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Business Etiquette for Dummies Paperback - 2008 - 2nd Edition

by Sue Fox

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This resource offers tips and advice on how to make a great first impression and maintain it, deal with bad managers and difficult personalities, craft clear and effective communication in the workplace, and much more.

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Make no mistake, etiquette is as important in business as it is in everyday life -- it's also a lot more complicated. From email and phone communications to personal interviews to adapting to corporate and international cultural differences, Business Etiquette For Dummies, 2nd Edition, keeps you on your best behavior in any business situation. This friendly, authoritative guide shows you how to develop good etiquette on the job and navigate today's diverse and complex business environment with great success. You'll get savvy tips for dressing the part, making polite conversation, minding your manners at meetings and meals, behaving at off-site events, handling ethical dilemmas, and conducting international business. You'll find out how to behave gracefully during tense negotiations, improve your communication skills, and overcome all sorts of work-related challenges. Discover how to: Make a great first impression ...

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Make no mistake, etiquette is as important in business as it is in everyday life -- it's also a lot more complicated. From email and phone communications to personal interviews to adapting to corporate and international cultural differences, Business Etiquette For Dummies, 2nd Edition, keeps you on your best behavior in any business situation.

This friendly, authoritative guide shows you how to develop good etiquette on the job and navigate today's diverse and complex business environment with great success. You'll get savvy tips for dressing the part, making polite conversation, minding your manners at meetings and meals, behaving at off-site events, handling ethical dilemmas, and conducting international business. You'll find out how to behave gracefully during tense negotiations, improve your communication skills, and overcome all sorts of work-related challenges. Discover how to:

  • Make a great first impression
  • Meet and greet with ease
  • Be a good company representative
  • Practice proper online etiquette
  • Adapt to the changing rules of etiquette
  • Deal with difficult personalities without losing your cool
  • Become a well-mannered traveler
  • Develop good relationships with your peers, staff, and superiors
  • Give compliments and offer criticism
  • Respect physical, racial, ethnic, and gender differences at work
  • Learn the difference between "casual Friday" and sloppy Saturday
  • Develop cubicle courtesy
  • Avoid conversational faux pas

Business etiquette is as important to your success as doing your job well. Read Business Etiquette For Dummies, 2nd Edition, and make no mistake.

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Good manners are important in the workplace for the same reason good manners are important anywhere: Good manners demonstrate that you possess self-control, that you are civilized, and that you care about and are capable to respecting others.

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Navigate cultural differences in meeting styles and gift-giving

The fun and easy way to say and do the right thing in all business situations

Want to be on your best business behavior? This friendly, authoritative guide shows you how to develop good etiquette on the job and successfully navigate today's culturally diverse business environment. You get savvy tips for dressing the part, making polite conversation, minding your manners at meetings and meals, behaving at off-site events, handling ethical dilemmas, and conducting international business.

Discover how to:

  • Make a great first impression

  • Practice proper online etiquette

  • Build your verbal and written skills

  • Deal with difficult personalities

  • Become a well-mannered traveler

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  • Title Business Etiquette for Dummies
  • Author Sue Fox
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher For Dummies, Hoboken, N.J
  • Publication date 2008-05-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780470147092 / 0470147091
  • Weight 1.18 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.17 x 7.37 x 0.83 in (23.29 x 18.72 x 2.11 cm)
  • Category Business / Economics / Finance
  • Library of Congress subjects Business etiquette
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008924948
  • Dewey Decimal Code 395.52

About the author

Sue Fox is the author of Etiquette For Dummies, 2nd Edition, and a professional member of the International Association of Protocol Consultants (IAPC) in Washington, D.C.

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