Lots of my clients travel on business from time to time and I know some find it difficult knowing what clothes to pack, particularly if they want to fit everything within cabin-sized luggage.
The key to packing a capsule business wardrobe is to ensure that everything you take earns its place, in other words that each piece coordinates with several others so that it can be wo...
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Dressing For Success in Business
Companies spend a lot of time and money on getting their corporate branding right, but how many are prepared to invest in helping employees with their personal branding?
I was delighted to be asked by Emma Maslen, MD of SAP Concur, to advise staff on how to “Dress For Success”. Emma had a personal consultation with me some years ago and felt that it had helped her develop a st...
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Your Professional Image
"Personal style has always played, and still plays, a crucial role in the career trajectories of leaders" - Fortune Magazine, March 2015
Research shows that we make judgements about people’s character, professionalism, socio-economic status etc within about seven seconds of meeting. Once we’ve formed that initial opinion it tends to stick as we subconsciously seek evidence to ...
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Personal Branding For Professional Success
Before I trained as an image consultant, I spent more years than I care to remember in a corporate environment. I worked in recruitment, sales and channel management so I know how important the way we present ourselves can be to our professional success. Rightly or wrongly, people form opinions about our character, professionalism, socio-economic status and authority based on w...
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