Social Dining:   No one wants to be the one to sit down at a table and not know what to do with all the knives or forks. Maybe you have a special love interest you would like to treat to a special evening, but you don’t feel confident about your dining skills.  Maybe you are tired of being called a slob.  This program offers participants the opportunity to increase or improve their dining etiquette knowledge.  Participants will gain the skills to help them be at ease around any dining table, whether as a guest or host.

Professional Dining:  A lot of business is conducted at parties and dinners; meetings that on the surface seem purely social. Knowing how to take advantage of the potential in these situations adds to your nine-to-five abilities. Many professionals are not at ease in such meetings.

Savvy dining skills play a major role in the business arena today. Top management at many Fortune 500 companies take potential front line employees to lunch or dinner to observe one’s dining skills and comfort levels with executives, spouses, waitrons, and yes, even myriad pieces of silverware. Like it or not, management equates good manners with competence in business and poor manners with incompetence.

To climb the corporate ladder, it is up to you to seize every opportunity to distinguish yourself and your employers from the competition. Dining Skills for Today will give you a useful set of dining etiquette tools for those special situations where business relationships are developed and strengthened in social settings.

Areas covered are:

  • Business Entertaining
  • Host/Hostess and Guest Duties
  • Place Setting Maps
  • Silverware Savvy
  • The Silent Service Code
  • Body Language at the Table
  • Handling Accidents
  • Difficult-to-Eat Foods
  • Forms of Service
  • American and Continental Styles of Eating
  • Toasting
  • As well as many other dining tips to help you acquire the social and business polish of a knowledgeable and successful person. These are skills that will serve one well for a lifetime.

Note: Programs may be arranged to include 2 hours of training, followed by a tutorial meal.  Dining tutorials only are also available in 2 1/2 hour segments.  Individual and family training welcome by arrangement.

Please contact us for private arrangements or register for waiting list for public offerings as they become available.

Adult Dining Tutorial

Description:

Believe it or not, agree with it or not, but each of us is judged by our dining skills.  Just getting the food into one's mouth is not the only measure of successful dining skills.  If your skills are good, you will be perceived favorably.  Poor skills are judged unfavorably.

Get the one time training you need to make a favorable and lasting positive impression.  Build your skills to help you look poised, polished, and confident around the table or in any situation involving food or dining.

  • Become the professional that presents him/herself well, as well as those you represent.
  • Become the parent that can train one's family in the skills needed to fit in and excel both socially and professionally.
  • Become the charming date or spouse you always knew you were... or hoped you would be.

The Northwest School of Protocol and Launchpad are partnering to offer an Adult Dining Tutorial, to be held at Launchpad.  Tutorial is offered February 9, 2012, from 6:00- 8:00.

Pre-registration and payment required at nwprotocol.com.  

Early registration, member, and group discounts available.

****10% of all proceeds goes to support Homes for Our Troops charity.

We are sorry but registration for this event is now closed.

Please contact us if you would like to know if spaces are still available.