THIS week, the newly-inaugurated President of the United States, Joe Biden, made it clear to his staff that they would be fired on the spot if they showed disrespect to colleagues. Why is this a significant declaration?

How do we show respect for others? What does respect look like? How do we know it when we see it? How do we recognise when it’s absent? Here are just six examples of ways to show respect, and hopefully you can put them into practice.