Tip Sheet: Business And Dining Etiquette
Tip Sheet: Business and Dining Etiquette
This post and any other later posts labeled as tips sheet come from a college website I found while searching around about jobs. I’m bringing it to you all to save you the hassle. Enjoy!
How you conduct yourself and treat others in a business or dining setting speaks strongly of who you are as a professional. Research worldwide tips and strategies before traveling as different cultures have different protocols.
General Tips
Use titles (Mr. Ms. Dr.), not first names until instructed to do so.
Be on time or 5-15 minutes early. Earlier than that can be awkward and invasive.
Prepare for meeting, developing an agenda if you are leading.
Do not interrupt meeting agendas, but in a timely manner, be confident in concisely sharing on-topic ideas/opinions.
Do not get intoxicated at work functions.
Do not use profanity or tell off-colored jokes.
Do not engage in office gossip.
Bring a positive attitude and leave personal drama at home.
Do not air work-related frustrations via social media (e.g. These people make me sick. #ISITFRIDAYYET)
How to Approach a Group
Present yourself with confidence.
Smile and extend dominant hand.
State your name (and company).
Know how to introduce yourself (and company) in 15 to 30 seconds.
Avoid “closed” triads: two people facing shoulder to shoulder are likely having a private conversation.
Do not fold your arms or put them in your pockets.
Greetings
Hi, Hey, Yo, What’s up?, What’s going on? are not appropriate.
Hello is appropriate.
Introducing Yourself
It is your duty to introduce yourself.
Look people in the eyes and smile in order to seem confident and approachable.
Name tags should be placed high on right shoulder.
When should you introduce yourself?
When you realize someone does not recognize you.
When attending a business or social gathering.
When seated next to someone.
When person introducing you forgets your name.
When it is a friend of a friend whom you are talking to.
Introducing Others
Use proper titles when introducing others.
Omit titles when introducing people of same rank and position.
Never introduce a co-worker/superior by first name.
Introduce person lowest on the totem pole to the one highest.
The name of the person of greater authority is spoken first.
This means you look at the most “important person” and say, “Ms. Important, I would like to introduce you to Mr. Student, an intern in our IT department. Mr. Student, this is Mr. Important, the director of technical marketing.”
When dealing with people outside the company, clients are more important than company employees, and hiring managers are more important than job seekers.
If you are seated while being introduced, stand to shake hands.
Have a firm handshake, but avoid death grips.
Tell something about the person whom you introduce.
During the Conservation
Learn how to make small talk.
Be current on domestic and international events. If you’re not and the topic is brought up, say something along the lines of “I’m not familiar with the topic but I would enjoy learning more about it.”
Know what events impact your company or client’s.
Ask questions that focus on other person, not you.
Do not interrupt and/or finish people’s sentences.
Avoid conversations about health or diet habits, cost of things, personal life, gossip, off-color jokes and controversial issues.
Don’t gaze around room in a conversation—it’s rude and makes other person feel insignificant.
Do not touch others unless you know them well.
Ending a Conversation
Do not just walk away if you see someone more interesting— ALWAYS make a closing statement before moving on:
“Please excuse me. It was nice talking with you.”
“It was really a pleasure to meet you. I look forward to seeing you again soon.”
“I enjoyed talking with you. I hope to see you soon.”
Summarize, “Oh, it looks like you have a fascinating job and I wish you good luck on your project.”
If graceful disengagement doesn’t work, be more direct: “I see it is really getting late and I really must go,” then back up physically. As a last result, say a parting statement while you are shaking hands and saying good-bye.
Business Cards
Always have enough and carry in a case.
Should not be wrinkled, written on, outdated or dirty.
Present the card with the print facing the recipient.
Your name should be the largest print on the card.
Don’t write on business cards in front of others.
Don’t exchange business cards while dining.
Never pass them out like you are dealing cards.
It is polite to comment on card before putting it away rather than immediately stashing it in a pocket without looking at it
If someone offers you their business card, offer yours in return
Before offering your business card, first say, “May I give you my card?”
Do not force your card on anyone or offer it too early in a conversation
Let senior executives ask for your card. Do not offer it to them.
Meetings/Networking Events
It is polite to offer to pay if asked to a lunch/dinner meeting. However, whoever extends the invitation typically pays.
Know why you are attending and who you want to meet.
Bring business cards; Remember you represent your company.
