University Grooming Etiquette Considerate Actions Business Social Etiquette Lessons

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by Harold Almon

Carry items in your left hand. You can carry a woman's heavy package, coat, or suitcase as the occasion arises. (Omit from carrying a woman's purse.) You may carry a bag strapped over your right shoulder. Avoid carrying a back pack over your lower back (and causing you to having to give it another name.)

Offer to carry anything for a person who is old, sick, or who is carrying a child. Offer your seat to any senior person in your company.

Offer your arm, or take the elbow of a companion, but only if that person needs assistance in crossing an area, at a curb, or on stairs.

Carry money in a money clip for tipping, taxies, and for mad-type emergencies.

Carry a pencil and a pen with as much metal in each as possible. Carry a fountain pen when you can. Even a non-expensive one can leave a good impression.

Carry a timepiece: a wrist watch for work, a pocket timepiece for formal and social occasions. A timepiece can be handed up from father to son. It is about the totem not the time.

Perform small services. Offer to open a window, and/or tell someone the time, when the desire for each is identified.

You might carry a cellular telephone. It is another kind of totem. It can be about the time. Each person may have need to track it. It may be about an emergency: place an “ICE #” In Case of Emergency contact number in your contacts. Use lock out codes in case you lose it. You may add to it a GPS in case you or it gets lost. It could list a REWARD# to call to have your telephone returned to you.

A cellular telephone is to be used in private as much as possible. When engaged in a conversation, step outside out of earshot of others or step inside into an empty bathroom or stairwell to enjoy your call. Thank you. Notification of an incoming call is to be by vibration. (I am going to go ahead and hold on to this dream.)

You can stay “miked.” Any wire is to be worn under your clothes, and ideally any ear piece is to be worn in only one ear, or stored behind the neck.

University Grooming Etiquette Schedule Management Business Social Etiquette Lessons

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by Harold Almon

In business, arrive “Just in time” for any appointment you intend to keep. You can get there ten minutes early, and then walk around the block.

Organize your thoughts beforehand. Send business information in advance of a meeting where practical. Be prepared to wait up to ten minutes after the time specified to be seen. Telephone whenever being late is unavoidable. Apologize for a missed appointment mischance. The apology must be accepted with as much calm as can be mustered. Suggest another appointment.

In social life, arrive "Just in time" for any event you plan to attend, whatever "On time" means, in your community. For an informal party at a private home, a business party, or for a large or small dance, arrive very close to the time specified (in descending order of importance.)

Manage your daily schedule by using a portable organizer; it can be new school, a smart telephone. It may be old school, a sleek leather system organizer full of crisp visiting and business cards with color dividers, or a spiral planner.

It could be a laptop or notebook PC for salaried workers, workers on flex time and independent business people.

A daily schedule might be managed by using a computer-generated calendar, a loose-leaf sheet calendar, or by sharing a multi-person calendar.


Things to do can be spoken in a pocketsize tape recorder or listed on a note pad and transcribed later.

Ask for one or more of these as a present and/or as a benefit to allow you to provide better service in your employment.

University Grooming Etiquette Get a Public Partner Business Social Etiquette Lessons

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Avoid attempting to master business-social etiquette alone. Get a public partner. Share social information with this person. Share the process. Get, and provide, feedback.

In business, it is not a matter of being good enough or knowing your stuff. It is a matter of how well you play, and how you will play at the next level.

Attend social events with your partner. Where possible, this person is to be of the opposite sex. After five o'clock, the public partner for a married person is to be his or her spouse. Your public partner need not be a romantic interest. He or she may be retained long after any romance is over.

Share games. If you are lucky, your partner will know how to play golf, tennis, racket ball, and cards. He or she will have been to a museum, theater, opera, on a cruise, or on an away trip, at least once.

Share parties. If luckier still, your partner will know how to dine: attend a business social party, share social dining etiquette polished table manners lessons for college and university students. Attend dinners sponsored by organizations, practice dining skills and rehearse business dining etiquette. A prerequisite to this know how to engage in table talk, not drink or talk too much, and know how to dance.

Learn, and agree on, the rules of social behavior. Be trustworthy.

Give back, volunteer. Join a committee. Accept an appointment to a board. Join an association. Take an academic class. It is in one of these environments a partner of choice will be most evident doing social polishing: making mistakes where it counts the least, practicing social graces, and being firm and considerate.

Your social partner will be aware that there is another level to life, and another side to moving forward. Say thank you often. Practice presentations on each other. Share heroes and spotlights.

A Promotional Partner

Get a promotional partner: someone with whom you seek the same target market but with whom you are not in direct competition.

Share precious resources with this person.

Pool advertising budgets.

Share advertising spots.

Swap mailing lists.

Share display space.

Sell the experience.

Insert promotional advertising items.

Bundle products and services.

Co-sponsor events.

Share public exposure.

Share literature in racks in waiting areas.

Each can be an ideal solution to maximizing advertising dollars.

