What goes wrong with your corporate grooming?

A question, which hints a few disturbances about the sight of you, if not towards how perfect you could be.  As impolite as that sounded; management students, trainees and executives have collectively missed out on the amusing sight of how desperately they attempt to interact formally within the formal  atmosphere, and how this attempt is humorously unmasked the moment they walk out of these situational obligations, yet in sight of all the same people who are now ever ready to stamp their judgments, which in turn are hard to erase. 

The answer to your elevation in the corporate sector or platinum recognition in the educational training, lies beyond what the institution asks you to routinely perform and submit.  Apart from your performance you claim it being unquestionably up to the mark, you possibly missed a few things about yourself that made you appear to your seniors like a professional casino thief they hired but still in the rags of a petty robber.  

Some lesser known etiquettes? Self Presentation?

Kick-starting the advisory list with the most peculiar habit to question;

Do not exchange a handshake inside a loo nor outside it. Limit your verbal interactions in this room you are all assigned to do your routine tasks, biological or grooming, discreetly. These moves, in turn, amusingly make or break your career when you step in the washroom with your senior officials, the possibility of which is not so rare

Folding one’s legs and taking a seat is not very questionable an act. But you would not want to dedicate the dirt-rich soles of your shoes to your colleagues and seniors when they sit beside you, which casts an impression of you deeming your superiority over them all, as well as an unintended insult.

Do you twist your lips when you make a little contradicting, funny or sarcastic statement? Or smirk? Make sure these facial moves are not up to exaggerated levels, which would definitely cast the perception on the other person to assume these statements are the most that your intellect could deliver.

Ignore the advice of smiling constantly while you do absolutely anything.  There is an advisable expression for every moment. A subtle smile of wisdom, a wide smile of satisfaction to reflect, a straight face of being neutral and unbiased, a mild smirk in a talk to belittle something, they have all got their right moment to be expressed or played with, especially when addressing an unpredictable or unstable client.

How could we survive in a world of billion people without listening to them speaking things beyond our reach of thought processing and perceptions? In fact, a diversity of perception with a mutual acceptance of listening to one another is what keeps a marketing team pitch-perfect and profitable to what they were hired for! Listening goes beyond accepting what people say. It is also about accepting what your environment whispers. This is why; an argument is futile without listening or showing that you do, to put your point across as a well-informed one. Always find a path to negotiate! 

It is never too late.