Do not carry a bag or notebook that fills your hands.
Step to the right when you enter room, pausing to first observe.
Greet hosts first, if possible but do not monopolize their time.
Introduce yourself to others, not just talking to people you know.
Do not immediately head for the bar or food; don’t go hungry.
Avoid foods that are messy or can’t be eaten in one bite.
Hold food or drink in left hand to leave right hand open.
Write a thank-you note within 24 hours.
Work Relationships:
Co-workers
Cooperate and develop a relationship of mutual support.
Focus on positive qualities and potential of co-workers (strengths, not weaknesses).
Be friendly, but do not join a clique.
Spend time observing how people act, who performs well and who takes a positive view toward the job and organization.
Beware of the gripers and avoid office gossip.
Do not talk about co-workers behind their backs.
Voice concerns, challenges and accomplishments.
Remember that a peer may someday be your boss or you his.
Be nice, polite and friendly to everyone, including individuals who work outside of your department.
Observe organization’s gift giving policy and be discreet when exchanging gifts if only exchanging with a few coworkers. Work Relationships:
Supervisors
Approach tasks with a willing attitude.
Enthusiastically complete “grunt” assignments.
Demonstrate poise and maturity in everything you do.
Ensure quality work is completed on-time.
Supervisors are your ally, not your enemy.
Supervisors train and develop; they aren’t best friends.
Do not ask supervisor for personal and financial advice.
Cell Phones
Turn your phone off during meetings.
Invest in a watch so you don’t check phone for time.
Avoid answering in restaurants. If expecting important call, let those you are dining with know, and leave table to answer.
In public, be aware of voice volume and move at least two arm lengths away from those around you (or out of the room).
The people you are with should take precedence over calls.
If you expect a call that can’t be postponed, alert your companions ahead of time.
Public phone conversations are not private.
Email Etiquette
Craft a compelling subject line.
Treat email like a business letter; always be professional.
Keep it short and simple.
Use proper spelling, grammar and punctuation.
Never send an email when you’re angry.
Email is NOT confidential and can be forwarded.
Read it and check your spelling before sending it.
Confirm attachment you intended to attach is attached.
Answer an email within 24 hours.
General Dining Etiquette
Do not order foods that are eaten with your hands.
Pass food from left to right (counterclockwise).
If asked for the salt or pepper, pass both.
Never season food before tasting it.
Food is served from the left, dishes removed from the right.
Butters, spreads or dips should be transferred to your serving dish before spreading or eating.
Do not ask for a “to-go box” unless it is an informal situation.
For hard to scoop items, use bread, not your finger, to push items onto fork.
If hot food is burning mouth, discretely drink something cool.
Napkins belong in your lap.
If you leave table, loosely fold your napkin (do NOT refold your napkin or wad it up) and place it beside your dinner plate.
Meeting materials or briefcases should be left under your chair until it is time to discuss business.
Do not ask to taste or offer to let others taste your food.
Do not blow nose at the table. Politely excuse yourself.
Casual Dining Exceptions
You may order foods that are eaten with your hands.
When sharing chips and salsa, you don’t have to transfer salsa to your plate, but do not double dip.
Leaving a Tip
Fifteen to 20 percent of the bill total is customary, but for exemplary service, a greater percentage is accepted.
For poor service, ask to speak to the manager; still tip.
Place Setting Tips
General rule: use silverware from outside in as meal progresses.
When finished, do not push plate away. Instead place fork and knife across the center of the plate, handles to the right.
Between bites, your fork and knife are placed on the plate, handles to the right, not touching the table.
1. Napkin
2. Salad Fork
3. Dinner fork
4. Dessert Utensil
5. Dinner Plate
6. Dinner Knife
7. Teaspoon
8. Bread Plate
9. Bitter Knife
10. Water glass
11. Wine Glass
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Isaiah 43:19
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O na rĩu nĩũratuĩka, na nĩũkũhota kũwona!
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ĩtwĩkanĩrie kũu werũinĩ
na ndũme njũũĩ igĩe kuo.
INHERITED DEPRAVITY? BY STEVE FINNELL
Do all men inherit guilt from the sin of Adam? Does the fact that Adam sinned mean all of his descendents are born depraved? Many denominations teach that as facts. Those denominations who baptize unbelieving infants do that because they believe infants are born guilty of Adam’s sin.
