LADISLAV ŠPAČEK: RODINNÁ ETIKETA

According to Jiří Guth-Jarkovský, "decency is innate in humans, but politeness must be learned". Our social behavior is the best representation of our personality, as well as that of a company or office, it creates better conditions for successful negotiations and inspires the trust of those around us. Proficiency in the rules of social behavior is not an archaism from Guth-Jarkovský's time, it is an everyday practical need in professional, social and personal life. The rules of etiquette are constantly changing, just as human society is changing, so it is necessary to know and apply them. Etiquette is today a prerequisite for success in professional, social and personal life.

In my lecture this time I will focus on family and social events. Etiquette in the family includes many forms of behavior, for example, between parents, parents and children, and between children themselves. We will talk about family celebrations, birthdays, weddings, proms, how to properly present gifts and flowers, what a meeting in a cafe, a business lunch should look like, how to properly present or accept an award at a company celebration.
Dining etiquette will be an important topic, which is difficult because we dine mostly in closed family communities, where various habits are passed down from generation to generation, and often even bad habits that we picked up from our parents or grandparents and now pass on to our children. We will talk about how to dine properly so that an invitation to dinner at a good restaurant, a wedding reception or a business trip to London does not surprise us. We will also note what a visit to a restaurant with children should look like.

Thursday 1. 10. ** UFFO ** 19:00 ** admission 390 CZK ** advance ticket sale from 16. 3.

Ladislav Špaček is a teacher by profession. He taught at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, and after the revolution, in 1990–1992, he was an editor and presenter of Czechoslovak Television. Since 1992, he has worked for almost eleven years at Prague Castle as a spokesman for President Václav Havel. He has participated in countless top social events, accompanied the President of the Republic to more than 50 countries around the world, and met dozens of presidents and members of royal families. He is the author and protagonist of the television series Etiquette and has written a number of books on this topic: Etiquette, The Great Book of Etiquette, The New Great Book of Etiquette, Comic Etiquette, Pocket Etiquette, Business Etiquette and Communication. He is also the author of Etiquette for Girls and Boys and Etiquette for Girls Tereza, as well as the memoir Ten Years with Václav Havel. He has written a series of successful etiquette books for children, Grandpa, Tell Me. In an original way, using only photographs, he introduced etiquette to readers in the Czech-English publication Obrazová etiketika. His largest work is the four-hundred-page etiquette, modern etiquette for everyone.
Ladislav Špaček works as a consultant in the field of communication and etiquette, organizing lectures for top managers of companies and offices as well as for the public.