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Intercultural skills development workshop

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Managing and collaborating in an intercultural context: the essentials

Intercultural management is a complex challenge for teams made up of several nationalities, cultures and/or backgrounds. And it’s often these teams that manage important projects within the company.

What’s the most effective way to detect intercultural problems and learn to manage them? How can this lead to more fruitful collaboration and increased team performance?

Testimonials from employees who took part in an intercultural skills workshop

Chloé

Manager of an infrastructure project in Egypt

“On our project, between the clients, the entrepreneurs and my team, there were at least 15 nationalities. Many of them were Egyptian, Lebanese and French. We didn’t understand each other anymore, and this was compromising the success of the project. The coaches helped us to better understand that we each came with our own obvious ideas that could offend the others. In two days, we laid the foundations for a more serene collaboration within the team and with the client.”

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Romain, France

Within three years, our company was bought by Americans, then we merged with a German team. The intercultural training allowed us to define our differences and set common rules.

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Valérie, Belgium

The seminar we organized with Expat Communication for the entire HR function worldwide was a decisive step in getting to know each other better, creating links and working together better.

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Jacob, France

Relations with our Indian partner were becoming dangerously tense. With the coaches, we mainly worked to find common points and synergies. Collaboration is still complicated, but we are better at spotting problems and we have a method for clearing them.

The objectives of these Intercultural Management courses

1. Develop sustainable intercultural intelligence of management teams working in an international context. Enable all parties to understand their own cultural frameworks as well as those of others.

2. Identify the challenges of collaborating in a multicultural context. Discover the notions of cultural gaps, stereotypes, and misunderstandings. Situational role plays and group work are adapted to the cultures involved.

3. Develop best practices to manage cultural differences in the working environment of each team.

Tailor-made programmes

These intercultural management workshops can take place on our premises or those of your company, in French or English. It can also be organized it online. TheThe duration is adapted according to the company’s objectives and the availability of employees.

The content is adapted to the challenges that team faces:

Countries studied: This may be one or more countries, or even a cultural group (e.g. France, Germany, Anglo-Saxon countries, India, the Middle East, etc.).

Problem: The training can be general, in “working with” mode, or more specific: selling, communicating, managing conflict, giving a presentation, etc.

Case studies: The pillars of our teaching approach are drawn from the team’s working context.

These intercultural skills development workshops can be one-off initiatives to meet a specific need. They can also be part of an overall cultural transformation of the organisation.

A personalized intercultural management program

These intercultural training sessions often take the form of team-building seminars for intercultural teams.

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Organizing an intercultural management program for your company

If you would like to organise a training course on a date and in a way that suits you, please let us know the context and 3 slots to schedule a meeting with the Expat Communication team.

This meeting will establish the framework of the program and will allow us to select the expert whose background and experience will best meet your objectives.

Challenges expats face for the return home

Key statistic: 70%

According to 70% of expatriates, their return from expatriation was either “difficult” or “very difficult.”
Learn more in our Barometer report on the return home.

The Return home survey 2022

Every year, the Expat Communication barometer reveals that the return is the most challenging period of expatriation.

Expats are faced with lonliness and/or feeling misunderstood; they find it hard to explain or give value to their time abroad, and may even experience a drop in their quality of living. The challenges when returning home are unanimously recognized and cited.

However, this is the step for which companies often provide the least amount of support.

As an expat states very candidly,

“When you’re preparing for your arrival abroad, someone carries your suitcase for you; when coming home they let the door slam in your face.”

Today, we have the resources to ease this step and prevent the challenges a badly handled return from expatriation causes for the company and the employee.

Expat Communication programs for international mobility

Our promise:

Give international assignees the keys to mobility to facilitate their intergration and return home.

To do this, we have developed comprehensive training programs that address the personal and professional aspects of international mobility as well as cultural integration and international career management (skills development, the relationship with headquarters, preparation for the return home).

An essential complement to all of our training programs for international assignees is the Club Expat Premium, which, with a weekly newsletter and outstanding content, provides the resources needed for a succesful expatriation.