New seminar „Elmayer Business Etiquette“ on October, 20th 2009

He now created a new one day seminar in English. The objective is to help to facilitate the cooperation and understanding between people of all nationalities in business and society.

The main topics of this new seminar are:

  • Criteria for success
  • The right action at the right time
  • How to establish and cultivate contacts, greeting, introducing, conversation, business cards
  • Table manners in theory and practice including a formal lunch
  • Invitations, events, hosts and guests
  • Dress codes
  • Standard situations – buffets, cars, content of ladies handbags, doors, gifts, mobile phones, piercings, restaurant, speeches, smoking, stairs, tattoos, theatre etc.
  • About 50 case studies

On October 20th 2009 this new seminar is offered by WIFI Management Forum with Thomas Schäfer-Elmayer as trainer. He was elected  Trainer of the Year in 2007 and is the author of five books on manners – all of them best sellers in Austria. For more information on this trainer  and CEO of Tanzschule Elmayer look into his abbreviated cv on this site.

If  you are interested in internal seminars tailor made for your company we offer an efficient way to enhance your company culture,  sophisticated communication and self-confidence and self-assured presence in every business situation. You can give your team a new tool that is of real help in dealing with people of  all branches and at all levels.  You are  welcome to contact us for further details regarding this new and special opportunity  for improved soft skill qualities and success in the Austrian as well as the international environment in business and society.

Manners, Protocol, and Etiquette

For 90 years and in its third generation Elmayer is the Austrian bench mark regarding manners, protocol, and etiquette. Tanzschule Elmayer as a company during these decades itself stands as an example for the fact that sophisticated behaviour can strongly contribute to outstanding quality and lasting long term success.

Prof. Thomas Schäfer-Elmayer who after his University studies of economy used to work as a manager in international industrial corporations in Switzerland, South Africa, Germany and Norway stands at the helm of Tanzschule Elmayer since 1987. During these two decades he became the leading figure in questions of etiquette in Austria. He gives up to 100 seminars, work shops, speeches etc. on this topic per year in English and German. His audiences encompass the entire spectrum of business and society in and outside Austria.