You Don’t Need To Wear Heels To Make a Point

In the corporate world of power dressing, we often forget that our insights are far more valuable than our heels. Or is it?

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I once had this interesting conversation with a colleague on this topic of corporate dress codes. They mentioned how they find some people in our wider division aren’t serious about their work and they think of them as ‘Freeloaders’. When I asked ‘Why?’, they were quick to reply ‘They are in sneakers and jeans every day. And this is a professional set-up, yeah, so that’s only fair to assume’

Now in my honest opinion, it isn’t fair to assume. But then that’s what I think and clearly not how most people think.

Perception plays a key role

Most times we are superficial in our judgement.

10 secs is more than enough to stereotype someone — their attire, hair, shoes and of course the colour of your skin (yes that plays a part too — not as much in the corporate circles in today’s times as compared to yesteryears but we cannot fully do away with the race factor, so yes, race too.) Even before we realise, we have made several pre-conceived notions about our colleagues and it all shows up in our conversations, judgements and…