Culturally Sensitive Leadership: Leading teams successfully and competently in an international context An international working environment requires cultural sensitivity, particularly when it comes to leadership. This training combines leadership competencies with intercultural skills, and hence builds the base for successful and authentic leading in an international working environment. Globalization has led to the fact that...

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Working and communicating successfully with Indian business partners India as an economic power is becoming an increasingly important partner for Germany as a result of globalization. The world’s largest democracy with its economic growth of over 7% in 2015 offers an ideal sales market, as well as a highly attractive outsourcing destination for corporate processes...

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Working and communicating successfully with Arab business partners German businesspeople – as indeed Western businesspeople in general – often have difficulties in relating to Arab business culture, work and communication habits, and time management. “You have the clock, we have the time”, as an Arab proverb puts it. Many projects in Arab countries fail because...

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Working and communicating successfully in multinational virtual teams Successful international collaboration is not just a matter of language skills. Proficiency in English is a necessary basis for efficient global communication, but the competent deployment of communication tools such as e-mail, chat and webmeeting is a prerequisite too – and so is intercultural competence. This state-of-the-art...

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Laying the foundations for successful cross-cultural communication Contemporary working conditions routinely bring together people from different cultural backgrounds – cultural diversity in teams and work groups has become part of everyday working life in most areas. This two-day basic intercultural training seminar focuses on raising participants’ awareness of their own cultural conditioning (Self Assessment) and...

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A modular Train the Trainer course for Intercultural Trainers IKUD® Seminare have been offering a practice-oriented Train the Trainer course for intercultural trainers, audited and certified by the German Association for the Quality of Intercultural Training (Deutsche Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Trainingsqualität e.V., dgikt), since Autumn 2006. To date, more than 450 individuals have successfully obtained...

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Transcultural communication in “5 Cultures” The Five Cultures Game is an intensive, practical and theoretical intercultural training activity based on Michael Thompson’s cultural theory. It features scenarios in which teams with different cultural scripts join forces to work on concrete tasks. In the process of collaboration, participants not only express their own scripted cultural identities,...

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Leading intercultural and/or multinational teams successfully in an international context You have already gained initial experience in leading a department or a team, but you know that your team management experiences cannot simply be transferred to leading intercultural or multinational teams. You are aware of the fact that international leadership skills are becoming increasingly important...

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Present yourself and your ideas successfully in international contexts In contemporary business life, we are often confronted with international situations in which we have to present and prove ourselves and our ideas to others. Meeting these challenges requires candour but also substantial knowledge about, and sensitivity to, (cultural) differences and potential problems. Even the most...

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An overview of the particular methods of intercultural training You are already organising and implementing intercultural trainings, or are planning to work in this field, and would like to expand your methodological repertoire? This seminar will give you an introduction to the fundamentals of intercultural training. We present well-tried and self-developed materials and show you...

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Communicating successfully with U.S. Americans This seminar helps you gain a better understanding of interaction backgrounds in the U.S. – in business as well as in private contexts. You will be enabled to react to small talk in a flexible and competent way and communicate with Americans effectively. The workshop prepares you for short or...

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Communicating successfully with Turkish (business) partners Contact between Germans and Turks is often characterised by neglect, lack of knowledge and prejudice. Hence, situations in business and private life can be misread and hold the potential of conflicts and misunderstanding. The aim of this training is the prevention of such misinterpretations. This seminar prepares you for...

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Intercultural Training Russia Many business endeavours in Russia fail due to a lack of mutual understanding. German managers frequently shake their heads over the Russian market that seems irrational to them. Accordingly, they often overlook the fact that recognising the reasons for “typical Russian” behaviour leads to better cooperation. This seminar will help you understand...

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Communicating successfully with Chinese (business) partners China and Germany – these two countries have a lot in common: both have mastered the challenges of the economic crisis, both are considered economical growth drivers. Some of the major companies of German industry have been successful in China for more than 100 years. Since the 1980s, medium-sized...

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Communicating successfully with Japanese partners Japan, the widespread and now partially waning China euphoria notwithstanding, is an important partner from the Far East for Germany and Europe. This applies not only to trade relations, but increasingly to scientific and technological exchange on the high-tech level, as for example in collaboration projects on the International Space...

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A Two-Day Workshop on Designing Intercultural Training Materials This two-part workshop is intended for those who organise or implement intercultural training within an organisation, business, or project. The aim of the seminar, aside from a presentation of established simulations, is the development of participants’ own material. Simulations and role-play are methods of intercultural training, proven...

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