Active listening is the key to effective communication. Don't interrupt when the other person is speaking, and give them ...

“I just found out that Gen Z don’t answer the phone when they answer the phone,” one recruiter explained in a recent TikTok ...

Miss Manners says, "The polite thing for you to do would have been to hold your communications until she finished her call." ...

Media consumption via our smartphones is something so normalized that it has permeated every corner of our society, whether we like it or not. Whipping out your phone even in the middle of a classroom ...

Phone calls have been around for 147 years, the iPhone 16 years and FaceTime video voice mails about a week. Not surprisingly, how we make calls has changed drastically alongside advances in ...

Was she wrong to remind you that she was on the phone -- and that your note was therefore an interruption, even if not a verbal one? Or was she wrong to tell you who was on the other end? No and, ...

Do you remember the days when everyone had a landline at home? Those hardwired phones are now becoming relics of the past. The mobile phone reigns supreme in our pockets and palms, always ready to ...

Call me the Miss Manners of Mobility if you want, but I believe in cell phone etiquette. What is etiquette, anyway? It's really nothing more than a set of rules we all agree to follow in order to be ...

It may be nothing to write home about, but today's etiquette regarding cellphone use is getting a thoroughly modern makeover — and a lot of attention. "In casual or personal situations, it's often ...

"For most Americans, we've largely fallen out of the habit of leaving voicemail." — Thomas "Mr. Manners" Farley NEW YORK - There are only a few times today when most of us aren't glued to our phones. ...