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Deciphering cultural codes of 100+ countries or regions to understand behaviors and optimize one' s professional action
Working with Cameroon
Summary
Target audience
Company managers and staff working and dealing with the Cameroonians
Prerequisite
No prerequisite
Objectives
The aim of this seminar is to significantly improve the participants’ effectiveness in their professional relationships with the Cameroonians, enabling them to be operational right from the start.
At the end of this training, participants will have acquired the necessary skills to:
- Be aware of their own cultural baggage
- Fully understand Cameroonian context and culture
- Analyze possible situations in which misunderstandings may arise and identify ways of communicating
- Reduce stress and misunderstandings
- Decipher and understand Cameroonian decision-making and negotiation processes
Added value
- Conducted by an intercultural expert consultant
- Decoding the Nomad’ Profiler
- Alternating theory and practical exercises
- Access to Digital Learning for 1 year
- Sharing best practices and personalized action plan
Program
Module 1 : Understanding cultural differences
1. Intercultural awareness, the key to success in international business
- Taking stock of one's own cultural baggage
- The basics of effective intercultural management
- Identifying and going beyond cultural stereotypes
2. Key aspects of Cameroonian culture
- A West African nation with numerous sources of wealth
- A population comprising 200 different ethnic groups
- The impact of French colonization
- A relatively stable economy
3. The impact of values and behaviour patterns on professional dealings and relationships
- A profoundly stratified patriarchal society
- The assertiveness of Cameroonian women
- Pride and a sense of honor
- A significant religious and spiritual tradition
- A flexible approach to time
- Les Lions Indomptables: a vital part of Cameroon's national identity
- Humour and irony
4. The Cameroonian corporate world
- A friendly yet formal and hierarchical atmosphere in the workplace.
- The dichotomy between the public and private sectors
- Low productivity
- Professional relationships
Module 2 : Succeeding in work with the Cameroonians
1. Effective communication with the Cameroonians
- Explicit communication.
- The importance of tactile contact in communication
- The circulation of information. Networking
- Deciphering non-verbal messages and ethnic aspects of communication
- The Cam-Fan-Glais, pidgin and the French language
2. Adapting your working methods
- Diplomacy, prudence and subtlety
- Building trust and confidence: an open mind, firmness and discipline
- Building a group culture in order to create staff loyalty
- Protecting, supervising and explaining
- Pitfalls to be avoided
3. Successful meetings and negotiations with the Cameroonians
- Meeting the right people
- Honesty and fairness
- Persevering and adapting
- Understanding written contracts, their interpretation and implications
- Organizing the post-negotiation phase
4. Final handy tips
- Caution, patience and humility
- Protocol and etiquette
- Social standards, gifts, business cards, dress code, etc
- Sensitive subjects: politics, history, religion
- Humour: a double-edged sword
Intra-company coursesDuration: to define
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