Did you know that 30% of business is lost over dining etiquette?

Good business begins with proper manners and appropriate etiquette. The cultivation of professionalism is an integral part of your business development that enables you to build effective relationships to gain access to opportunities. Negative first impressions and bad manners are deal breakers. Your company’s global image should represent a universal standard of professionalism and good manners that does not waiver.

In today’s business world, more and more business is conducted over restaurant tables than boardrooms. Part of the professional process is being able to understand proper table etiquette and how to present oneself in a sophisticated and proper manner while eating.

Dining with a client, colleague, or superior is an opportunity to get to know the individual on a personal level to strengthen your business relationship. Clients and employers are observing your social skills, character, and business acumen. The way you behave while dining is a reflection of how you conduct business.

The Success with Etiquette™ Training Program helps you gain a competitive edge by strengthening employee professionalism, corporate image, communication skills, and business savvy. This seminar teaches valuable strategies to help your employees understand the principles of proper dining etiquette and how dress, body language, communication, and social skills can enhance or undermine your corporate image, business growth, and reputation with customers and clients.

During an instructional four-course meal, participants learn social graces and table manners to help them comfortably interact in a business or social setting. Participants receive Success with Etiquette: Delightful Dining Book to explore, learn, discuss, and reflect on the concepts that have been presented.

Learning Objectives:

• Master the art of proper table etiquette from introductions and handshakes to place settings and dining styles to conversation skills and nonverbal communication to invitations and toasts to dine like a diplomat.
• Comprehend the principles of business etiquette to make a good first impression.
• Learn proper placement of silverware and napkin to dine with confidence and charisma.
• Understand American and Continental Style dining.
• Consume difficult foods, enter seat properly, exit table, and serve dishes in the appropriate manner.
• Choose the appropriate attire for all occasions.
• Cultivate conversation skills and avoid taboo topics.

Course Duration: 2.0 Hours or Half Day – Interactive Dining Exercises.