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Managing and collaborating in an intercultural context: the essentials

Intercultural management is a complex challenge for teams composed of different nationalities, cultures and 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?

What managers have said about this program

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 the Intercultural Management program

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.

A personalized intercultural management program

This collective program is designed for all teams in an international or multicultural context.

It can be held in our offices or on-site in your company, in French or English. It can also be organized it online. Theduration and timing of the program is adapted to your company’s objectives and the availability of your employees.

The content is adapted to the challenges that team faces:

COUNTRY-SPECIFIC – This could mean diving into the culture of one or several countries, or even a cultural grouping (for example, France, Germany, Anglo-saxon countries, India, the Middle East…)

CHALLENGES – The training can be general, in a “how to work better with” mode, or can take into account more specific challenges: selling, communicating, managing conflicts, making a presentation, etc.

PRACTICAL CASE STUDIES – these are the pillars of our pedagogy, and are drawn from the team’s work context.

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"Intercultural Management"

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Organizing an intercultural management program for your company

To organize this training program in accordance with your needs and specific situation, please indicate the context and 3 possible time slots for an appointment with an Expat Communication consultant.

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.

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