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Individual Student Etiquette Lesson Packages

# 40 Minute Lessons $ Per Person/ Investment
16  $ 450.00   
 8  $ 250.00      
 4  $ 150.00       
 2  $ 200.00  *New Student Special
 2  $ 100.00      

Group Class Etiquette Lessons and Life Skills Packages
# of  40 Minute Lessons $ Per Person/ Investment
12  $  114       
 8   $   84                      
 4   $   44       
 2   $   32            
 2   $   16  Student rate     Room cap $ 1 K
 1   $   19             
Unlimited   $  129  or *Free for 4 Weeks with New Student Special

Community Resident Individual Non Student University Etiquette Lesson Packages
# of 40 Minute Lessons $ Per Person/ Investment
16  $  950.00       
 8   $  400.00   
 4   $  250.00         
 2   $  400.00 + Community Resident New Student Special
 2   $  150.00 
1 40 Minute Shopping Tour    $ 25 per person or couple
4 Shopping Tours in 4 Weeks $ 50 per person 
*1 Free Shopping Tour with New Student Special  On going group classes unlimited $ 250.00 per semester per person

Individual Student Etiquette Lesson Packages

#Classes  # of 40 Minute Lessons $ Per Person/ Investment
Eight   16  $ 450.00   
Four      8  $ 250.00      
Two       4  $ 150.00       
One        2  $ 200.00  Student Newcomers Class
One        2  $ 100.00      

Group Class Life Skills Etiquette Lesson Packages
# of  40 Minute Lessons $ Per Person/ Investment
Per card
Twelve    $  114      
Eight       $   84                      
Four        $   44       
Two         $   32            
Two         $   16  Student rate
One         $   19             
Unlimited   $  129 for 4 Weeks

Community Resident Individual Non Student Etiquette Lesson Packages
# Classes  # of 40 Minute Lessons $ Per Person/ Investment
Eight  16  $   950.00       
Four    8   $  400.00   
Two     4   $  250.00         
One     2   $  400.00 Community Resident Newcomers Class
One     2   $  150.00    

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Individual Student Etiquette Lesson Packages

#Classes  # of 40 Minute Lessons $ Per Person/ Investment
Eight    16  $ 450.00      -25
Four           8  $ 250.00      
Two            4  $ 150.00       
One             2  $ 100.00      

Group Class Life Skills Etiquette Lesson Packages
# of  40 Minute Lessons $ Per Person/ Investment
Per card
Twelve       $    114      
Eight         $    84            -10.5         
Four           $    44             -11
Two             $    32            
Two             $    16  Student rate
One              $    19             
Unlimited $   129 for 4 Weeks

Community Resident Individual Non Student Etiquette Lesson Packages
# Classes  # of 40 Minute Lessons $ Per Person/ Investment
Eight   16   $  950.00       
Four     8   $ 400.00   - 50
Two       4   $ 250.00         
One        2   $ 150.00        

45 Minute Shopping Tours      Unlimited Shopping Tours for 4 Weeks
$ 12 per person or couple         $ 45 per person

Rate Sheet Be at Ease School of Etiquette Professional and Graduate University Etiquette

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512 821-2699

Individual Student Etiquette Lesson Packages

#Classes  # of 40 Minute Lessons $ Per Person/ Investment
Eight      16  $ 450.00   
Four         8  $ 250.00      
Two          4  $ 150.00       
One          2  $ 200.00  Student Newcomers Class
One          2  $ 100.00      

Group Class Life Skills Etiquette Lesson Packages
# of  40 Minute Lessons $ Per Person/ Investment
Per card
Twelve        $  114        
Eight           $   84                      
Four            $   44       
Two             $   32            
Two             $   16  Student rate
One              $   19             
Unlimited   $  129 for 4 Weeks

Community Resident Individual Non Student Etiquette Lesson Packages
# Classes  # of 40 Minute Lessons $ Per Person/ Investment
Eight     16  $   950.00       
Four       8   $  400.00   
Two        4   $  250.00         
One        2   $  400.00 Community Resident Newcomers Class
One        2   $  150.00        

45 Minute Shopping Tours    Unlimited Shopping Tours for 4 Weeks
$ 12 per person or couple      $ 45 per person

Business Cards Two That You Should Have University Etiquette Outclass the Competition

Outclass the Competition
by Harold Almon baesoe.com

If you can get a five digit zip code from a business card. It is one of the four errors on it.


The average business card has four errors on it. Each has a direct economic etiquette impact. If a business card, has a zip +4, now there is one less error than before. Either way, trust me about the other three.


Business cards, two that you should have.  Understand the impact. 


Practice Etiquette Designing and Using Business Cards  Professionals and Graduate University Etiquette  Outclass the competition. There is a class for that, daily by appointment or a 1st Monday Free Class. Gratuities accepted. Evenbrite: School of Etiquette

Men's Valentine's Day Etiquette 2016 Sunday Begins on Friday

Over the Counter Etiquette

by Harold Almon baesoe.com

Be at Ease School of Etiquette Austin

Valentines Day is Sunday. Flowers are to be sent to work on Friday. Who is she going to show her bouquet to? And ..gush about you to? (No it does not have to be a dozen. It can be a single red rose, you may follow up with ones you have waiting for her at home. Monday, she will tell them so.)

