As important as one’s attire and presentation is to any business interaction, the exchange of business cards is just as important and far from routine, particularly when interacting with clients and colleagues of other cultures. The business card after all represents you long after the physical meeting has taken place and is integral to the [...]
NBC’s Today Show recently featured five phone numbers that they state will change your life. Here’s one that should be programmed into your cell (if it does not have internet capabilities) for those instances where you need information and you’re not close enough to a computer: Auburn University’s Foy Information Line, 334-844-4244
Students at Auburn University in [...]
Travel Mole reports on a new study by PricewaterhouseCoopers that found that 34 new hotel brands were launched from January to October of last year. Of these new brands, 18 are luxury hotels including Baccarat Hotels and Resorts by Starwood Capital Group whose first Baccarat hotel in Wailea, Hawaii, is expected to open in 2010, with others to follow in the Caribbean, [...]
Kwintessential shares the story of how a linguistic and rather X-rated mistake may have proven to be a good omen for the Croatian team at the Euro 2008 finals. Read on …
In case you missed it last night, CBS 60 Minutes had this segment about the new generation of “millennials”, born between 1980 and 1995, exploring their entry and impact in the workplace. Briefly featured was the Motivation Show and the incentives industry, tied to the fact that these employees expect to be praised, thanked, and [...]
MattMacL shares some great tips on his Working Abroad blog on how to present to audiences whose first language is not English. These include adapting your language to the audience and cutting out idioms. He also highlights the pitfalls that may exist:
The tendency is to think that one can go into a presentation without having [...]
It is a subject we have explored in the past: in which countries does one tip and how much. On a recent trip to Costa Rica, I asked how much a tour guide would earn in tips if leading a group on a full-day tour. When told the amount I naturally asked if that figure [...]
Michael Chaffin of *Star In The Margin shares an example of how a United Airlines pilot engages with his passengers and delivers something completely unexpected …
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