Countries and Regions
Deciphering cultural codes of 100+ countries or regions to understand behaviors and optimize one' s professional action
Working with Germany
Summary
Target audience
Professionals who work with Germany
Prerequisite
No prerequisite
Objectives
Significantly increase participants’ effectiveness in their professional relations with people from Germany
At the end of the training, they will have keys to:
- Adopt an intercultural approach
- Understand the context and culture of Germany
- Decipher cultural codes and analyze situations of incomprehension
- Adapt their communication and working methods
- Decode decision-making and negotiation processes
Added value
- Conducted by an expert consultant specialized on Germany
- Decryption of the Nomad' Profile
- Alternating theory and practical exercises
- Access to Digital Learning for one year
- Sharing of best practices and individual action plan
Program
Step 1: E-learning
ADOPTING AN INTERCULTURAL APPROACH
- Specify your context and expectations
- Become aware of cultural filters
- Discover your cultural profile
Step 2: Group training session
Understanding German Cultural Codes
Discovering the cultural basics of Germany
- Regionalism, federalism, their place in Europe
- The Protestant Reformation and ethics
- Demographic evolution
- Importance of ecology
Understanding German values
- Adherence to rules and schedules
- Search for stability, caution in the face of risk
- Gemütlichkeit or “well-being” the German way
- Mitbestimmung or German-style group decision making
Optimize your professional action with Germans
Communicating with Germans
- Respect the German language to strengthen relations
- Communicate explicitly, directly and frankly
- Converse using detailed facts
Adapting work methods
- Build trust: respect for rank and listening skills
- Perform well: expertise, accuracy and precision
- Adopt a participative management style, master the meaning of team and the delegation
- Time management: planning, partitioning, precision
Conducting successful meetings and negotiations with Germans
- Understand the decision-making process: valuing experts, following the steps
- Manage conflicts: mediation, dialogue, decision
- Know the role of the unions and the Betriebsrat
- Draft a detailed written contract
Adopting best practices
- Recognize key principles
- Avoid pitfalls, mistakes and misunderstandings
- Create a tailor-made action plan
Step 3 : E-learning to go further
Explore Country Packs
Developing your knowledge of the country
- Cultural guidelines
- Business Life
- Overview
Available Inter-company courses Duration: 7 hours
New
format
1 day
* (Technical fees and lunch included)
Intra-company coursesDuration: to define
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