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Empowerment Tip
Dress and Act Peofessionaly

The usual purpose of dressing and acting professionally is to impress other people that you are willing to conform to codes of behavior favored by the organization. If you dress fash?ionably many people will assume that you are already suc?cessful or are striving for success. Similarly, if you act in a refined, mature manner people will assume that you are professional in your outlook. Dressing and acting profes?sionally also ma,kes a contribution to projecting self-confi?dence. If you are proud of your clothing and mannerisms, you will project more self-confidence than if you are self-con?scious about how you are dressed and act.

An action tip here is to dress in a manner that makes you feel good about yourself to achieve a boost in self-confidence. But be careful not to choose a wardrobe that makes you think more about your clothing than about the situation you are facing. To find a confidence-building outfit, you may have to try on different outfits that you already own or purchase new clothing. Keep your confidence,..building wardrobe on hand for days when projecting self-confidence is especially important.

Similarly, review your general behavior and manner?isms to decide which facets make you feel the most profes?sional. Here is a sampling of the type of behavior we have discovered that makes many people feel professional:
> When somebody in the office makes an utterly gross and tasteless comment, you smile politely and say something to the effect, "Okay, let's move on to something else."
> When other people have gathered to gripe about the boss, you say, "Let's try to keep things in perspective. Has also made some important contributions to our department."
> A representative from a potential vendor says he bets you $500 in cash that your firm will not place an order for $25,000 worth of equipment from his company. (The representative, of course, "loses" if your company places the order.) You say politely, "Thanks for your offer but I do not gamble in mak?ing business decisions. Besides what you propose violates our policies about evaluating bids from vendors."
> You are bypassed for promotion and you think you should have received the nod. You write the person