In: Operations Management
A: Inappropriate Use of Business Cards
In this lesson we discussed the value of using business cards and how they can help you achieve your career goals. Now consider the flip side: Provide 2 or 3 examples or circumstance of where handing out business cards may be considered inappropriate. For each, explain why.
B: Intersection of Personal and Professional Networks
In this lesson we discussed how often, people you meet in a professional environment also become personal acquaintances. Describe one or two situations where this has happened to you – and whether the outcome was as you had hoped or expected.
A. Business cards are very much important for an individual representing a business and for an organization too, therefore the individuals need to be careful while using or handing out to business cards to customers or potential customers as well. I believe that the use should be effective and the individual needs to understand that if the situation is appropriate for handing out business cards or not.
1. Business cards should bot be handed out to anyone and everyone because it is something wrong and is not a proper etiquette because it may be a waste and may also kindle a negative impact on the individual's mind.
2. It should not be given voluntarily, it should be handed out only when someone is asking for it because the status and the attitude should be equivalent and if there is mutual consent only then handing out the card will be fruitful.
B. We are human beings and that is the reason there are instances when professional networks transform or change to personal networks and I believe this is something very natural, if we build relations that are quite comfortable for us we generally develop a personal bonding as well. In my first organization my manager and I shared a personal relationship as well because we were comfortable in work and our wavelength of thinking matches hence we did had a relationship of like a family out of work but that did not affect our professional relationship or role in the workplace.