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🎥 Image, Impression, Credibilty and Trust Engineering for Client-Facing Professionals : Episode #458
Video Free Resources here: dale-carnegie.co.jp/freebundles
My Point of View: In business, credibility can be created before competence is tested. We can sell them on trusting us by engineering the first impressions we want, so let's be intentional and let's be sharp.
🎩 Classic Menswear Conventions – Know the Rule to Break the Rule
#34. Q: Should I wear a tie bar in my shirt collar?
No. Don’t wear those gold or silver collar bars that join the two sides of the shirt collar together and push up the tie. It is adding too much bling to what should be more zen approach to classic dressing. It is too fussy and looks like you are trying too hard.
👔 The 4 Vs of Executive Presence: Visual, Vocal, Verbal, Value
🎯 Who am I meeting and what impression do I want to create:
I had a podcast arranged with Anatole Varin, President of The Plant, for my show Japan's Top Business Interviews and dressed accordingly for the video, but he had to reset.
Suit: Custom grey birds eye suit, double pleats, notch lapels, Barchetta breast pocket, 35mm double cuffs, flap pockets, side vents.
Shirt: Thomas Pink London 1984 pink shirt with English Cuffs. Abbeyhorn Holme 1749 horn collars stays from Kirby Allison Dallas 2007
Tie: Nirvana Club club tie from Diroma London 1980
Socks: Grey over the calf socks
✨ Personal Flair
Cufflinks: Hawson Huizhou 2017 dark pink cufflinks
Pocket Square: Isaia Napoli 1920 red and blue pocket square. Stabiliser from Kuska Fabrics Kyoto 1936.
Badge: Dale Carnegie New York 1912, silver corporate badge
Pen: Mont Blanc Hamburg 1906
Card Holder: Lanvin Paris 1889
Watch: Vintage gold 3000.2.M model Gucci Firenze 1921 with a very simple black dial. The burgundy alligator strap is able to be swapped out for my black Alligator strap when I need to do so, thanks to the Jean Rousseau Paris 1954 customisation.
Fragrance: Acqua di Gio Georgio Armani Milano 1996
👞 High Shine Shoes: The high shine shoes were dark brown, Vergano calf, Carmina Mallorca 1954, toe cap Oxfords with a swan neck design, the Rain last, JR Redenbach soles.
Intention outcomes: I chose the pink shirt for a nice contrast with the light grey birds eye suit, which I thought would look good on camera, but with the postponement of the shoot, I was all dressed up with nowhere to go!
👉 If you want Executive Presence in Tokyo, I coach leaders on Presence, Leadership, Communications, Presentations and Sales.
We have a bonus for you packed with free resources—one that’ll make you go, ‘Yep, this is exactly what I wanted.’ Head to the link now. Dale-Carnegie.co.jp/en/about/freebundles
📩 greg.story@dalecarnegie.com 🌐 dale-carnegie.co.jp 📑 Access our free 35 White Papers on leadership, sales, and executive presence in Japan: bit.ly/4nbN0pj 📘 Download our 19 Free E-books: bit.ly/42MbKMK
✍️ Dr. Greg Story – President, Dale Carnegie Tokyo Training. Author of Japan Business Mastery, Japan Sales Mastery, Japan Presentations Mastery, and Japan Leadership Mastery.
🎥 Image, Impression, Credibilty and Trust Engineering for Client-Facing Professionals : Episode #458
Video Free Resources here: dale-carnegie.co.jp/freebundles
My Point of View: In business, credibility can be created before competence is tested. We can sell them on trusting us by engineering the first impressions we want, so let's be intentional and let's be sharp.
🎩 Classic Menswear Conventions – Know the Rule to Break the Rule
#34. Q: Should I wear a tie bar in my shirt collar?
No. Don’t wear those gold or silver collar bars that join the two sides of the shirt collar together and push up the tie. It is adding too much bling to what should be more zen approach to classic dressing. It is too fussy and looks like you are trying too hard.
👔 The 4 Vs of Executive Presence: Visual, Vocal, Verbal, Value
🎯 Who am I meeting and what impression do I want to create:
I had a podcast arranged with Anatole Varin, President of The Plant, for my show Japan's Top Business Interviews and dressed accordingly for the video, but he had to reset.
Suit: Custom grey birds eye suit, double pleats, notch lapels, Barchetta breast pocket, 35mm double cuffs, flap pockets, side vents.
Shirt: Thomas Pink London 1984 pink shirt with English Cuffs. Abbeyhorn Holme 1749 horn collars stays from Kirby Allison Dallas 2007
Tie: Nirvana Club club tie from Diroma London 1980
Socks: Grey over the calf socks
✨ Personal Flair
Cufflinks: Hawson Huizhou 2017 dark pink cufflinks
Pocket Square: Isaia Napoli 1920 red and blue pocket square. Stabiliser from Kuska Fabrics Kyoto 1936.
Badge: Dale Carnegie New York 1912, silver corporate badge
Pen: Mont Blanc Hamburg 1906
Card Holder: Lanvin Paris 1889
Watch: Vintage gold 3000.2.M model Gucci Firenze 1921 with a very simple black dial. The burgundy alligator strap is able to be swapped out for my black Alligator strap when I need to do so, thanks to the Jean Rousseau Paris 1954 customisation.
Fragrance: Acqua di Gio Georgio Armani Milano 1996
👞 High Shine Shoes: The high shine shoes were dark brown, Vergano calf, Carmina Mallorca 1954, toe cap Oxfords with a swan neck design, the Rain last, JR Redenbach soles.
Intention outcomes: I chose the pink shirt for a nice contrast with the light grey birds eye suit, which I thought would look good on camera, but with the postponement of the shoot, I was all dressed up with nowhere to go!
👉 If you want Executive Presence in Tokyo, I coach leaders on Presence, Leadership, Communications, Presentations and Sales.
We have a bonus for you packed with free resources—one that’ll make you go, ‘Yep, this is exactly what I wanted.’ Head to the link now. Dale-Carnegie.co.jp/en/about/freebundles
📩 greg.story@dalecarnegie.com 🌐 dale-carnegie.co.jp 📑 Access our free 35 White Papers on leadership, sales, and executive presence in Japan: bit.ly/4nbN0pj 📘 Download our 19 Free E-books: bit.ly/42MbKMK
✍️ Dr. Greg Story – President, Dale Carnegie Tokyo Training. Author of Japan Business Mastery, Japan Sales Mastery, Japan Presentations Mastery, and Japan Leadership Mastery.
