This means acting professionally when communicating with coworkers, managers and clients. What is business etiquette?īusiness etiquette is a term for the behavior guidelines that apply to the workplace. In this article, we discuss business etiquette and offer 26 tips to help you improve your own business etiquette. Having clear expectations of conduct contributes to a professional, productive, communicative and respectful workplace for both employees and management. Though each company might have unique etiquette expectations, there are several common components that many organizations share. 'Blending intrigue and elements of the school story, Carriger introduces teen readers to a supernatural-meets-steampunk world full of action and wit.Business etiquette refers to the manners and rules required and enforced in a professional environment.

' delightfully madcap espionage adventure.' 'Carriger deploys laugh-out-loud bon mots on nearly every page.Amid all the fun, the author works in commentary on race and class in a sparkling start to the Finishing School series.' 'Carriger's YA debut brings her mix of Victorian paranormal steampunk and winning heroines to a whole new audience.with cleverly Victorian methods of espionage, witty banter, lighthearted silliness, and a ship full of intriguingly quirky people.' Two free printable pdfs for teachers, librarians, any other interested parties. Gail's fans created a Reading Guide and Vocabulary List for Etiquette & Espionage. Sophronia and her friends are going to have a rousing first year at school.Įtiquette & Espionage debuted the New York Times Young Adult bestseller list at #9 on February 24, 2013. Mademoiselle Geraldine's certainly trains young ladies in the finer arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also in the other kinds of finishing: the fine arts of death, diversion, deceit, espionage, and the modern weaponries. She enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.īut little does Sophronia or her mother know that this is a school where ingenious young girls learn to finish, all right-but it's a different kind of finishing. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper etiquette at tea-and God forbid anyone see her atrocious curtsy.

Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is the bane of her mother's existence.

Etiquette & espionage by gail carriger