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Ghada Salah Gomaa

Business Etiquette and Protocol Consultant

Middle East

Protocol & Etiquette Academic Centre of Excellency-Middle East-PEACE

 

Ghada Salah Gomaa; first and sole business etiquette and protocol consultant-Middle East; is ‎the founder of the first and only Academic Center of Excellency; for the protocol and etiquette ‎in the Middle East; “PROTOCOL & ETIQUETTE ACADEMIC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCY-Middle East-‎PEACE” in April 2003.‎

Ms. Ghada Salah Gomaa is a Business Etiquette and Protocol Consultant who was working ‎with the American Chamber of Commerce in Cairo and the American University in ‎Cairo. ‎

In 1998, Ghada was certified by the “At Ease Incorporation”, an international institute ‎specializing in Business Etiquette and Protocol, and is the first and only licensed Business ‎Etiquette and Protocol Consultant in the Middle East. ‎

In 2000 Ms. Gomaa went to San Francisco in the United Stated of America for an updating in ‎the Asian Etiquette Certification Program. Ghada also holds a degree in English Drama from ‎Ain Shams University in the year 1983. ‎

Ms. Gomaa joined the African Youth Program in Japan in the year 1994. The African Youth ‎Program was coordinated by the JICA “Japanese International Cooperation Agency” to study ‎Pyiets’ Theories in teaching and training adults.‎

Ms Gomaa achieved a degree of “Honorable Doctorate”, in 2001 from “AtEase ‎Incorporation-Ohio-USA” at San Francisco, upon a research on applying the 2222 Etiquette ‎Global Rules, on 2222 Quran Verses, to prove that origin of Etiquette is Islam.‎

In June 2004 Ghada graduated 32 diplomats from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at Kuwait, ‎after delivering 160 hours of Protocol Training, and covering only 30 cultures from 150 global ‎cultures.‎

In March 2006 Ghada Graduated another 35 diplomats from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at ‎Kuwait, after delivering 160 hours of Protocol and Business Etiquette Training, covering 60 ‎global cultures, how to deal with hot sticky political situation, as well as political professional ‎correspondence, and media presentation.‎

Since her certification, Ghada has consulted and offered training workshops to several large ‎multinational and joint venture companies in Egypt such as The Ramses Hilton, Nile Hilton, ‎Nestle, the American University in Cairo, Conrad International Hotel, MobiNil, Cairo Barclays ‎Bank, Egyptian American Bank; their branches of Cairo, Alexandria, Sharm El Sheikh and ‎Luxor, Egyptian British Bank, The Arab Bank, The United Bank, National Societe Generale ‎Bank/NSGB,American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt. Spacetel in Yemen, a ‎telecommunication company and Sabafon, another telecommunication at Yemen, ‎

Sana’a; as well as SpacetelSyria. Procter and Gamble in Cairo, Protech Nokia, customer ‎service staff, Arab International Insurance Company, Business Etiquette programs prepared ‎by the PSDP. This is beside the Protocol and Business Etiquette trainings which were ‎delivered to Junior Diplomats of the Ministry of Foreign Affair of Kuwait.‎

In July 2006 Ghada launched the opening of “ areeba-Afghanistan” a telecommunication ‎company at Kabul.‎

In August and September 2006 Ghada covered 150 cultures, through a protocol sessions, to ‎Movenpick chain in the Middle East, as Gouna, Qusar, Aqaba, Petra, Dead Sea and Jordan. ‎

January 2006, Ghada delivered a business etiquette training to British Council-Customer ‎Care staff, for the three branches, at Egypt, Cairo/Agoza, Alexandria and Heliopolis.‎

BNP is counted a client to Ghada’s client list since July and August 2006, where “Fine Touch ‎of Business Etiquette” a business etiquette training delivered to juniors of BNP.‎

Since October 2005 till now (October 2006) Ghada delivered TV weekly program through ‎ESC (Egypt Fadaeya Channel) every Saturday, as well as the Nile TV (Our Hour) every ‎Monday, and a daily program on Channel 2.‎

Ghada delivered a number of Social Etiquette Seminars in the year 2005 and 2006 such as; “ ‎Fine Tune your Attitude”, “ Ten Tunes to Play Life Melody” , “ Tune Stress in a Life Melody” , “ ‎Ms/Mr. Manners” etc.‎

Other carnivals and fairs, are conducted by Dr. Ghada Gomaa, in the year 2005 and 2006 ‎with her consultants Team of PEACE Academy such as; “ Business Etiquette Passage to ‎Customer Loyalty” , “ Eagle of Management in a Free Market Horizon” and “ King of Sales in ‎a Risky Kingdom” ‎

‎“ Business Etiquette in Brief” a three hours session, is conducted by Dr. Ghada Gomaa, to the ‎BEBA members, and the guest of honor was Sir and Lady Plumbly (British Ambassador in ‎Egypt, at the Nile Hilton in November 2004.‎

