Tuesday, August 14, 2012

University Etiquette When to Get Up Business Social Etiquette

Outclass the Competition
by Harold Almon
baesoe.com

In a business, a person is to get up to be introduced, and at the conclusion of a meeting. A man is to stand whenever a senior person, visitor, or a woman enters a room. This action is normally omitted in regards to an immediate supervisor, co-worker, or when you are ill, or old. A receptionist or a secretary is usually not expected to rise to greet each caller, but may do so as a mark of honor or friendship. Remain standing as long as a senior person does, or until you are specifically asked to do otherwise. Remain standing as long as any man or peer who is talking remains standing. A more senior person can avoid getting up to greet a job applicant for a non-executive position. This person may rise for a junior person at a first interview, and at a last interview when an employee is leaving an organization. Stand, if a woman comes to, or is brought to, your desk or table. Stand as long as any woman near is standing (even when asked to do otherwise). Stand to answer any woman who addresses a remark. Stand the entire time anyone in your party is engaged in conversation with a woman at your table, no matter how long. You can even eat standing. (You may omit standing, when a woman who is working in public comes to your table, unless she is also a close friend.) In a private home, get up every time a woman enters a room. Remain standing as long as any woman near does, or until specifically asked to do otherwise. When there are more than twelve guests in the room, rise only when a woman joins your group.

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