Working with France

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Summary

Target audience

Managers and employees who work with France

Prerequisite

No prerequisite

Objectives

Significantly increase participants’ effectiveness in their professional relationships with their French counterparts.

  • Acquire an intercultural framework to better understand behaviors
  • Explore the cultural reference points of the French context
  • Decode communication and organizational styles
  • Adjust and embed professional practices
  • Decode decision-making and negotiation processes

Access Modalities and Entry Assessment

  • Average access time: 2 weeks
  • Completion of a prior questionnaire and/or e-learning module before the training to identify needs and adapt the content

Evaluation Modalities

  • In-training assessments: e-learning module, quizzes, role plays, case studies, etc.
  • End-of-training assessment: evaluation completed by consultants to assess the achievement of training objectives, immediate feedback questionnaire including a self-assessment section

Added value

ACCESSIBILITY

All our training courses are accessible to people with disabilities. Each training project will be the subject of a case study by our teams, in order to adapt the training program. Please do not hesitate to contact us to discuss the possible options : r.dubert@akteos.fr

Program


Step 1: E-learning

Exploring your preferences and cultural gaps

  • Clarify your context and expectations
  • Become aware of cultural filters
  • Discover your cultural profile

Step 2: On-site or remote training

Decoding French culture

  • Cross-cultural representations and mutual perceptions
  • Key historical, geographical, social and philosophical reference points
  • Keys to understanding behaviors in their cultural context

Understanding the values and norms of French society

  • The core values of French society
  • Relationship to power, autonomy and hierarchy
  • Critical thinking, the place of debate, managing uncertainty
  • Ways of reasoning, the role of rules and frameworks

Working with / Managing French colleagues

  • Implicit codes of professional communication
  • French-style management and corporate culture, delegation, motivation
  • Relationship to trust, time, risk and conflict
  • Managing time and deadlines

Adapting working methods

  • Understanding how a French company is organized: procedures, decision-making, working methods and the notion of quality
  • Specific features of French-style meetings
  • Common business practices and group dynamics
 

Remote follow-up session 2 to 3 months after the training, for intra-company courses.

Available inter-company coursesDuration: 7 hours

March 25, 2027

remote session

1020 €HT/PERS.

Training session held in English

September 28, 2027

on-site, in Paris

1120 €HT/PERS.*

Training session held in English

* Technical fees and lunch included

To register yourself or one of your colleagues for one of these sessions, email us at interentreprises@akteos.fr or fill in our contact form.

Intra-company coursesDuration: to define
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