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In today’s global business world, cultural differences profoundly influence how people think, communicate, and behave. Understanding cultural differences is a key requirement for successful global business.

This interactive one-day workshop helps you to structure the often complex challenge at hand. During the workshop, we look at major ways in which cultural differences impact communication and cooperation over national boundaries, using participants’ real cases as examples.

As a participant you will learn a proven approach for handling intercultural communication.

This approach helps you to:
- Identify cultural differences that may arise in international business
- Create strategies for preparing and achieving successful communication across cultures
- Anticipate and avoid possible misunderstandings

Themes:
• Attitudes to business around the globe
• Building trust despite cultural differences
• Attitudes to time
• Attitudes to people
• Decision-making and agreement building
• Hierarchy and power
• Communication styles
• The hidden meaning of words
• Own cases – analysis and discussion
• Strategies for improving intercultural negotiation

This Workshop is a co-operation between SSE IFL and Key Corporate Training. Neil Shipley and Lynn Gans are Managing Partners of Key Corporate Training with long experience from multinational companies such as AstraZeneca, AtlasCopco, Ericsson, SKF, Sun Microsystems, TietoEnator, Swedish Match, The Swedish Institute, Invest in Sweden Agency, the Swedish Cabinet Office, the Prime Minister’s Office and the Swedish Foreign Office.

För vem?
The workshop targets executives, who need to collaborate, communicate and establish trust with people from cultures other than their own, i.e., colleagues, key customers or business partners.