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Peter Post gives your readers the advantage they need to conquer
those details in a new weekly column from The New York Times
Syndicate. Post answers readers’ questions about navigating
the world of work: How to put together an image that projects
competence. How to establish rapport with a new client. How
to smooth things over with a difficult co-worker.
With common sense and humor, each column focuses on how to conduct
courteous business, from perfecting a handshake and composing
your self in a meeting, to choosing attire for a corporate event
and giving gifts at work.
Peter Post is a director of the Emily Post Institute and co-author
o “The Etiquette Advantage in Business: Personal Skills
for Professional Success” (HarperCollins, 1999), the second
edition due in bookstores in May. As the creator of the Emily
Post Business Seminar series, he has lectured to companies across
the country on such topics as business travel, international
customs, table manners and e-mail etiquette.
Post is also the author of the New York Times best seller “Essential
Manners for Men: What to Do, When to Do It and Why” (HarperResource,
2003), in which he tackles the manners foibles of men, with
self-deprecation and keen wit. Since its release the book has
been reprinted eight times, and Post has done more than 500
media interviews on the subject of men’s manners. He is
currently working on the follow-up “Essential Manners for
Couples,” to be published in the fall of 2005. He also
writes a monthly business etiquette column for Men’s Health
magazine.
One of Emily Post’s four great-grandchildren, Peter owns
a marketing and public relations agency and has more than 25
years of experience in marketing, communications, design and
education, He earned his master’s degree in fine art from
Pratt Institute and his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.
The Emily Post Institute, created in 1946 and currently run
by third-generation family members, serves as a “civility
barometer” for American society. The institute has grown
to address the societal concerns of the 21st century, including
technology etiquette, raising polite children and civility in
America.
