Top tips on business etiquette
19.05.2006, 07:12
Under-estimating the impact of your behaviour in business situations could mean the difference between clinching that important sale or losing out to your competitors.
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Often behaviour which is perceived as disrespectful or rude is completely unintentional - so make sure you don't send out the wrong signals by following these business etiquette rules:
How To Serve Two Masters
02.05.2006, 18:51
Working for one company while setting up a competing enterprise is a tricky business. As an employee, you have a legal obligation to do the job you are being paid for and not to compete against your employer.
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You may make plans for your business, provided you do it on your own time. You can lease office space, arrange financing, have business cards printed, meet with colleagues involved in the new venture (even if they're fellow employees) and work on a business plan. But the more you do for your own business while you're still on someone else's payroll, the worse it looks if you are challenged.
Business Women’s Forum offers tips on etiquette
03.04.2006, 15:31
Technology and lifestyle changes have rewritten some rules of business etiquette.
"You don’t have to wait for everyone to be served" before beginning to eat at a business meal, said Sandy Sipe, director of sales and marketing for Radisson Penn Harris Hotel.
When the majority of the people at the table have been served — six out of ten for example — start to eat, Sipe told a group of about 175 women Wednesday at the Business Women’s Forum at the Radisson.
Special diets stemming from health or vegetarian preferences can slow delivery of meals, Sipe said. As a vegetarian herself, she usually tells fellow diners to "go ahead and eat. Don’t let your food get cold."
Aggie 'Apprentice' star gives tips on business
14.04.2005, 08:13
A Texas A&M University graduate who got a taste of celebrity last year competing on the NBC reality show The Apprentice returned to campus Wednesday, offering women advice on how to succeed in business.
Amy Henry, who ended up being one of the show’s three finalists to compete for a job working for real estate tycoon Donald Trump, told a crowd of about 90 the most important lesson she learned on the show.
"Sometimes being competent is not enough," Henry, 31, said of the key to success in business. "It takes building relationships, networking and speaking up and bragging to make yourself known."