Ghada delivered a business career diplomas to American University Staff in 2005 and 2006 ‎and another contract, for the new Academic year is signed with the American University in ‎Cairo for the year 2006 till June 2007, with Ms Amira Khattab, the training manager of the ‎American University in Cairo.‎
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Ghada has expertise in a range of business etiquette topics and offers training program such ‎as: Etiquette for A to Z Professionalism, Business Etiquette is a Passage for Customer ‎Loyalty, Eagle of Management in a Free Market Horizon, A to Z Customer Care for ‎Excellency, Business Etiquette of Professional Conversationalist, Business Etiquette of ‎Professional Correspondence, Etiquette of Professional Secretaries, Etiquette of First ‎Impressions, Etiquette of Intercultural Communication, Protocol as a Managerial Tool, ‎Etiquette of Customer Interactions, Etiquette of Customer Care for Loyalty, Etiquette of ‎Customer Service, Business Etiquette of Training Managers to Train, Etiquette of ‎Professional Correspondence, Etiquette of Professional Communication, Etiquette of serving ‎clients through writing, Etiquette of grooming and hygiene and business Etiquette in brief, ‎Business Etiquette of Time Office Management, Business Etiquette of Professional ‎Leadership Skills/ Sheepherding vs. Shepherding, as well as Business Etiquette of ‎Professional Communication & Presentation Skills.‎

Ghada delivered and is still delivering, Social Etiquette Public seminars every five weeks, for ‎four hours (Social Etiquette is Behavioral Science). Seminars examples are; “Fine Tune your ‎Attitude”, “Ten Tunes to Play Life”, at Intercontinental Pyramids Park, Omm Kalthom Ball ‎Room. These Social Etiquette Seminars, are held as a participation from Dr. Gomaa, in social ‎reformation through better the attitude of the Egyptian and Arab manpower.‎

Ghada also established in the “Protocol & Etiquette Academic Centre of Excellency-Middle East-Middle ‎East-PEACE” different schools of training; such as Marketing School of Excellency, ‎Management School of Excellency, Professional Secretaries School of Excellency, ‎Leadership School of Excellency, Sales School of Excellency etc. Different training programs ‎are delivered in these schools by 150 different specialist and professional consultant. ‎

This is beside the Business Development Consultation in the Marketing, Human Resources ‎and the Project Management; consulted by the most specialists in the business market, and ‎the most unique consultants in each of these domains.‎

Ghada also was writing a daily article for El Gomhoria Newspaper on Social Etiquette, a ‎weekly article for Horyatty, different articles for Novertis (pharmaceutical magazine, on ‎business etiquette, a monthly article for “Life”, prepares and presents an on-going television ‎program for Nile Sat TV, Channel 3, weekly program at Channel 2, ART, and ESC channel ‎that covers social and business etiquette issues. She was also interviewed on the Orbit and ‎Good Evening Egypt and Good Morning Egypt. Ghada writes a monthly article in 1000 ‎‎“Words in Pictures” and “Egypt Insight” on Business Etiquette.‎

Ghada had a weekly program at Channel 2addressing youth and fresh graduates, and junior ‎businessmen (entrepreneurship) to passé the message of wearing professional mask in the ‎global and local business market. ‎

Every Friday, since the year 2003 till May 2005 and weekly, every Saturday on El Fadaeya El ‎Mesreya at 1:15 p.m. till 2:00, addressing Arab Families, in different social concepts ‎
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Ms. Gomaa succeeded to implement Business Etiquette as a main subject in “Sadat ‎Academy”, in the Canadian Program starting from September 2001 for forth year students. ‎

Ghada is usually invited as a guest of honor, and as an example BEBA Reception for ‎honoring Sir and Lady Plumbly; Minister of UK in Egypt, it was at the Hilton, also on Women’s ‎day, March 2005, she was the guest of honor to the celebration held by Top Management of ‎Barclays Bank. Also Enppi top management hosted Dr. Ghada Gomaa, as a guest of honor, ‎and delivered a seminar introducing the etiquette as a new and essential subject in the ‎training field and important to all professionals; it was in August 2004. Rotary and Rotaract ‎also used to invite Dr. Gomaa as a guest of honor since the year 1998.‎

BUSINESS ETIQUETTE AND PROTOCOL

Business etiquette and protocol is now important in the workplace as all are after ‎professionalism in this era of globalization. Either to leave a positive first impression and to ‎grab up the business or to lose it for good. This would be done if business global rules are ‎followed scientifically. In business etiquette and protocol workshops you learn the do’s and ‎taboos of actions, words and appearance with bosses, colleagues, clients and yourself. The ‎participants will easily reflect a positive image of the company.‎

