Bound for the Boardroom

About the Book

In her comfortable, conversational and easy-to-read style, Barbara B. Bergstrom points the way for the savvy business person to reach the ultimate goal. Her sense of humor peppered throughout this book brings about the perfect route to understanding just what it takes for aspiring executives to gain a seat in the boardroom.

This guide has everything from non-gender contemporary business protocol (unlike the social graces you were taught at home) to the dining skills needed to navigate the executive dining room. "A business lunch is not about eating," says Bergstrom, an etiquette specialist and trainer. "Even what you wear says much about your executive presence in the United States and abroad."

Professionalism is a vital component to business success, whether you're participating in a business meeting, conversing on the phone, giving a speech or presentation, or shaking someone's hand. You must learn the rules of the game of business and play the game better than your competition in order to win.

In the highly competitive arena of business, management equates good manners with competence and poor manners with incompetence, even during the interview process for entry-level positions. If you are bound for the boardroom, you need to create a desire for customers, clients and business associates to want to do business with you based on mutual respect and civility.

Without knowing and practicing the steps carefully outlined for you in Bound for the Boardroom you will find the boardroom door is closed to you and the key thrown away. Welcome to the "real world," where you just never know what others know and you don't.

About the Author

Barbara B. Bergstrom is Executive Director of Greetings: Voice - Image - Communications, a leading etiquette and protocol training company with offices in Chicago and Orlando. She offers a wide range of cross-cultural etiquette and protocol training and consulting services. An award-winning trainer, motivational speaker and author, she has generated articles and training films that have been distributed nationally.

Barbara was educated in private preparatory schools in Chicago and attended the University of Texas, where she majored in mass communications. Following certification by the nation's most prestigious etiquette and protocol school in Washington, D.C., she established the International Association of Independent Etiquette and Protocol Consultants. Currently, Barbara serves as Chief Protocol Officer and Hospitality Chair of the International Council of Central Florida under the auspices of the U.S. Secretary of State.

A Distinguished Toastmaster, Barbara received the Toastmaster of the Year award for the state of Florida and the Bahamas in 2000 and was named Protocol Officer of a 10-state region including Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, plus the entire islands of the Bahamas.

Barbara is regularly featured on television and radio talk shows and in local and national publications. Her extensive list of clients includes professionals and those entering the business arena, celebrities, and specialized medical, corporate and civic groups, educational and financial institutions as well as government agencies.

Visit Barbara B. Bergstrom on the web at www.greetings-eps.com or reach her by email at greetingseps@aol.com; fax (407) 292-0306; or mail at P.O. Box 617554, Orlando, FL 32835.

You may contact her for speaking engagements, private sessions or customized in-house training seminars. Her programs are problem-solving, educational, motivational, professional, energetic and uncomplicated. The results are immediate!