ELEGANCE

In a noisy, busy world, elegance gives pause to allow your best qualities to come through.

When a body is composed of parts smooth, polished and not pressing each other, without confusion, we call it elegant. 

A thing that is elegant will not be laughed at.   Elegance never appears forced, it appears easy and natural, even when it is not.

Elegance doesn’t need luxury or riches, but offers value, usefulness and purpose.  It doesn’t imitate the beauty of nature, but it does celebrate it.

Elegance creates calm and focus of mind, and commands attention.  It infers grace, simplicity of intent, inner beauty and approaching achievement.

Elegance classes

Manners Maketh Man

An evocative expression from the fourteenth-century British educator William Wykeham, who founded Winchester College and New College, Oxford – re-stated by a nineteenth-century American writer – “wherever the demeanour and life of a man are good, let me get as near to him as he will allow, that I may take his hand, though it be black and hardened by his anvil”.

This notion has more use in our modern world.  We judge a book by its cover, as we have many books presented to us.  First impressions are important to us, because we are skilled to discover, as quickly as we can, the people we would most value, and wish to spend time with.

We are too wise to believe that manners are in themselves of enormous value, more they can be a signpost to what lies further on.  Not an infallible guide, but often a useful one.

The best manners today offer not a sense of breeding, but a flag showing a person’s habitual bearing and demeanour.

Elegance is linked to taste and Fashion to enjoyment.  The first pleases generally, and the other still more; Elegance is only successful, Fashion is triumphant; but in such a way, that Elegance' success is durable and Fashion's triumph the extreme success of a moment.

Elegance has the merit of reality, fashion that of circumstances and locality.  Fashion is free and arbitrary, Elegance is at all times and in all places, and becomes all features and all ages.

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London, 1^st March 2010

The University Of Excellence

Experts see vast increase in Oxford University Leadership Secrets course participation in 2010

As competition in the work force is becoming fiercer than ever, it seems that leaders in business want to up their professional game, to be the most confident, the most dynamic, the most influential amongst their peers. And they are using a Finishing School to give them that powerful edge.

Beatons Finishing School of High Society Secrets have seen a 67% increase (YOY) in the number of top business personnel booking a place on their Leadership Secrets courses at Oxford University.

Beatons specialists in voice, deportment, presentation and grooming take you through the techniques to ensure optimum high status amongst your work colleagues and divulge the secrets of success of the world’s top leaders. The course also includes classes with senior UK and US leaders in business.

A Beatons’ Leadership Secrets expert explains :

« Natural leaders have a confidence, a charisma and a unique style which inspires others to follow…Once you have learned high status posture, movement, voice and style secrets you will reveal a justified self assurance, which is the basis for personal and professional success. »

The One Week Change Leadership Secrets programme at Oxford University runs from 19^th-23^rd April priced at £2595 and limited places are still available to book now. Price includes accommodation, classes and lunch with senior UK and US business leaders.

Beatons is London and New York's premier finishing school for men and women offering fast finishing school classes in poise, polish and posture.

Beatons has classes in the UK, USA, Switzerland and the Caribbean.

For more information please visit www.beatons.org .

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