| Everyone has heard it and probably a very large | | | | the English language that motivated and moved their |
| number of individuals have used profanity to make a | | | | staff to productivity and to results. At performance |
| point in a conversation. Does profanity in the business | | | | meetings between employers and employees, do |
| community have an impact or is it a barometer to | | | | you actually think that when the subject of how you |
| just how intelligent a client, manager, or CEO is? | | | | would advance the company or bring better |
| Charles Osgood once made a comment on "words." | | | | workmanship to your department that the use of |
| He said "Compared to the spoken word, a picture is | | | | profanity gave you a better score? Why do colleges |
| a very pitiful thing." Words can be so powerful that | | | | and higher institutes of learning have English/ |
| they change the course of history and they can and | | | | grammar, and even public speaking classes but none |
| have brought powerful nations down to their knees. | | | | have Profanity 101 - a class that will better your |
| It is the choice of words, whether in social or | | | | chances for success in the business world? Point in |
| business situations, that tracks the course of the | | | | case, the more advanced your vocabulary, the |
| meeting, the evening, or even just a walk through | | | | better handle you have on expressing your needs |
| the park. Have you ever gone to eat with your | | | | with words, the use and need for profanity |
| family to an upscale restaurant and the table next to | | | | decreases tremendously because you are in control, |
| you - an after business meeting get-together of men | | | | you have nothing to hide with vulgarity, and it is |
| women, or other group of adults, that used language | | | | more important to you to get your point across in a |
| that more than emphasized their laughter and their | | | | way that motivates and inspires those you are in |
| gestures. Did you leave that restaurant refreshed and | | | | charge of, whether that be an assembly line, a sales |
| grateful that you were privvy to such language? | | | | department, or even a branch office. |
| Could you honestly say that the conversation at the | | | | Profanity does have its place - in the mouths and on |
| next table made your night out memorable? It may | | | | the minds of those whose limits of language is to be |
| have if your vocabulary was built around the premise | | | | pitied not copied. In any business setting, vulgar |
| that the harsher the words, the more authority the | | | | language is a marker of someone who does not |
| speaker commands. | | | | have the capacity to lead, but only to the immature |
| Most individuals who have reached the point of being | | | | level of not being able to control his/her own temper |
| managers or in places of authority in their chosen | | | | or outbursts and can only use tactics that are not |
| fields did not get there because they were | | | | business worthy. Something to think about. |
| well-versed in foul language. They moved up the | | | | ©Arleen M. |
| ladder of success because they had a command of | | | | |