Hany Khaled ۥۥ

02/01/2018

I will seek elegance rather than luxury, refinement rather than fashion. I will seek to be worthy more than respectable, wealthy and not rich. I will study hard, think quietly, talk gently, and act frankly. I will listen to stars and birds, babies and sages, with an open heart. I will bear all things cheerfully, do all things bravely await occasions and hurry never. In a word I will let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common.
Smiles...

14/12/2017

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03/12/2017

Christmas Card Etiquette.

Sending Christmas cards should be easy, but so many of us get it wrong year after year, and in some cases, this can cause serious rifts with friends and family. It’s always worth getting organised and thinking carefully about card sending etiquette. It’s often the little things that can make a big difference, so watch out!
1) Get organised and don’t be late. This not only looks lazy but can also make the recipient feel unvalued. So make sure you’re organised. Work out your card sending list in November – our service allows you to build one in advance which can save you time – and check when last postage is for Christmas. Aim to be at least a couple of weeks ahead of that and make sure you include a return address so they can send you one back.
2) Don’t send cards to everyone. As tempting as it might be, you don’t need to send a Christmas card to everyone who’s friends with you on Facebook! Receiving a card from someone you don’t really know can make you feel awkward. But by a similar token, make sure you’re consistent with who you send to – if you plan to send cards to work colleagues, for example, then whatever you do don’t exclude anyone in your department or office, and the same goes for relatives or friendship groups.

Susie Wilson
Etiquette Expert
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25/11/2017

Susie Wilson is still teaching young to mind manners.
We love that!

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20/11/2017

Bad networking etiquette

Here are some indicators that you’re doing networking all wrong:
When you meet someone new, you talk more about yourself than you ask questions.
You ask for favours more than you offer them.
You comment on other people’s blogs only to get others to read your blog.
Your last five tweets were about you.
You haven’t picked up the phone to connect with someone new in over a month.
You find yourself getting jealous at others’ success.
You try to get influencers to pity you instead of wooing them.
You put yourself down in the company of others.
No one asks for your business card or contact info ever. (You didn’t ask for anyone’s, either.)
The only way you can grab people’s attention is by awkwardly forcing yourself into a conversation.
The paradox of influence is that those who have it can easily get more, and those that lack it struggle to gain momentum.

The same can be said for friendship. Those who need friends struggle to find them, and those that can make friends have an abundance of them.

11/11/2017

Betrayal in business Have you ever been betrayed, lied to, by a company or colleague or both?

11/11/2017

Poise
By Susie Wilson, Leading Etiquette Expert. ——————————————————-
When eating, bring the fork or spoon to the mouth, rather than lowering the head towards the food. Bring the food promptly to the mouth and do not gesticulate with the knife and fork. ————————————
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09/11/2017

Too often we make our world too complex and overwhelming by thinking we have to demonstrate grandiose gestures. Give extravagant gifts . Make significant financial donations. Feed all of the starving world. Host the BEST party EVER.

We need to think simply. There are plentiful opportunities every day to make a tremendous impact on those around us by just being kind. By doing the nice little things.
Hold the door open for the person behind you. Smile.

Say hello. Stop and listen to the answer to “How are you?” Pay a compliment. Make a phone call. Send a hand-written note. Drop off a little treat for no reason. Send a “thinking of you today” text or e-mail.

Simple kindness goes a long, long, way in this world.

Susie Wilson

ETIQUETTE
Correspondence
Social Graces
Table Manners
Dress Codes
Formal Events
International Etiquette

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07/11/2017

Social capital is the glue that holds a community together; it is the shared knowledge, understanding, skills and offers of help needed to achieve shared goals, or help someone solve a problem.

Norms, Etiquette and Policies ....,

Lack of etiquette weakens sociability and even destroys communities or practice. For some etiquette is not just nice to have, it is necessary. Different types of technology require different forms of etiquette.
A short abrupt comment is expected in instant messaging but it may be interpreted differently in email.

Emotional affordances, syntax and semantics also vary across technology and new technologies may challenge previously accepted norms.

With such a wide range of communications software now available to users etiquette is challenged when users move from one type to another. It’s particularly easy to forget more subtle differences between the technologies.

07/11/2017

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06/11/2017

Etiquette is an art—the art of doing and saying the correct thing at the correct time—the art of being able to hold oneself always in hand, no matter how exacting the circumstance. And like music or painting or writing, the more you study it, the more you apply yourself to its principles, the more perfectly your own character is molded.

Etiquette, after all, is not the finished work, but merely a tool that opens the portals to a broader life, to a greater social happiness
Through its influence we are brought into close companionship with the really worth-while minds of our day. By faithful constancy to its rules we gradually mold our characters until, in our outward dignity and charm, the world reads and understands our ideals.

There is in every human nature the desire for social happiness—which is, frankly, in other words, the desire so to impress by one's manner that one will be welcome and respected wherever one chances to be. And it is only by adhering to the fundamental laws of good society that this social happiness can ever be attained.

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03/11/2017

WHAT MANNERS WILL DO FOR YOU....

Every day you come into contact with people, with strangers, who judge you by what you do and say. They go away carrying an impression of you—and it depends upon your manners whether it is a good impression or a bad impression.

It is a mistake to think that good manners are meant for the elaborate ball room or for the formal dinner. Society is not necessarily too formal or too "showy." Society implies also that society of fellow-men you meet every day of the year people you come into contact with in the social and business worlds. And in order to make contact with these people agreeable and pleasant, in order to win the admiration and respect of strangers, in order to avoid embarrassment and humiliation because of bad blunders at most conspicuous moments, it is essential to know what is right and what is wrong.
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Good manners will enable you to be easy and graceful at all times. You will be able to mingle with the most cultured people and be perfectly at ease. You will lose all self-consciousness, all timidity. And instead you will become dignified, well-poised, calm. Instinctively people will respect you; in business and in society you will find yourself welcomed and admired.