• Workplace Etiquette: Be Your Best at Work

    Treating your colleagues with respect can gain you a winning edge and create a win-win situation for everyone at the office. Here are some basic rules of etiquette in the office and at office parties. • Have respect for those around you, and show a keen interest in your position. • Familiarize yourself with the…

  • Tech Etiquette Q&A

    Navigating computers and their problems can be challenging for all of us. At some point, you may need more than a computer Help line and a Genius Bar. This is the time to ask a computer technician to come to your home. In this situation, what are the rules for both client and technician? Here…

  • The Art of the Receiving Line at Official Functions

    A receiving line is the perfect opportunity for guests and hosts to meet one another at a large event. They are only essential for groups of fifty or more, when it’s otherwise impossible for the hosts to greet everyone individually. They range from the most formal (for a high-ranking official such as a head of…

  • Out and About This Summer

    When stepping out this summer, whether for business or pleasure, observing the rules of good behavior will always make your day or evening go more smoothly. Escalator Etiquette • Stay to the right and walk to the left to pass. This rule applies to all escalators in department stores, shopping malls, or subways. • Don’t…

  • Travel Etiquette for Smooth Journeys

    The world is divided by two kinds of people: those who exhibit good manners and those who exhibit bad ones. Why does it seem that air travel and bad manners are inseparable? Travel should be an adventure, at least that’s how the famous novelist John Steinbeck put it: “A journey is like a marriage. The…