This exciting one-day seminar/workshop  is for anyone, any age interested in acquiring the finer points and necessary skills for smooth social and business interactions,  and to handle challenging social encounters with style and panache. Know your protocol when dealing with visiting foreign dignitaries and clients.

Packed with up to-the-minute techniques to enhance your  professional presence to create best impressions, and be the ideal ambassador for your organization. Learn how to host chic and elegant functions. Participants will be taken through the intricacies of business entertaining and formal dining so that they gain absolute confidence in these areas.

Celebrity Chef Koluu aka Hemalalindre  Ranawaka, will be one of the guest facilitators who will give practical suggestions for entertaining on menu planning, balancing and  selection of food for boardroom entertaining to corporate soirees to client meetings to hosting formal dinners at home.Get the savvy advice on wines from the Wine Expert, from selecting it, to serving it, to sipping and appreciating it.  Find out what the perfect wine pairings are for food and special occasion.  Learn the secrets of impressing your client and the sommelier when you order from a wine list.

This programme is facilitated by Nedra Wickremesinghe, and is intended to be highly interactive with role-plays, movie clips, and demonstrations and with loads of food.   It is held on the October 27 at the Cinnamon Lakeside, Colombo from 9.00 – 5.00 p.m.