PROFESSIONAL ETIQUETTE:

Professional etiquette is an unwritten code of conduct regarding the interactions among the members in a business setting. When proper professional etiquette is used, all involved are able to feel more comfortable, and things tend to flow more smoothlyThere’s so many people in the work place who are frankly clueless about how to write good emails. They also are horrible at handling themselves in a formal or professional setting and are bad communicators. Communication is critical in so many corners of life. Courses in our schools implementing professional work etiquette would be extremely beneficial. It can be as simple as writing a thank you card after a job interview to using proper notation in a professional correspondence.

My grandmother Gloria “Go-Go” Pilkington was a stickler for hats indoors. If you came in with a hat on she’d stare you down and by all means you better take that hat off. If you wore a hat to the dinner table? Forget it. I can only imagine her in today’s iphone age. If she saw an iphone at the table I think it would be the end of all things. Point is, Go-Go was right. We’ve lost our connection to manners and common etiquette. I think above all else they teach us to respect each others and ourselves. If we show our appreciation for each other in formal and informal settings it brings positive qualities out of us all. Positive reinforcement and support is an essential human need. Professional etiquette and Manners are the subtext of this. Particularly in the last few decades we have lost some of our connection to common etiquette. Schools should start making more of an effort to emphasize manners so that our future generations revitalize them. Go-Go was right.