Course objectives

Most successful business meetings, outside the office, are conducted at a restaurant. Furthermore, a person’s table manners (or lack thereof) may be a deciding factor in securing a signed contract.

This program shows you how to polish your dinner party protocol and skillfully overcome anxiety while dining with potential employers or clients.

Despite the various cultural differences, there is a broad agreement across the world about table manners.

English people use a knife and fork one way, Americans cut their food and use their fork another, Africans and Arabs use their fingers, etc ... all traditional cultures, but difficult when traveling abroad.

The objective of learning international table manners is to be at ease when you cannot use your own method when in another country.

Table manners doesn't just mean how to hold a knife or fork but how to converse and with whom, thank serving staff verbally, when you can leave the table, what to do during speeches and much more.

Go to dinner with your boss, a business client and be at ease! To be at ease means, that you no longer need to think about your manners, you just focus on speeches and business matter.

Lunch will be provided at Café Flo Sanlitun (福楼咖啡三里屯店).

Content

  •      Reception and social hours
  •      Host and Guest Duties
  •      Ordering and being served
  •      Use of Silverware
  •      Place Setting
  •      Body Language at the Table
  •      Handling Accidents
  •      Napkin Etiquette & Seating Etiquette
  •      Eating Various Foods
  •      Toasting
  •      Wine Etiquette 
  •      Tipping 
  •      English, American and Continental Styles of Eating
  •      The Dos and Don’ts of Dining

Agenda

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Registration
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Reception
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch

Speakers

  • Catherine LAURENT

    Catherine LAURENT

    Catherine LAURENT, founder and coach, using her 30 years of experience as an international protocol and
    etiquette expert, will arm you with the skills to become more confident and comfortable in your own skin, able to communicate with others in a credible, authentic manner.
    There she delivers coaching courses dedicated mostly to women and men, who want to develop their personality, communications skills, style, culture and thus be more successful in their personal as in their professional life or be more competitive and self-confident in an international business arena.
    Her expertise of intercultural relations is the result of her academic and professional cursus.- graduated of letters, languages, and specialized in international trade, communications and management thanks to further education in high schools.
    Catherine deepened her knowledge of the social and professional intercultural modes of communications by traveling the world during 30 years in more than 20 countries (Russia, China, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, the United States, South America (Brazil, Chile) Cuba, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Turkey, Europe,
    Great-Britain).
    At the very beginning of her career, she was closely associated to functions of official representations within the framework of the French “National Assembly” close to European political, cultural, intellectual elites and high business circles.
    Then she became in charge of communications, events and international public relations for large industrial groups: Snecma group (SAFRAN Group) and ARIANESPACE,(Airbus Group).
    This particularly sharp and sensitive international organization teaches her how to manage the various protocols. On the whole, she has been the project manager of 22 launches.

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Tickets

Employee of Member Company

Please register and pay before December 21, 2017

Standard Price RMB 1,000
Non-Members

Please register and pay before December 21 2017

Standard Price RMB 1,200

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