There can be dark chocolates, enough for her to share with folks at the office.) and a few to share with you.

There may be a card that on the front side says, “From Your Valentine:” or “For my Valentine.” On the inside it can say, “ I….. You. Honor, Appreciate, Thank, Crave, and Love. - Insert word at will. I do." Etiquette: Happy Valentines Day can be written on the back of the card, the card is to go inside an envelope: "your name" can go on the flap.

Saturday: Balloons could be tied at the door with a note that says, “Love lives within.” This night

You could run a bubble bath: if she never takes it.

download a movie, something she would like.

There is to be dinner in a restaurant. It is she who will want to show off her peacock (you). Etiquette: her seat is to be so she can see the front door and the center of the room, and vice versa. Get a paper copy of the menu that you both can sign, date, and title, Dinner with my Valentine. 

Sunday -There is to be Breakfast in bed on a tray.  The menu: Juice and something sparkling, it can be in the juice, Crescents, Cream Cheese and fruit with berries and Crème, – on a tray. Oh yes and coffee, French Vanilla. – and chocolate chips. A menu card may list the courses for her. A rose is to go in a bud vase or to be lain across the tray:  Etiquette: A tray for someone is to have a place mat on it - It can be made of paper, ( like at Jacks.)

There is to be time to sleep in. – to cuddle outside of the bed, - and to take that walk ‘cause you promised.

There is to be food from a restaurant ordered in (the restaurant will need the seats, or a rest from yesterday.) It can be a picnic on the floor in front of the TV: I would say fireplace,- and maybe, but this too is a movie down load night.

Food: Your caterer can be a local restaurant or grocery store. It can be a Coupon Dinner for Two… Served on a plate. Cut in half. There is to be something to drink with that. Blanc de Blanc, or it can be "Virgin."

There is to be dessert: A Milk shake with White Chocolate & Raspberries, in a glass & Coffee, in a cup: & Cherry almond Biscotti. You get my drift.

Candles: Candle are to be Red and White. Wicks are to be pre-lit, put out, and then ready to be lit again, or  the batteries are to be new, where safety is an issue. 

Rose pedals will be needed for her place setting along with something small and stuffed. For now, establish a cover: a place setting for one. Then make another. – Next to each place setting you may place a piece of chocolate, and a  menu card you made for a memento. (Sign this one too at the end of the night.) 

There is to be rose pedals placed inside the pillow, so that when laundry is done, the day is remembered.

There is to be a mint- what’s next goes best without bad breath…

There is to be sleep…write a note, it could say, “You should be sleepy, I have loved and wore you out all day.

This year Valentines Day is Sunday.  Take the cell. – Call someone, or write a note by hand; it is the day you get to say,

For My Valentine

You should know

I would defy law
stay away from war

and risk death by an Emperor

for the privilege of marrying you (again.)

Happy Valentines Day

Did I tell you

I would give up war

for the opportunity

of marrying you -

I do.

It is how the day got started, if the rumors are true.

Set the stage, a little each day. Remember your rule and role. You are still a prince. Practice.  Practice. V day begins on Friday. 

Get a Better Windsor Tie Knot Length and Look Tying Ties to Men's Business Suits Men's Business Dress Etiquette Professional & University Etiquette

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by Harold Almon baesoe.com
Be at Ease School of Etiquette Austin

A Full Windsor knot is best suited with a spread collar and for when you are short: need a good knot and less tie. Short form:

1. Wrap the tie around itself up through and down to back.

2. Switch hands. Then other side up through and down to back.

3. Next, go around, up through to the front, in the hole, and then down.

Long form:

1. Wrap the larger end around the back of the smaller end, and then to the front. Hold it at the wrap around point (high up near your neck.)

2. Flip the larger end over the wrapped point and pull it to the back. Switch hands.

3. Pull the larger end tight. Then, flip it up and back through the top area, to the back.

4. Now wrap the larger end around the front to the back of the smaller end.

5. Flip it up and through to the front. Then put the tip through the noose at the front top opening.

6. Pull the larger end through the knot, while holding the knot at the bottom. Check the bottom, the split angles at the side are to meet, or try again, or if the back end of your tie is too high – take a class.

7. Now finesse that knot. Use the other hand to pull and shape the tie knot by pulling the large end of the tie. Place a dimple in the center of the tie right below the knot or remove it with your fingers. (Grab the sides of it at the top and turn them either in or out.) Once you can tie a knot practice tying a tie knot better.

8. Angle the bottom of the knot a bit upwards towards your chin. Pretend that it just does not matter.

There is a knot called the Pratt Shelby. It looks like a Windsor in its finish. If provides for extra length, if you have need of it. It is suited for when you are husky or tall: nice looking knot, more tie.


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