Professional Courtesy, LLC

Karen Hickman specializes in Etiquette and Protocol Consulting and is based out of Fort Wayne, IN | TEL: 260-486-7758

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Dining Etiquette for Business & Pleasure

Dining for Business and Pleasure

Regardless, of whether you are being interviewed over a meal or hosting clients, the way you manage yourself at the table has a huge impact on how you are perceived as a professional. In fact, the lack of good table manners, or dining etiquette, can often be the deal breaker for people in business. So, understanding what to do in all dining situations…for business or pleasure, can open lots of doors and will help establish you as a savvy professional. It’s not lunch, it’s good business!

The topics discussed in our dining tutorials are listed below:

  • Business Entertaining vs. Social Entertaining
  • Host/Hostess and Guest Duties
  • Reading the Table
  • Silverware Savvy, Negotiating the Table
  • Silent Service Codes
  • Body Language at the Table
  • Difficult Foods
  • Toasting
  • American and Continental Style of Eating
  • Top Dining Tips

Karen Hickman has been an invaluable resource to our organization for over 10 years in providing education and training throughout our hospitals and physician offices. Karen has coached leaders from the C-suite to supervisors, physicians, and co-workers. Karen’s impact reaches across 11,000 coworkers, 700 providers, and 500 leaders. Whether it is a train-the-trainer program, one-on-one coaching, department meetings, leadership development days, Karen connects the importance of manners and etiquette in a professional healthcare setting.

Parkview Health
Lori Strahm
Director, Business Development and Strategic Relations
 

My Advisory Board members indicated that new employees needed to have soft skills. Technology skills are assumed with the graduates of our certificate program. Soft skills are highly desired by employers. We brought in Professional Courtesy in order to address this issues, and were greatly please with Karen’s presentation. I would highly recommend Professional Courtesy for students in public facing academic programs.”

ivy tech
Raphaël Wolff
STEM Cyber Technology Coordinator Ivy Tech Community College-Northeast
 

Company Profile

Founded in 1999, the mission of Professional Courtesy and Karen Hickman is to present programs of the finest quality with the highest degree of professionalism.

The purpose of the seminars and programs is to enable professionals, executives, and individuals to conduct business in diverse cultural arenas with ease.
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Business Email Etiquette                                                                                      The number of emails we all receive every day can be overwhelming, but they are a fact of life. Keeping that in mind, try to observe some of the basic email etiquette rules for emailing within the business world. Your email message may … Read More

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Professional Courtesy, LLC
Etiquette/Protocol Consultants
P.O. Box 15353
Fort Wayne IN 46885-5353

Telephone: 260-486-7758
Facsimile: 260-486-7758
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