The Westminster Confession
CHAPTER 6
Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of
the Punishment thereof.
I. Our first parents, begin seduced by the subtlety and temptations of Satan, sinned in eating the forbidden fruit. This their sin God was pleased, according to his wise and holy counsel, to permit, having purposed to order it to his own glory.
II. By this sin they fell from their original righteousness and communion with God, and so became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in all the faculties and parts of soul and body.
III. They being the root of mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed, and the same death in sin and corrupted nature conveyed to all their posterity, descending from them by original generation.
IV. From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions.
V. This corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated; and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both itself, and all the motions thereof, are truly and properly sin.
VI. Every sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto, doth, in its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner, whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God, and curse of the law, and so made subject to death, with all miseries spiritual, temporal, and eternal.
The doctrine of Inherited/Total Depravity has been adopted by many denominational churches due to the writings of Augustine of Hippo (AD 354-430 and John Calvin (1509-1564)
Those who believe the false doctrine of Original Sin say all men are sinners at conception.
There are no references in Scripture that state men need to be forgiven for Adam’s sin or that men inherited Adam’s guilt.
If all men are born totally depraved how did Moses serve God? Moses did not live under grace. Moses did not receive Christian baptism as an unbelieving infant.
Was Abraham totally depraved at conception? Genesis 18:19 since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and in him all nations of the earth will be blessed? 19 For I have chosen him, so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring upon Abraham was was spoken about him.“ (NASB)
Questions: How it possible that God would chose Abraham if he was totally corrupt at conception? How could Abraham’s children and household do righteous acts and justice if they were totally defiled and only inclined to do evil?
The doctrine of Original Sin/Inherited Sin and Total Depravity are not found in the Bible, they only written in man-made creed books.
Was Noah guilty of sin at conception rendering him totally depraved? Genesis 6:8-9 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. 9 These are the records of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.(NASB)
Did Noah trick God into thinking that he was a righteous man? No, God cannot be deceived, however, men can be deceived into believing the false doctrine of Original Sin, Totally Depravity and Inherited Depravity.
Was Job a guilty of Adam’s sin at conception? Was Job not capable of resisting evil? Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless, upright, fearing God and turning away from evil.(NASB)
Was the first Gentile convert to Christianity a totally depraved sinner at conception? No. Acts 10:1-2 Now there was a man at Caesarea named Cornelius, centurion of what was called the Italian cohort, 2 a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, and gave many alms to the Jewish people and prayed to God continually.(NASB)
Inherited Depravity is a man-made doctrine found in denominational creed books. Original Sin/Inherited Sin is not found in the Bible.
Atheist and nonbeliever are not born evil. Many atheist and non believers do good works.
All men sin and are guilty of their own sins. No person has inherited sin from Adam.
All men need a Savior because of their sin, not because of Adam’s sin.
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God’s terms for pardon from sin. Faith: John 3:16, Repentance: Acts 2:38, Acts 3:19, Confession: Romans 10:9, Immersion in Water: Mark 16:16, 1 Peter 3:21, Acts 22:16
Mercy
by Thomas Scott
“I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God.” - Romans 12:1
There is something well calculated to keep us humble in the perpetual reference made in the Scriptures to mercy. We read of nothing granted us on the ground of merit, of nothing that comes from the hand of God as the reward of our good deeds or obtained by us as matter of desert. But the MERCY of God meets us at every point: the food we eat, the air we breathe, the garments we wear, the domestic comforts we enjoy, our civil advantages, and our religious privileges are all represented as matters of mercy – undeserved mercy.
This I say is humbling; yet it is just. Mercy must be the plea of the sinner. Mercy must spare from day to day the man who deserves to be cast into hell. Mercy must supply the daily bread of the man whose very life is forfeited to the justice of his offended creator. And as we are spared and our needs supplied, and ten thousand sources of comfort are opened to us – and not to us only but to all the sinners of our race – we may well say that “the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord,” and that “goodness and mercy have followed us all the days of our life.”
And, my brethren, it would be well for us to habituate ourselves to look at all our comforts in this light. They are continued to us in mercy, since by sinning against God we have forfeited every one of them. This would silence many a murmur and produce delightful feelings of gratitude under circumstances which excite us now to anything rather than contentment and praise. Our language would often be like that of Jeremiah: “Why should a living man complain; a man for the punishment of his sin?”
