Know Yourself: Grow Your Wealth

In our ever-expanding world of style and image experts, one problem that often arises is the question of what differentiates one image consultant from another.

Yes, your words matter and how you communicate with your clients can be the key to a successful future. Use empathy, thoughtfulness and kindness in your business interactions and think before you speak.

Of course, everything is about context. No one who is attending your virtual meeting on being a software developer, or lawn mower repairman, or a big wave surfer at Nazaré, is likely to expect you to appear in a suit. The point is to give some serious consideration to how people normally dress in your profession.

Learning how to become better communicators and better listeners will help us enter this new age of the experience economy and walk, talk and grow with civility as our foundation.

Civility is crucial to all our interactions, from face-to-face to the ever-changing global digital frontier

Since the age of Socrates, social interaction has been continually scrutinized, leading to a constant change in guidelines and rules for social conduct. As a result, societal parameters do exist surrounding how society defines proper behaviors.

As economies change, so do communication skills. From these changes, a need arises for new ways to incorporate a healthy social compass into our lives.

Trust is a factor in all communications, and civility reflects back to understanding and respecting our differences.