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Emerge is a digital library of 500+ instructional items for business communication skills.

The platform integrates to your LMS for single sign-on.

employability skills lessons from rubin emerge on a white board
Miami-Dade teacher Shnae Wallace posts Rubin Emerge lessons on the whiteboard for students to work on.

How to Shake Hands in the Business World

Click arrow to expand and watch a video on effective handshakes

Practice shaking hands

You and your classmates will stand up and greet each other with proper handshakes and steady eye contact.

Hold a conversation

Then, hold a brief conversation with a classmate after you shake hands. Ask the person about their weekend and what the person did for fun.

Share the experience

Be prepared to share your experience with the handshake activity. You may also want to talk about how people in various cultures may greet each other differently (ex: not shake hands or make eye contact).

A teacher in Prince William County Schools in Northern Virginia holds a Rubin poster after an August training on the Emerge curriculum for employability skills.