Packing for your next business trip overseas? Don’t even think of wearing a black suit. “It screams security,” says Hilka Klinkenberg, founder and managing director of Etiquette International, a consultancy that coaches executives on the dos and don’ts of business etiquette. She says dressing appropriately when traveling abroad is important, because it indicates respect. Klinkenberg offers some tips that will help you avoid offending your overseas colleagues:n Be aware of touch and space: For example, in Asian cultures, it is taboo to touch anybody on the head, even a child. “The concept of the soul resides in the head,” says Klinkenberg. And be careful about touching across gender lines. For example, if you’re a man, don’t touch a woman unless she extends her hand first. The concept of personal space also varies across cultures. The Japanese stand a good deal farther apart than Americans, which allows room for bowing. In Latin or Arabic cultures, on the other hand, people stand much closer together, which can make Americans feel uncomfortablethink of the close-talker episode of Seinfeld.n Lose the 30-second handshake: In Europe, handshakes are more curt than in the United States. “One, possibly two shakes from the elbow, don’t shake, shake,… Read full this story
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