Act successfully across cultures - improve international collaboration

Understand cultural differences and turn diversity into productive collaboration.

Successful international collaboration requires more than good intentions. Different expectations regarding communication, trust, time, hierarchy and decision-making can slow down projects and cause conflict.

In this training, you reflect on your own cultural background and learn practical tools that help you understand other cultures and analyse real business situations from different perspectives.

Your benefits

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After the training, you will be able to:

• recognise the influence of your own cultural background

• interpret unfamiliar behaviour more accurately

• reduce premature judgements and unconscious bias

• analyse cultural differences with practical tools

• recognise and resolve misunderstandings constructively

• adapt your communication to different contexts

• build trust in international business relationships and teams

• establish shared working practices for more efficient collaboration

Key topics

Your own cultural background · perception and perspective-taking · unconscious bias and stereotypes · Culture Map · building trust · communication styles · time and planning · hierarchies and decision-making · feedback and conflict · transfer into daily business