on Saturday morning in a business hotel in Baden AG. It is shortly before 9 am, the same, the course starts “Kniggteens”, in the 13 – to to 17-Year-old learn how to behave decently. The youth of today has “” no idea, stir things up adult of today; they lacked good manners and respect.
Eight Teenagers are signed up for the four and a half hour Workshop, two seats 15 minutes prior to the start of the course at the conference table, without a Peep and without a cell phone. Céline*: light blue blouse, black trousers, big glasses, erect posture. “I’m 15 and want to make at CS or UBS internship”, will tell you later about yourself. And Manuel: “I’m looking for an Apprenticeship in the health field and would like to know how I’m supposed to in a job interview behavior.” With his white shirt, the blue jacket and the battery of hairstyle rates, he would be styled already perfect for this.
How you should behave in the adult world, if you are so far almost exclusively with young people wrong?
Outside, in front of the entrance, a gangly blond Teenager around fiddles in the knitted cardigan with a coat hanger and tried to hang up his thick winter jacket in the narrow wardrobe. “I’ll pick you up at half two in here again, OK?” the woman says behind him, presumably his mother. No Response. “Did you hear that?” “Jaa-haa.” That’ll be fun.
Hardly in the class room, he is transformed. He introduces himself like that he is from Germany, his brother had also attended a business etiquette course. Up to the routine, the three-course menu with large salad pasta sheets and slippery the very end of today’s Workshops, he will join in without a murmur.
It is almost transformed, as then, in the “Mini Playback Show” on RTL, in the bright, shy, precocious children – in an interview with the Dutch TV presenter Marijke Amado – behind the magic door into singing Stars. At least visually. Young people feel the same way, if you get into the professional life: still on the break place, and in the middle of the adult world. Just how you should behave there, if you are so far almost exclusively with young people wrong?
The Handshake to begin with Trump learn
9 o’clock, the etiquette course; two minutes later, the last three young people in a tailspin, too. “I’m not a housekeeper, I want us to have a dialogue together,” says the course Director Katrin Künzle-friendly. The round conference table remains silent. Since around 15 years, the company Künzle organization, Switzerland offers a wide courses of Decency, initially only for children, for about ten years, for a Teenager, either in private classes, such as here in Baden or in schools or in companies in which the worlds of the young people and adults rudely collide.
“as far as the etiquette has changed in the past ten years,” says Katrin Künzle. The young people in the private courses, know, always better to know and have at most a fine-tuning needed. “I have operated Workshops in schools or Teaching the longer, the more empty swallowing.”
to Press to Welcome a little harder, but not make you merely the rough Trump-Shake for the Welcome, this is rude.Katrin Künzle
There, the rules of etiquette, to is trainer, then gum-chewing teenagers with Ablöschgesicht, the cap on the head, the hands in the pants bag, the Airpods in the ear. You must tell us, for example, that this Occurrence is less cool than you think, and that there are in the Job better greeting formulas as “Yo, Old”.
in Contrast, the eight Teenagers here seem like well-behaved students of an upscale boarding school. You will be asked something on the lines good in the Hand. “Know someone, who is Knigge?” All hands high. “His views were quite sexist and old-fashioned,” says Veronika from Liechtenstein. The 17-Year-old would like to study psychology. She wears only black dresses. “For a job interview I would have to first buy a couple of bright dresses,” she says later, when it comes to the dress code and the first impression in professional life.
What, please, is to teach these young people? Katrin Künzle has an idea: in the right Hands. One after the other to shake in your sample. “That felt just as if you had handed me a dead fish. To press a little harder, but not make you merely the rough Trump-Shake for the Welcome, it’s rude.”
“a Lot of adults behaving indecent as we”
Later, to practice the young people to Small Talk and the interview replay. Manuel speaks eloquently laid out, in the role-playing game with Katrin Künzle, who embodies a human resources Manager, circumnavigates he himself sent the ineffable question about the weaknesses. He was kind of a mess, but he’s been working with his mother in mind. You would let him go safely to the world of work and wonders whether you would even have been 14 anywhere near as confidently.
none of That on this Saturday morning, so right here voluntarily, can nobody say. “I had no choice”, is Noel, a high school student to lure head with glasses and a black shirt from Uerikon ZH, during one of the breaks, grinning. He, of all people, brings the most eagerly.
the siblings Sonja and Tim from the Canton of Solothurn were sent by their mother. Not because they were particularly naughty, to assure both credible in the choir. “Others had it much worse than we do. Especially in the table manners,” says Sonja with a look on his face. “It is properly gruusig, as some sipping at our school or food on the table throw.”
There is but increasingly adults who behaved quite deliberately so, as if you were alone in this world.Katrin Künzler
“us too!” agrees Noel. “Especially in the sec, it’s bad. Some find it cool, some of them may have learned to never, how to behave.” The Katrin Künzle looks similar. “It is not true that today’s young people are generally rude. You know it is often just not better.”
This shortcoming is mainly due to the parents ‘ house. Sometimes, no evil intent was behind, but just a different culture with its own etiquette. However, there are increasingly adults who behaved quite deliberately so, as if you were alone in this world. The cut itself, instead of waiting, the sit stay, instead of the other place to provide the remain in the morning, to mute, to greet, instead of the colleagues. Because it is not prohibited.
“a Lot of adults behave more lewd than we, the so-called youth of today!”, the 15-year-old Sonja says, before it’s to four hours of time to Practice for the last program point: table manners. Katrin Künzle explain where the napkin belongs, how to eat big leaves of lettuce without a knife, and where it is placed at the end of the Cutlery.
“you look a bit skeptical. Do you have a question?” Katrin Künzle Manuel says. “No, I would just like to eat.”
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Created: 17.11.2019, 18:40 PM
