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"The Essential Guide to Business Etiquette, a practical guide for interacting effectively with colleagues, customers, and business associates, details the social skills necessary to ensure personal and professional success. The Essential Guide to Business Etiquette offers an invaluable and handy reference for up-and-comers and established managers alike, as well as for students of communication and organizational culture."--Jacket.
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"Esquire editor and Entrepreneur etiquette columnist Ross McCammon delivers a funny and authoritative guide that provides the advice you really need to be confident and authentic at work, even when you have no idea what's going on. Ten years ago, before he got a job at Esquire magazine and way before he became the etiquette columnist at Entrepreneur magazine, Ross McCammon, editor at an in-flight magazine, was staring out a second-floor window at...
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When do you address correspondents by their first names over email? Need a refresher on the proper format for a business letter? Or perhaps a cram-course on how business is conducted in a particular foreign country? Now, all your workplace questions can be found in one convenient source from the most trusted name in reference. The Office Professional's Guide takes you through office basics (frequently misspelled words; proper telephone, fax, and email...
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How should you balance social media and your job? What's the best way to ask for a raise? Who should pick up the tab for a business lunch? In this program, both business experts and a focus group of young professionals advise viewers on the proper way to conduct themselves in different types of work-related situations. Among the many topics covered are nonverbal communication and "personal space," handling dissatisfied callers, when and how to interrupt...
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Being well dressed is only one part of presenting a good workplace image ... what if you've done your best to maintain fast-track skills and are then asked to perform a menial task? This program guides viewers through a breakdown of just what constitutes career-appropriate demeanor. With an emphasis on having a good attitude, the video discusses handling mistakes, determining dress codes, staying abreast of industry trends, workspace appearance, and...
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India is now a major player in the economic market. This video answers some of the important questions that arise as we seek to develop ties in this country. Among those addressed are: What are the advantages of understanding our Indian neighbors? What role does religion play in communication in India? Are the issues of equality or inequality to be observed? What aspects of protocol are important? What are the common business practices? The presenter...
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With the aid of a specially developed model 'The 5 C's Model' expert authors demonstrate how to get your communications right internationally and ensure that meetings, both face-to-face and virtual, go according to plan. Barry Tomalin and Mike Nicks offer strategies and tactics for getting people from different countries on your side, and detailing the knowledge you need to make the right impression and avoid giving offence. The authors provide a...
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"Studies have shown that 93 percent of what is believed about people in business is based upon visual messages, not on credentials or on the content of conversation. An invaluable resource for today's job market, How to Gain the Professional Edge, Second Edition helps readers answer a multitude of questions about behavior, attitude, and image to improve professionalism and open doors to advancement and career success. This edition has been expanded...
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If bullying is not appropriately managed, a culture of fear can become endemic in an organization. Fortunately, this negative culture can be turned around by educating staff, laying down clear procedures to report incidents of intimidation, and by the presence of empathetic managers who act quickly to resolve problems. Using dramatized scenes and expert interviews, this program explores strategies to manage and prevent bullying in the workplace, and...
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Because career success can depend just as much on getting along with colleagues as it does on job knowledge, this program addresses the issues that most frequently come up when working in groups. Through input from human resources reps, viewers learn how to handle conflict, gossip, and office politics, determine the types of information that should and should not be shared with their supervisors, and understand their organization's chain of command....
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As a Lady Would Say is every woman s guide to being delicate in an indelicate world of awkward situations, difficult people, and thorny social dynamics. Sheryl Shade s clever cataloging of real-world scenarios is a humorous look at how a lady should respond in any number of life s irksome situations, along with a guide to which words should never leave her mouth.
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