Blogs Posts in Manners category; 180 blog posts

Modern Manners + Etiquette: Flirting Etiquette

Anticipating Valentine's Day, etiquette questions this past week to NewportManners.com asked about flirting for the tongue-tied and fresh ideas for meeting and pleasing. Valentine angst. The reality is, meeting new people is difficult [...]

Posted On : Feb, 13 2012 | Comments : 0

Modern Manners + Etiquette: Relationship Issues

What is the etiquette of social kissing in flu season? Do I accept an invitation to "friend" a potential boss? How do I defriend a friend I no longer like? Here are typical questions about redefining relationships that came into [...]

Posted On : Feb, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Modern Manners + Etiquette: Holiday Q&A

Question: I tend to be comfortable talking to men OR women at a party and sometimes this lands me in an exclusive conversation with the opposite sex. It is only later that I realize that it must have looked perhaps out of line. Nothing s [...]

Posted On : Dec, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Manners, Etiquette, Image and Communication Finishing School...

Join Gloria Starr, leading expert in personal and corporate image, etiquette, ambassador and communication skills since 1983 welcomes you to participate in the Modern Day Finishing School. Discover and learn everything you always wanted t [...]

Posted On : Sep, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Modern Manners + Etiquette: Talking About STDs + HIV

This week marks 30 years since AIDS was identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and yet we still don't know the etiquette for talking about HIV and STDs. What inhibits us from having such an important conversatio [...]

Posted On : Jun, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Modern Manners + Etiquette: Sharing Household Chores

What's going on with the venerable state of marriage? Last Thursday the Census Bureau released the latest statistics about marriage that say, in the past sixty years the number of “husband-wife families” has fallen 30% sin [...]

Posted On : May, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

Modern Manners + Etiquette: Cheating

Speaking of timely, lately more and more questions coming into my etiquette Web site have to do with adultery. Not surprisingly, they are mostly from victims. A husband wants to know what to do after reading a declaration of love on his w [...]

Posted On : May, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Cops to get a crash course in manners and etiquette

Next time you meet a polite police person, don't be unduly surprised. The state police are slated to get a crash course in manners and etiquette. The idea mooted by the new state DGP Gauri Shanker Rath to make the police a people frie [...]

Posted On : May, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Etiquette, Manners, Communication, Image CD's and DVD's by G...

Ms. Starr is a member of the National Speakers Association, member of the Institute of Management Consultants, a charter member of the Society for the Advancement of Consulting,a member of the National Association of Professional Women, [...]

Posted On : Jan, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Miss Manners: Etiquette begins at home

Please address the need to educate children in basic behavior, such as personal space, personal possessions and speaking on the phone. It seems basic manners has been lost, and children are unaware of their responsibility to be polite. T [...]

Posted On : Sep, 22 2010 | Comments : 0

Etiquette guides removal of food from mouth

What do you do when you take a bite of something, say meat, and it's all bones or fat, and you need to get it out of your mouth? Do you discreetly put your napkin to your mouth and hide it in there? This may sound ridiculous, but I&# [...]

Posted On : Sep, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

My Secret Etiquette Fetish

I have a guilty pleasure. I love etiquette books. I can spend endless hours with Emily and Peggy. My mother bought me the classic tome of manners for college graduation, Amy Vanderbilt’s Complete Book of Etiquette [...]

Posted On : Sep, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

Face it, You Have Bad Manners

Bad manners are wearing us down! A day doesn't go by that I don't overhear some exhausted patron or clerk, grandmother, teacher, CEO, television judge, or tennis coach exasperated by the seeming lack of manners witnessed dai [...]

Posted On : Sep, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Good manners must come from within

I read with disgust the letter “Check rude behaviour” (The Star, June 25) and cannot help but agree with the writer about the unpleasant encounters that one gets from the market to shopping malls, from hospitals to airports. [...]