i'm feelin' yah

A good friend of mine who works in big-bad-consulting, tells this great story of how he was introduced to the 'African' handshake.

Shortly after he arrived in our little fishing village from Ireland, he was escorted to a meeting where apon being introduced he offered his hand in greeting and instead of that old fashioned firm handshake that he was use to, his hand was gripped, rolled, twisted and shook and before he could contemplate what had happened it was over.

In the meeting that followed all that he could think about was the dynamics of this new handshake which he was mentally trying to reconstruct. He hoped that he would be able to get another chance to get it 'right' at the end of the meeting but instead of shaking again the parties simply left much to his disappointment.

After explaining it to me I tried to show him but my version but this wasn't up to scratch and our new resident expert then proceeded to school me in the art of shaking hands - that's big bad consulting for you.

Today I shook hands with another consultant but it was the 'old skool', grip and squeeze, none of that, "I'm feeling you darhg, I'm feelin' yah," much to my disapointment.