Example of the Business Etiquette Training Program

‎1.‎ Business Etiquette is a Passage for Excellency
‎2.‎ Business Etiquette is a Passage for Customer Loyalty
‎3.‎ Business Etiquette of Professional Conversationalist
‎4.‎ Eagle of Management in a Free Market Horizon
‎5.‎ How to Swim with Marketing Sharks
‎6.‎ King of Sales in a Risky Kingdom
‎7.‎ Business Etiquette Of Professional Customer Interaction ‎
‎8.‎ Business Etiquette Of Giving Good Service
‎9.‎ Business Etiquette Of Dealing With Difficult Customers
‎10.‎ Business Etiquette of Professional Marketing Skills
‎11.‎ Business Etiquette of Professional Selling Skills
‎12.‎ Business Etiquette of Professional Marketing Strategy
‎13.‎ Business Etiquette of Professional Marketing Creative Advertising
‎14.‎ Etiquette Of Grooming And Hygiene
‎15.‎ Telephone Etiquette/ how to be phonogenic on Phone‎
‎16.‎ Sheepherding vs. Shepherding/Fundamentals of Professional Leadership
‎17.‎ Business Etiquette of Professional Communicational & Interaction Skills
‎18.‎ Business Etiquette of Professional Selling Negotiation Skills
‎19.‎ Business Etiquette of Professional Integrated Marketing Plan
‎20.‎ Business Etiquette of Professional Questioning Techniques in Selling
‎21.‎ Office Etiquette And Protocol
‎22.‎ Business Etiquette In Brief
‎23.‎ Business Etiquette Of Intercultural Communication
‎24.‎ Business Etiquette Of Handling Stress
‎25.‎ Business Etiquette Of Professional Secretarial Skills
‎26.‎ Business Etiquette Of Dealing With People You Cannot Stand
‎27.‎ Business Etiquette Of Dealing With Difficult Bosses, Colleague And ‎Subordinates
‎28.‎ Etiquette Of Conversation And First Impression
‎29.‎ Etiquette Of Serving Clients Through Writing
‎30.‎ Etiquette Of Dealing With Disabled
‎31.‎ Business Etiquette Of Customer Service And Parts Of Tens

 

Client list/1998-2008

Middle East

• Spacetel Yemen (Telecommunication Company)‎
• SabaFon (Telecommunicaion Company)‎
• Spacetel Syria (Telecommunication Company)‎
• Syria Airlines
• Junior Diplomats at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Kuwait (2004-2006)‎
• Movenpick Aqaba
• Movenpick Petra
• Movenpick Dead Sea
• Movenpick Dubai
• MTN-Sudan
• Areeba-Afghanistan
• Dal-Group Sudan
• Kuwait Fundraising of the Middle East ‎

• British Council - Jordan


Egypt - Tailored Programs:‎

• American University in Cairo ‎
• American Chamber of Commerce in Cairo ‎
• Conrad Hotel-Cairo ‎
• Semiramis Intercontinental-Cairo
• Nestle ‎
• Egyptian American Bank ‎
• Barclays Bank
• Egyptian British Bank ‎
• Arab Bank ‎
• United Bank ‎
• Ramses Hilton ‎
• Nile Hilton ‎
• Procter and Gamble ‎
• Protech-Nokia ‎
• MobiNil ‎
• Elegant Voyage-Agent Company of Tourism‎
• Berlitz ‎
• Arab International Insurance Company/Allianz
• Metro market staff ‎
• Shell of Egypt
• Central Bank of Egypt – Egyptian Banking Institute – EBI‎
• MIBank (Egypt)‎
• National Societe Generale Bank/NSGB
• EGB/Egyptian Gulf Bank
• Enppi (Seminar) ‎
• Hyatt Regency ‎
• EGB (Egyptian Gulf Bank)‎
• Central Bank of Egypt
• Misr Bank
• National Bank of Oman ‎
• Cairo Bank
• British Council in Egypt (Cairo-Heliopolis-Alexandria)‎
• Movenpick Heliopolis
• Movenpick Gouna
• Movenpick Qusar
• Orascom Hotels and Development
• Orascom Constructions Industries
• Piraeus Bank
• BNP (Paribas Le Caire)‎
• Mohamed Junior Beauty Centre Company
• Abercrombie and Kent Egypt
• Audi bank

• Dar El Fouad Hospital

• Raya Holding

• Credit Agricole Egypt

• Orbit

• Emaar Misr

• Amer Group

• Ultimate Business Solutions (UBS)


Egypt – Public Programs

• In the American University in Cairo (AUC)‎
• In the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt (AmCham)‎
• Participants in the public programs:‎

‎1.‎ PGESCo
‎2.‎ BP (British Petroleum)‎
‎3.‎ Thomas Cook
‎4.‎ Alico
‎5.‎ Lecico
‎6.‎ Ghazala Hotel
‎7.‎ Youssef Allam & Co.‎
‎8.‎ Pricewaterhousecooper
‎9.‎ LINKdotNET
‎10.‎ Basma Hotel
‎11.‎ Movenpick-Resort
‎12.‎ Volvo
‎13.‎ BMW
‎14.‎ Oriental Weavers
‎15.‎ International Gas Petroleum
‎16.‎ American Express Cards
‎17.‎ Arab Misr Insurance Group
‎18.‎ Bahgat Group
‎19.‎ Fujitsu Services – Egypt‎
‎20.‎ House of Donuts
‎21.‎ Raya Telecom
‎22.‎ Toyota Egypt
‎23.‎ City Group

24. Nile Hilton

25. Ragab Sons