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How to look professional for Business Meetings

  • Written by: Barney Whistance


In the world of business competition, it is hard to keep up with the client’s and stakeholders’ impressions. On the other side, the business meeting outfit is required to be given similar importance as there was for your interview. It is not the fact that after an interview, your professional career is over. For formal and professional business practices, keeping the business meeting attire as formal as possible is also important. Moreover, you also just can’t opt for simple jeans, pants and a hoody for your business meeting. It is very important to learn professional dress codes and guidelines for the wearables of business meetings.

The main reason for dressing up professionally is the impression it will entail on the stakeholders, clients or the workmates. Opting from formal men’s suit increases the business establishment and communication for your meetings and aspires the audience. Dressing professionally proves your experience and knowledge, which later benefits in the persuasion and trust gains. Even though its difficult to find the perfect attire that suits best for your business meeting. But to put ease to your dilemma, let’s discuss how you can look professional for your business meeting.

  • Getting Perfect Fit

No matter how much professional your attire choice is, if it doesn’t fit you well, you are on the odd page. The first step for the professional business meetings is to dress the attire that not only suits best but also fits perfectly. Things become really terrible when the dress stuck from the narrow spots and becomes too tight for you.

Apart from tight suits, your suit also shouldn’t be too loose for you. Otherwise, the audience might think that you’ve borrowed it from someone. However, a perfect fit suit will ensure square shoulders, pinched trouser on legs, which will fit just above your shoe.

  • Proper Haircut

So you want a fashionable haircut. However, you also want dapper hair that looks professional for your side. With these choices in mind, it becomes quite difficult to decide whether to go for snazzy or limit yourself to the professional hairs. Most of the time, businesses also limit their employees to conservative haircuts so they can appear professional among others. Although seeing the world that follows the fashion trends, it becomes difficult to abide by these limitations for hairstyles.

For the moment if you have a business meeting coming up, you can opt from different professional haircuts choices. Professional haircuts include cleanliness, trimming, and adaptability for different occasions. The small details of trimming and sharp edges of hairs make the crystal clear description of your professionalism in the business.

  • Wear a Watch

People think that wearing a watch these days is pretty outdated. But in fact, it’s not. A wristwatch plays an important role in the firm’s professional and potential to deliver the services. It ensures the clients to expect professional work timely and increases the trust in the company. However, for a business meeting, wearing a watch is always a prestigious accessory.

A watch increases the versatility and simplicity of the operations. It explains your relationship with time and increases your fascination with the business. A voguish and attractive watch in your wrist can deliver great attention to your presentation.

  • Polished Shoes

For professional outfittings and attire in your business meeting, a perfect and polished pair of shoes can never be an exception. Shoes hold great importance in outfit impressions and are mostly counted as mediums for professional judgments. Not only that, the polished leather shoes significantly increases the style and experience with your firm.

Whether you choose loafers, or monk strap or the wingtip, they hold their own importance for different occasions. Matching your shoes with the trouser you are going to wear is also an important step to look professional in the business meeting.

  • Attention to Details

As discussed earlier, the smallest details in your looks can significantly impact your career and business meetings. First and the most important detail is the cleanliness of your clothes. In addition to the cleaning, the perfectly ironed clothes always check out for a professional look at the business meeting.

Additionally, your nails, beard, and ears also must be cleaned for the purpose of business meetings. Your clean nails can deposit a powerful statement on the meeting table.

  • Cultural Research

A research conducted by 34sp.com explains that more than 55% of people shared their agreement that professional outfit always deposits better impressions. 66% of the employees say that their higher authority must choose a professional outfit for the business meeting. Even though these facts show clear importance of looking professional for business meetings, sometimes it doesn’t work in an expected manner. A professional look often requires cultural research for the client you are going to meet. These clients have their own perspective of formal attire. This cultural research involves the separation of outfits which are suitable for specific clients. An international client may often find it informal even when you have struggled to adopt an optimal and professional look.

Final Words

In the high pressure and professional environment, it is the dress that holds its own importance to deposit an impression. Apart from the fact of confidence, the right attire and its accessories increase the professional front. Moreover, a professional look in the business meetings requires a career-oriented and nonchalant personality that increases the client’s interests. In the end, it’s your choice to select the right style that defines your character and the company.

