Creditability Quotes

“I find it disturbing that one anthropologist's readings of transcripts are being listened to more seriously than 40 senior health service clinicians.
[Referring to Jean La Fontaine's 1994 research paper for the DOH]”
― Valerie Sinason

“In A COVID-19 World, Don’t Zoom Away Your Credibility.

Your attire and grooming are some of the simplest things you can do to maintain your professional bearing.”
― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today

“This raises an interesting question in what constitutes “appropriate dress” while teleconferencing. While various authors have issued various guidelines over time, the abrupt turn for America at large to resort to teleconferencing has left somewhat of a sartorial lacuna.”
― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today

“In the absence of clear contextual teleconferencing rules, one way to look at this might be to not ask the question of how you should look.

Rather, put yourself in place of the person or people that have to look at you during the teleconference, and ask these three questions:

1) Does it demonstrate personal respect for the position you hold?
2) Does it demonstrate respect for your peers?
3) Does it demonstrate respect for the institution of which you are a part?”
― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today

“Being properly dressed and groomed for a meeting is the first step in demonstrating that you not only care about your own credibility, but you are keenly aware of how you could be perceived by others. Above all, you understand that you are, in fact, the face of your institution.”
― Cindy Ann Peterson, The Power of Civility: Top Experts Reveal the Secrets to Social Capital

“An excellent current day example of online executive presence is Dr. Anthony Fauci’s testimony to the Senate Health Committee on Tuesday May 12th, 2020. Providing his testimony virtually, Dr. Fauci was well groomed and dressed in a coat and tie, just as he would on a normal work day. His suit clearly was not a $8000 Brioni. Rather, it reflected a senior government official with a simpler taste who is more focused on the weightier issues of public health currently afflicting the US and the world. As the face of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, his suit not only signals deference to the institution he leads, but reflects a keen awareness for how his appearance could be perceived by everyone online.
Even from home, the message in his persona was “I know my job, I’m prepared, and I take it seriously.” Rhetorically, imagine if he had appeared in a bathrobe looking like he had just gotten out of bed.”
― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today

“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.”
― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today

“Don’t let the fact that just because the meetings are now virtual, you no longer need to be concerned with how you look.

It is important to send the message that you are just as prepared and take your job just as seriously when meetings are virtual.

This could be especially costly to your career if your boss or someone more senior to you suddenly appear as an unexpected attendee.”
― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today

“Your attire and grooming are some of the simplest things you can do to maintain your professional bearing. Don’t allow yourself to get lazy and allow these small oversights to cost you your credibility, job or career.”
― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today