are endorsed and issued by the Institute of Image Management.

Start Dates:

• TBA

2010 Dates:

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