Looking for a way to polish your professional presence and skills? This is your chance!

"Do you want to learn how to communicate effectively with your supervisors and peers?  Do you want to sharpen your leadership skills and advance your career?  Have you ever questioned how to properly handle a co-worker who impolitely interrupts your conversation?  Would you like to interview or network fearlessly to exude competency, confidence, and charisma?"  

Success with Etiquette™ helps you gain a competitive edge by strengthening your professionalism, corporate image, and productivity.  You can enhance your business and social skills to project a poised, polished, and professional image, to create a great first impression and boost your professional and financial success.

Learn the etiquette skills to succeed in business as well as ways to improve your professional and global image. During this highly interactive, fun-filled, entertaining seminar, you will learn:

• The Art of First Impressions:  Appearance, Body Language, and Nonverbal Communication
• Proper Introductions and Handshakes
• Business Card Protocol
• Positive Attitude & Demeanor
• Professional Image & Presence
• Dress For Success
• Telephone & Cell Phone Etiquette
• Email Netiquette: Compose clear, concise, and professional messages
• Workplace Etiquette
• Teamwork & Conflict Resolution
• Networking to Build Relationships
• Do's & Don'ts of Gender Neutral Etiquette
• The Art of Thank You!

In today's fiercely competitive business world, technical knowledge and expertise is no longer enough to ensure workplace success.  Success in business is attributed to 85% people skills and 15% technical.  Without business etiquette skills, upward mobility in the workplace is simple unattainable.  Take control of your destiny!

Boost your success by learning powerful tools to polish your interpersonal "soft" skills to become socially at ease and adept in diverse business and social settings.  Sharpen your professionalism, corporate image, and business savvy to outclass the competition.

Success with Etiquette™ benefits all professional levels – basic, intermediate, advanced and executive.  This breakthrough seminar will leave you sophisticated, savvy, and socially at ease to manage your next business encounter.

Both men and women are welcome!

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ADVANCED REGISTRATION REQUIRED! 

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Success with Etiquette: "Business Dining Etiquette & Wine Tasting"

                           

 When:  Thursday, May 8, 2008

Time:    6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Where:  The Caucus Room

              401 9th Street, NW, Market Square North, Washington, DC

Cost:    $225.00 – includes Four Course Gourmet Dinner, Wine Tasting & Food Pairing, and Success with Etiquette: Delightful Dining Etiquette Book

Dress:   Business Attire

Maximum of 12 Participants

METRO: Green/Yellow (Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter station)  Red/Blue/Orange (Metro Center station)

"What fork should you use?  Where do you place the napkin?  How do you order wine and select from an extensive wine menu? How do you correctly pronounce "sommelier?"  What are four taboo topics to avoid during a business meal?"  What's the proper way to eat soup?"

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.  A recent study found that 30% of business is lost over dining.

 

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, intellect, and business acumen.  The way you behave while dining is a reflection of how you conduct business.

 

Join Success with Etiquette for a charming fine dining experience that explores all aspects of dining and wine etiquette.  Learn the finer points of dining etiquette such as do’s and don’ts, who pays the bill, how to enter your seat, exit the table, proper wine etiquette, tips on wine selection and food pairing, how to order from the menu and consume difficult foods. 

 

During an instructional four course gourmet dinner, participants learn table manners, social graces, and wine etiquette to help them comfortably interact in a business or social setting.  Participants will learn finesse to dine with delight, charisma, and sophistication.  This festive seminar guarantees an enjoyable dining experience for one and all!  Topics include:

 

Place Settings   Silverware Savoir-Faire Napkin Placement Seat Assignments Dining Styles (American & Continental) Body Language at the Table Food Faux Pas

Eloquent Conversation Wine Etiquette Host/Guest Duties Toasts Invitations Tipping & Gift Etiquette The Art of Thank You! and more…

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ADVANCED REGISTRATION REQUIRED! 

Register By Fax or Phone: 

Download Professional Presence in Business Series Brochure & Registration Form

Please call 202.352.3166 to Register By Phone for our Success with Etiquette Seminars.

Your Key To Success Is With Etiquette!

Seminars Presented By:  Shawn E. Gilleylen

Shawn E. Gilleylen is a business etiquette expert, passionate trainer, motivational speaker, and author of "Success with Etiquette: Books of Etiquette." Shawn helps her clients enhance their professionalism, manners, corporate image, and productivity for increased profits.  She has over 15 years of expertise working with dignitaries and CEOs and has conducted workshops and seminars for a wide spectrum of audiences from corporate executives to entrepreneurs, educational institutions, and associations to career fairs.  Shawn has helped people from all walks of life polish their image and improve their self-confidence to boost their success with etiquette.

Refund Policy 

All payments are nonrefundable. If you are unable to attend, you can apply it to another seminar or share your reservation with a colleague or friend.  Please email the person's name to shawng@adminsupportassociates.com.

Inclement Weather Policy

We are not able to issue refunds for seminars which have been postponed due to inclement weather.  Administrative Support Associates will make every effort to reschedule seminars as quickly as possible.