1. Valuing Diversity Our beliefs Our personality Our personal habits
Our attitudes
Our likes & dislikes
Let’s look at the factors that affect image & how these factors work together to project an image

2. Are We all the Same?
We are judge by the way that dress

3. What makes Us Different?

4. Is it the Way We Dress? UCLA study found that …
…are you too loud? Do people cringe when you speak? Do you sound like all your friends? Valley girl?
Linguist can track your place of origin within 2 miles of HOME.
Be aware of how you are being received? Ask others if you are too loud. Do you use correct grammar?

5. Is it our 1st Impression? ID a thief Listen with your eyes
Height, weight, hair color, body shape, facial hair, expression
Listen with your eyes
Nothing new. Cues on your image. Cues on the image of others.
Outdoors type, exercise queen or king,
Obviously, what you do or others do for a living determines what they wear to work.

6. Do we adhere to Workplace standards?
These are the workplace standards that NO ONE wants to talk about and may not have been taught.
65% of all women, work outside the home in addition to working in the home.
Grooming that is not just how the package is presented.
Did you take a shower today-everyday? Use tooth paste, deodorant. Are you using to much perfume,cologne? Do all your friends know where or when you arrive before you enter a room?
Are you coming to work with wet hair-un-groomed? What image is that projecting. Do you role out of bed and roll into work with yesterdays attire?
Big: doesn’t mean better. Little isn’t necessarily better. 2 sizes to small isn’t necessarily better.
Remember that there is a time and a place for all types of dress.
Little clothes isn’t any better than real big. In fact big clothes make you look thinner than to small of clothes.

7. How do people see us?
Isn’t the goal of an employee to earn more money? Then what make someone get a raise or a promotion or ?
Stereotyping is a FACT of LIFE!
Cheerleader, police, tall people command respect / tall women intimidate men and some people.
What we wear should not determine what's inside of us, but it does.

8. Is He Trustworthy?
Would you want to give your money to someone with a negative image? What image are you projecting.

9. What does he represent?
Uniforms? Informal banking in grocery stores has become the big thing and not all that casual. If you are wearing an apron then you look like a grocery store employee. Thus, many banks(Wells Fargo) have gone to bank issued khaki uniforms. The women employees received two jacket of slacks, and a selection scarves and silk flowers in deep, red, gold and blue. Men got two suits each, four shirts, and five neckties. All in gabardine.
Experts in the banking industry are in conflict about dress. Some feel that being more dressed up than the shoppers does not make them approachable. Others feel that dressing professionally projects confidence and trust in the bank. Do you want people to ask you where the milk is?
Wells Fargo has a specific dress code as well as…

10. What does she represent?

11. What does she stand for?

12. Will she be nice to work with?

13. Does she believe have the same beliefs I have?

14. Will my Supervisor be a Pleasure to Work with ?
How many brides maids dresses, party dresses, tux rentals, etc do you have in your closet?

15. Will she be fun to Work with?

16. She Must be a Nice lady…
Go to the most expensive stores. Check out quality, price, if you don’t like to shop,
ask a friend to shop for you. Have things held, and you go & check them out.
Make shopping a game

17. “We are not all the Same”