PART 2MAINTAINING A PROFESSIONAL IMAGE
You must realize that if you aren’t managing your own professional image, someone else is.
—Professor Laura Morgan Roberts,Harvard Business School
What do others see when you walk into a room?
You always project an image—when you attend a meeting, when you make a presentation, even when you meet a colleague in the hallway. You have no control over how others see you. None. But you can control what you are sending out.
I believe that if you project a confident, credible, composed image, people will respond to you as if you are all those things. Who cares what you are feeling on the inside! For most of us, the inside eventually will catch up with the outside.
To a large extent, your professional image is based ...
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