Greeting etiquette is the most common and basic etiquette in Social etiquette, especially for those who engaged in service industry. Mastering some greeting etiquette can leave a favorable impression for your clients which will lay a foundation for the future work. The most common greeting etiquette are handshake, bow, embrace, kiss and hand-kissing.
Handshake
Handshake is an ordinary etiquette in everyday contact which is usually used in greetings, regards, expressing thanks or wishes. It is an international etiquette. In which occasions do you think you should shake hands with others?
Occasions
1.Meeting with long-lost friends 2.Congratulating someone 3.Encourage someone 4.Being introduced with someone, greeting each other
Rules of handshake
high-status people shakes first
1.Elders shake hands with young people 2.Ladies shake hands with men 3.Married people shake hands with bachelors 4.In social occasions people who come first shake hands with people who come late 5.superiors shake hands with subordinates
Questions
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What is the rule of handshake when one person shake hands with multiple people?
1.When you shake hands with someone, you should smile and make eye contact. 2.Handshake should combined with greeting. 3.The best distance for handshake is 1 meter. 4.Don’t look around or greet someone else. 5.You should stand up if you were sitting. 6.The power should be moderate. 7.The time should be kept around 3 seconds.
Ways of shaking
One hand: Equally handshake, Friendly handshake and controlling handshake. Two hand: Show your respect to seniority.
Taboos of handshake
1.Avoid rude behavior of other parts of your body. 2.Avoid pushing, pulling or moving around other people’s hand. 3.Avoid long speech or excessive enthusiasm. 4.Avoid dead-fish handshake. 5.Avoid shaking with a dirty hand or wiping your hand after handshake. 6.Avoid wearing sunglasses or gloves. 7.Avoid refusing other people’s handshake. 8.Avoid left hand shaking.
Embrace
①Left leg in the front, right in the back ②Left hand hold waist, right hold shoulder ③Firm your left leg, stand breast to breast ④Head in the left, right face to face ⑤If you were close, do it one more time.
Exercise
embrace
After a Long Separation can you show as an embrace? Description: 1.Actor: A lady and a gentleman 2.Scene: Classmate Reunion, two long lost friends 3.Observation: The way of embrace
Kiss
Not a kiss on the mouth
①Elders kiss juniors: forehead ②Juniors kiss elder: mandible ③Same generation: Same sex cheek kissing, opposite sex kiss cheek
Attentions of kissing
You should make noise of kissing, show you are close with someone Kissing always appears in colleagues or friends. Times of kissing can show your relation with your friend. Twice for general conditions, if you were close friends four times is OK. Regardless of close and distant. If you kissed your close friend in a party, don’t forget other friends.
Attentions of kissing
Men usually don’t kiss, the usually shake hands, because kissing between men can be mistaken as gay. However, kissing can be taken for male members of family or best friends. Men cannot kiss their friend’s wife or girlfriend in the first meeting. Superiors don’t kiss with their subordinates. Ordinary colleagues often don’t kiss as well, if they do, because they are close.
Hand-kissing
Hand-kissing is popular in Western upper class. Men can show their respect to married women via hand-kissing.
The right way
Hand-kissing
1.Man should walk to the front of a married woman, stand with a drooping head. 2.Hold lady’s right hand with his right hand or both hands. 3.Bow his head and kiss lady’s finger-back with mouth closed slightly.
冉兵
12-23
可以啊
冉兵
12-23
还不错啊