Australian business launches Elite Football Tours and International Football Cup

  • Written by: Tess Sanders Lazarus


Australian business, Elite Football Tours, has announced the commencement of its world class football tours to Europe and the creation of a new international football tournament called the International Players Cup.   

 

Elite Football Tours launched this year to provide unique and customised experiences for young Australian athletes to train, play and learn alongside elite level football clubs and at some of the best facilities internationally.

 

The first Elite Football Tour consisting of over 150 junior players from several local football clubs and teams including the Brisbane Roar, will depart Australia in early January and spend seven days in Spain taking part in a fully customised tour involving a Real Madrid Fundacion Clinic at Real Madrid Headquarters.  The clinic includes workshops on diet and nutrition, sports psychology, and social media, video analysis, and time with elite level players.  In addition, the tour also includes a Coach the Coaches workshop for Australian football coaches.  

 

While in Spain, members of the tour will also participate in the International Football Cup 2020 being held at La Ciudad del Fútbol de la Real Federación Española de Fútbol, which is a world class football training facility opened in 2003, serving as the headquarters of the Royal Spanish Football Federation .   

 

The International Players Cup is an annual international competition involving some of the world’s leading elite football junior academies.  Considered by many to be one of the most significant new initiatives in international football for junior players, this year’s inaugural tournament will host international teams including La Liga academies Leganes, Atletico Madrid, Rayo Vallecano de Madrid, Escuela Huesca and Getafe and the biggest Chinese Super League club Guangzhou Evergrande, with Australian teams Vic West All Stars, Oakleigh Cannons FC, African Australian Elite, Brisbane Roar FC, Keilor Downs SC, Avondale FC ready to take on the challenge.

 

Ambassador for Elite Football Tours, Mark Bosnich, an Australian former goalkeeper, today said, “Elite Football Tours is one of the most exciting initiatives to happen to Australian football.  

 

“The tours will give Aussie junior players the ability to experience the energy and excitement of elite level football in Europe and to also measure themselves against some of the world’s leading academy players. 

 

“On top of this the new International Players Cup will give Australian junior players the incredible opportunity to play against some of the best football academies in the world, giving them real international experience as well as exposure to the world’s best.

 

“The competition will also put Australian junior players in front of international scouts.”

 

Elite Football Tours and the International Players Cup are both initiatives of Atkinson Prakash Charan, Australian entrepreneur and venture capitalist.   

 

“Our tournament, International Players Cup, which is being held for the first time in Spain in January will be a constant feature on the football world stage from 2020.   Elite level training academies all over the world have put their hand up to be part of it and I’m really proud to have created something special and unique that Australians can be included in," Atkinson Prakash said.

 

“Our mission is to introduce more programs, a variety of sports and new partnerships with elite teams, schools and community clubs to provide opportunities for Australian juniors both male and female to experience their love of sport in Europe, UK and the US.  It is indeed an exciting time to be involved in football and sports in general in Australia.” 

 

International Players Cup

 

The 2020 International Players Cup will be played in Spain at the Madrid Las Rozas, the Spanish National Team’s training facility in January 2020.     The tournament consists of 12 teams including Victorian NPL Clubs, several Australian teams and various professional junior academies including Rayo, Gatafe, Leganes, Real Madrid and China’s largest academy, Guangzhou Evergrande.    The winning team will take home $20,000 Euros. Eligible players must be born in 2004 and 2005. The International Players Cup is administered by Elite Football Tours

 

Elite Football Tours

 

Elite Football Tours is an Australian company established by Atkinson Prakash Charan. Elite Football Tours undertakes football tours worldwide providing players, coaches, administrators, referees and families with the opportunity to experience elite level football at academy, team and tournament level.   Bespoke programs are included in tours that focus on player education, skill development, game planning and strategy, fitness and injury management and recovery, health and wellness, diet and nutrition, and social media and player behaviour.  Programs also focus on coach development, club administration and team management. Tours are also customised to meet the needs of specific teams. Elite Football Tours has established formal partnerships with the Brisbane Roar and Melbourne Victory. 

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