Author: Eric

北美职场老将分享： 要不要道歉？

“北美职场上，出了错要不要道歉？”这个问题一再被在北美工作的职场中人提起。它关乎职场文化，也关乎中西方文化的差异。有部分我采访的老师就此提供了自己的看法。我觉得非常有意思， 这里不再进行特别的编辑，直接跟大家分享TA们的原话，以便大家最大程度地获知TA们的心得体会和多方位的视角，对“职场道歉”问题有个心中大概。

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Improv Classes

Instructor: Nancy Morrison

Basic improv rules:

* Don’t deny.  Take whatever your partner tells you as true, and add your own story to it.

* You don’t have to be funny. The harder you try not to be funny, the scene might become funnier!

* Don’t ask open ended questions.  Open ended questions like “who are you” put the burden of developing interesting stories to your partner, while you yourself are not  contributing ideas.

* You look good when you make your partner look good.

As a general rule of thumb, what happens in class stays in class.  So we won’t disclose activity details in the minutes.

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Social Etiquette Dialogue (Questions 1 – 10)

Social Etiquette Dialogue (Questions 1 – 10)

  1. Our company and another company share washrooms in an office building. One day, I was in a stall, and received a message from my friend. I replied to her in a very low voice. Then someone knocked at my door and said: “Are you using your cell phone in the washroom? You should not do that!” My question is: is it rude to use cell phone in public washroom? At the time, there were empty stalls from other people to use, and my voice was kept very low.

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