{"id":1538,"date":"2011-03-14T18:21:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T18:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2011-03-14T18:21:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T18:21:03","slug":"hugs-versus-handshakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/14\/hugs-versus-handshakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugs Versus Handshakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/loving_god_showing_love_hug_107.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-262\" title=\"loving_god_showing_love_hug_107\" src=\"http:\/\/hotel-lobbyists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/loving_god_showing_love_hug_107-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s a very touchy-feely industry.\u00a0 It\u2019s\u2026 hospitable.\u00a0 And so is a hug an appropriate greeting or closing to a business meeting?\u00a0 I\u2019m finding more and more that it is.\u00a0 And is there anything more awkward than one party moving in for a handshake and the other moving in for a hug?\u00a0 Usually the next step is that the parties switch so that the initial hugger extends his or her hand and the initial shaker opens his or her arms up for a hug.\u00a0 Or worse, the two parties continue moving in the direction so that the initial shaker has now stuck his or her hand into the gut of the initial hugger!\u00a0 And who has more egg on their face \u2013 the person who misjudged the relationship and extended a hand or the person who opened their arms?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, few other industries face such dilemmas on a daily basis.\u00a0 I can\u2019t imagine oil tycoons are doing much hugging these days.\u00a0 I certainly didn\u2019t hug my car salesman!\u00a0 Do we hug our doctors?\u00a0 Our teachers?\u00a0 Our lawyers?\u00a0 Our accountants?\u00a0 I like that I\u2019m in an industry where we form relationships that extend beyond the handshake.\u00a0 It\u2019s a people industry, and people hug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a very touchy-feely industry.\u00a0 It\u2019s\u2026 hospitable.\u00a0 And so is a hug an appropriate greeting or closing to a business meeting?\u00a0 I\u2019m finding more and more that it is.\u00a0 And is there anything more awkward than one party moving in for a handshake and the other moving in for a hug?\u00a0 Usually the next step [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.3 - 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