WORKPLACE ETIQUETTE
Cultivating Leadership Skills in the Digital Age
Leadership in the digital age requires a unique set of skills to navigate the fast-paced and evolving landscape. These skills include emotional intelligence in virtual interactions, adaptability and flexibility, tech literacy, effective communication in virtual workspaces, remote team management, data-driven decision-making, work-life balance, cybersecurity awareness, lifelong learning, and ethical leadership. Leaders who prioritize these skills will excel in driving innovation, facilitating collaboration, and adapting to digital transformation. Continuous learning and development are crucial, as technology trends and ethical considerations continue to shape the digital landscape.
These tips will help you ace virtual meetings
Video conferencing has become the norm in the workplace even after the Covid-19 pandemic. Tools such as Zoom, Google Meets, Skype, and Microsoft Teams are widely used, especially by freelancers, remote workers, and hybrid companies. However, virtual meetings have a set of rules and etiquette that people must follow. These include getting acquainted with the technology, picking a suitable background, learning when to mute and unmute, dressing appropriately, making eye contact, and placing the camera correctly.
Earn a full-time job offer from your internship by following these tricks
Summer internships offer the opportunity to gain work experience and build professional relationships. Studies show that 70% of companies offer full-time job proposals to their interns. To increase your chances of securing a permanent role, understand the company and its business, express enthusiasm and take initiative, ask questions and stay curious, follow workplace etiquette, and focus on networking. Working hard and consistently, embracing professionalism, and clearly expressing ideas are also important to impress employers.
Ready to enter the workforce? Follow these workplace etiquette to thrive in a corporate setting
Entering the workforce can be intimidating, but following proper workplace etiquette can smooth the transition. Firstly, greet others politely every day to make a great first impression and present yourself as approachable and accessible. Being punctual for all engagements displays your time-management and organisational skills, values the time of others, and fosters better relationships.
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We are ramping up our focus on product accessibility, and hiring more people with disabilities: Ted Drake, Intuit
Drake says the company is not just focused on the hiring of disabled employees but also on making sure that when someone comes in, they have all the tools they need in order to do their best work.
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GSK Consumer Healthcare sets up 27,000 sq. ft. office, embraces smart working
The office has been designed incorporating learnings from the company's recent work-from-home experience.
The handshake regains firm grip on corporate etiquette
The humble handshake has regained popularity because with the number of active cases reducing in the country and masses getting fully vaccinated, the hesitation of being in close proximity to the co-workers has seen a decline.
What leaders need to know about honesty, ethics and integrity in the new workplace
New technologies and modes of working have not solved the problems of honesty, ethics, and integrity in the workplace. Rather, like the COVID-19 virus, these issues have also undergone mutations, slipping under the radar – and leaders need to be able to spot them.
Is the workplace handshake truly dead, or is it simply hibernating?
The handshake traditionally was meant to show respect in business.
Back at work, employees experience a brand ‘new’ workplace
From numbering chairs to prevent accidental exchanges, converting corridors and walkways to ‘one-ways’ and encouraging use of alternate stalls and washbasins in washrooms, to having quarantine rooms and standby ambulance, companies are leaving no stone unturned to create a decluttered and ‘socially-distanced’ workplace as the cost of a small slip-up could be huge in the times of Covid-19.
Entire office building needn't be closed if 1 or 2 COVID-19 cases are reported: Health Ministry
"Any staff requesting home quarantine based on the containment zone activities in their residential areas should be permitted to work from home. DoPT guidelines with respect to organizing meetings, coordinating visitors shall be scrupulously followed," the guidelines stated.
#MeToo: Impunity and immunity of sexual predators must end at media workplaces
#MeTooIndia has exposed a deep wound, but the wound has been festering for decades.
Boss sent a rude mail? It can stress you and your family out
A rude email can not only stress out the recipient, but also affect their family members.
Seven things to never, ever say or do in a job interview
While it is important to know what to say in an interview, equally essential is to know the statements that can be the ultimate deal-breakers.
Five rules of a workplace relationship
Office romances come with an unwritten manual of work etiquette and code of conduct. One misstep and you could find yourself violating company policy.
Five ways to maintain workplace etiquette
Offices are increasingly doing away with cubicles and shifting to open floor plans. It becomes important to maintain certain behavioural standards.
14 email etiquette rules every professional should know
With more or less all our conversations are over emails now and it is important to get them right to have the desired impact. Here are some tips:
14 email-etiquette rules every professional should know
Research has found that US employees, on average, spend about a quarter of their time at work combing through the hundreds of emails each worker sends and receives each day.
19 business etiquette rules every professional should know
Here are the most important tips on how to introduce yourself, how to dress, and what to order at restaurants from Barbara Pachter's book.
19 business etiquette rules every professional should know
Many people wind up making fools of themselves because they don't understand that etiquette rules in business differ slightly from those in standard social settings.
How to talk to your CEO without making a fool of yourself
Every company and CEO is different, so a good first step is to take cues from the people around you who have already been at the company for a while.
Six steps to get the most out of your internship
The only way to succeed in an internship is to not treat it as one. Think of it as a stop gap arrangement and you won’t be able to juice it for what it’s really worth.
Top 10 people skills to put your career on a fast track
Smart resumes are useful only in getting a job. To sustain it, one requires not just expertise in one’s field but, more importantly, inter-personal skills.
Sexual harassment cases at workplace leave male employees feeling confused, fearful
“Some CEOs have told me their male managers are refusing certain postings where there are women-intensive roles,” says Saundarya Rajesh.
5 ways to follow rules of office etiquette
Around four months ago, a mid-level executive’s casual dress sense cost him a plum posting in an international engineering and design company.
IT companies give new recruits English, etiquette lessons
IT companies too have increased the time spent on training on soft skills and communication from 10% to 30%.
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