E-Cigarettes: How the rules haven’t changed
With e-cigarette sales surpassing $1.7 billion in 2013 and it becoming an ever popular alternative to smoking normal tobacco products, it begs the question, is this a healthy and acceptable...
Eight steps to Dining with Good Etiquette
Whether dining with the President of a large corporation, toasting with a promoted co-worker, or sitting with friends and family on Christmas Eve, an understanding of good dining etiquette makes time...
Online Etiquette: Your Career Depends on It
As the world continues to grow and become more technologically advanced, it becomes increasingly more important to conduct oneself in an appropriate and respectable manner when it comes to social...
Are You Happy at Work?
After 30 years, I left the businesses that I started and worked at with both great success and some failure along the way.
The 10 Cell Phone Commandments for the Discerning Individual
Cell phones have swept the global landscape by storm. There are nearly 7 billion people in the world with 6 billion of them owning a cell phone, 3.8 billion owning a toothbrush and 4.8 billion with...
Which knife? Which fork?
Anyone who’s been at a fine dining business meal knows that it can be extremely stressful, not only are you trying to negotiate a deal or strengthen a relationship but you’re also having...
Change Your Response and Achieve Success: Take 100% Responsibility For Your Life
The most important Success Principle and the one that all of success is based on is – Take 100% Responsibility for Your Life. Many people today think that just because they have been born, they are...
What is your life’s purpose?
What do we mean by this – it’s doing what we love to do and doing what we’re good at. In SA today this is a luxury that most of us cannot think about.
The Importance of Body Language in the Workplace
Do you want to have an advantage in interaction or negotiations with others? Do you wish to know how they are feeling and the way they are thinking?
Potential Questions You’ll be Asked in an Interview
Do you want to succeed in getting the job of your dreams? This does not just happen but is carefully planned and prepared for. What will make the difference between you and others and give you the...
10 Ways To Prepare For An Interview
Interviews always seem to be hair-raising. Nerves handicap your ability to express your authentic self and actually shut down your creative and learning centres.
5 Indispensible Dating Tips for Men
75% of woman value chivalrous behavior. It’s very simple… It all comes down to good old-fashioned manners…
Self Esteem – The Foundation of Success Part 1
Do you like yourself? Are you anxious? Do you treat yourself fairly? Do you expect too little out of life? If your answer is yes then you may be suffering from a low self esteem.
Self-Esteem – The Foundation of Success Part 2
Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama have shown that being black is no handicap to achieving the highest office and becoming icons and beacons of hope to a billion black people on the planet.
Self-Esteem
You may ask what self-esteem has to do with etiquette? The answer is everything. Whatever happens externally in your life first happens internally. When you have self belief and self-assurance,...