🌎 Professionalism and personal style

Let's talk about professionalism and personal style.

I'm Nycka Nunes, a personal style consultant and visual artist. I've been working in the fashion industry since 1981, and I'm one of the most experienced stylists in the world. In this blog, I talk about personal style, personal branding, and related topics. I work with my own methodology and serve clients from all over the world, although I don't travel to countries where my safety could be at risk, such as countries at war or countries with Islamic regimes.

I've already explained what personal style is in the previous text, published yesterday. Now, I'm going to tell you some reasons why you think you're demonstrating professionalism by following certain rules and may be demonstrating the opposite, if you're interested in leadership roles. Yes, I'm going to limit the explanation to leadership roles, because in most cases I'm too expensive for professionals without that level of expertise.

When you follow generic rules about how to have a professional image on LinkedIn or anywhere, you're demonstrating that you're a good employee, a good follower of orders, not a leader. To demonstrate leadership, you need to have adequate professional guidance, so that your personal image reflects your best qualities as a leader. And you won't achieve this with just any navy blue suit. Dressing like everyone else only shows that you are a cheap commodity, a professional without an identity, easily replaceable. Are you? If you are, you can stop reading this text. If you are not, or if you want to be a prominent professional, you must understand that general rules are for employees, not for leaders. And this does not mean that you should dress however you want. Personal image is a nonverbal communication tool and, as such, you need guidance from someone who is fluent in that language to know what to do to communicate what you want. In the same way that you need a translator to help you say something in a language that you do not master.

Professionalism also means knowing how to value the work of others, and asking professionals to guide you on topics that you do not understand. Unless you want to study hard to find out what they know, and that is usually the slowest way to achieve your goal.

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Nycka Nunes

nycka@nyckanunes.art