But though a most powerful argument in support of a duty like that of the text might be drawn from the consideration of the innumerable temporal mercies bestowed upon us by our gracious God, yet these are not the things to which St. Paul here alludes. He is drawing this epistle to a close, which, while it is highly practical, is also most highly doctrinal. In its commencement he exhibits, in all its awful nature, the depraved condition of the Gentile world. He then urges home upon the Jews the question whether they were at all better than the Gentiles. And having shown that they were not, he draws the melancholy conclusion that “there was no difference, for that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.”
Having thus established the universal sin and consequent condemnation of the whole human race, he proceeds to meet the grand inquiry, “How may man be just with God?” Had he remained spotless, innocent, and pure in the state wherein he was created, the answer would have been easy: he will be justified by his works, by his own acts and deeds, his constant never-failing obedience to the divine law. But when that law had been violated again and again by every child of Adam, no conclusion could possibly be clearer than that by the deeds of the law could no flesh living be justified in his sight. Justification could not, therefore, depend on the law or on merit.
The apostle then goes on to shew that though man cannot justify himself, and is consequently in a state of condemnation, he is not on that account to be shut up under despair. But he proceeds to prove that there is a righteousness imputed without works, even that righteousness which Christ has brought in, and which he has provided by his own perfect fulfilment of the law, and by his obedience unto death in our place. This is by grace; all of unmerited favor, free goodness, mere mercy. “We are justified freely by his grace.” In this righteousness we obtain a part through faith. Faith receives the record which God has given concerning his Son. Faith stretches out the hand to “receive the things that are freely given to us of God.” Faith relies on the promise, and applies in assured expectation of receiving that which it asks, and which it knows God is ready to give. So important is the grace of faith that we are said to be justified by it, and by it alone. Yet faith has in itself no merit. It is no work which will compensate for failures in other things. It only receives with firm reliance those promises and those gifts which God bestows on the sinner – of mere mercy and free grace.
Be nosy
1. What’s your sexual orientation?
2. What are you obsessed with right now?
3. Ever done any drugs?
4. What piercings do you want?
5. How many people have you kissed?
6. Describe your dream home.
7. Who are you jealous of?
8. What’s your favorite show to binge?
9. Do you watch porn?
10. Do you have a secret sideblog?
11. If you could teleport anywhere in the world right now, where would you go?
12. What’s one of your fantasies?
13. Do you have/would you get your nipples pierced?
14. How would you spend a million dollars?
15. Are you in a relationship?
16. Do you follow porn blogs?
17. Are you angry with anyone right now?
18. What tattoos do you want?
19. If you could change your name, would you? What would you change it to?
20. What is something you’re obsessed with?
21. Describe your best friend.
22. Tag someone you think is hot.
23. Who are five of your favorite bands/musical artists?
24. What are three places you want to travel?
25. Describe your perfect Friday night.
26. What’s your favorite season?
27. What’s your pet peeve?
28. Who is the funniest person you know?
29. What’s the most overrated movie?
30. Tag someone you want to talk to but have been too shy to message.
31. Do you like paper books or ebooks better?
32. If you could live in a fictional world, what world would you pick?
33. If money was no object, what would your wardrobe be like?
34. What’s your coffee order?
35. Do you have a crush on anyone?
36. Do you still have feelings for any of your exes?
37. Have any tattoos?
38. Do you drink?
39. Are you a virgin?
40. Do you have a crush on any of your mutuals?
41. How many followers do you have?
42. Describe the hottest person you know.
43. What’s your guilty pleasure?
44. Do you read erotica?
45. What’s the worst date you’ve ever been on?
46. How many people do you follow?
47. If you could marry any celebrity, who would you pick?
48. Describe your ideal partner.
49. Who do you text the most?
50. What’s your favorite kind of weather?
Shout out to the Dads who have been Friends, Fathers. Advisors. Providers.
“It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.”
— Dawn French
As Long as I am Alive, I will Live Fully. By the Grace of God.
AMEN!😊😊
I pray the person I end up with never loses their patience and gentleness with me.
So obsessed with becoming a better woman. Physically, Mentally and Emotionally.
Maen. This. This is Something.
I’m practicing non-attachment. Accepting what comes and allowing it to leave when it’s time. What’s for me will be for me effortlessly.
I am always in this twilight... Sigh.
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