Crosscultural Workshop Focus China-France, March 10th

Chinese managers employed in multinational companies, and foreign managers working in China, face recurring challenges: how to communicate efficiently, how to manage productively and how to transfer knowledge smoothly etc. Very often the underlying and unexplored causes of these difficulties are cultural.

This workshop will directly address these issues and help the participants develop their competence and learn how to be more effective in working across cultures. It will highlight the three levels at which culture in a business environment comes into play: individual, collective and organizational, and will focus particularly on Franco-Chinese cultural gaps.

Throughout the workshop we share and develop best practices for dealing with cultural differences in the participants’ particular work environments. We identify strategies and tactics which address the business activities directly relevant and applicable to the participants’ individual needs. Participants will analyze their own cultural profiles and design their individual action plans.

BENEFITS:
• Recognize, Respect and Reconcile cultural differences
• Build effective skills for communicating and managing across cultures
• Acquire valuable information needed to employ appropriate behavioural strategies when conducting business in a cross-cultural environment
• Gain insights into working with partners from France and China
• Build side-by-side cultural profiles for French and Chinese cultures which provide the foundation for cross-cultural understanding and have relevance to the participants’ objectives
• Develop personal cultural profiles encouraging an understanding of the unique characteristics each participant brings to all cross-cultural interaction

KEY TOPICS:
• Individual cultural profile
• Simultaneous profiles for French and Chinese cultures
• Communication styles
• Relationship building
• Conducting face-to-face or distance meetings
• Decision-making patterns
• Reasoning styles
• Strategies for leveraging cultural differences as assets

METHODS:
• Lectures
• Individual Profile assessment
• Case Studies
• Interactive Exercises

TRAINER :
Edith Coron is a global leadership and intercultural communication coach and trainer based in Beijing, China. She provides a wide range of international corporations with coaching services and training programs in Global Competencies, Intercultural Awareness, Multicultural Team Building, Multiculturalism and Globalisation and International Mobility Training.

Her clients include Accor, Airbus, Alcan, Alcatel, Areva, Auchan, Aventis, Danone, Decathlon, Degussa, EDF Asia Pacific, Michelin, Monsanto, Novartis, Novozymes, Saint Gobain, Schneider Electric, Société Générale, Oshkosh, Procter and Gamble, PWC, Siemens, Spansion, Tyco and Wolseley.

A member of SIETAR (Society for Intercultural Education Training and Research), she has studied in the intercultural field with leading theoreticians and practitioners. She is certified to deliver the Cultural Orientations Indicator®, to apply the REN Coaching Model© (coaching adapted to Chinese values) and use the Polaris ® 360° assessment profile. She is also a member of the Asia Pacific Alliance of Coaches, the International Coach Federation, and Global Coaches Network.

Edith Coron has lived and worked over the past 25 years, in China, France, Russia, Israel, the USA, the United Kingdom, Latin America, West and North Africa.

CCIFC Beijing - HR Support Department
Inquiry :
Karine Yue, Tel: (010) 6512 1740 ext 40, Email: yue.karine@ccifc.org
Registration:
Rose Zhang, Tel: (010) 6512 1740 ext 11, Email: zhang.rose@ccifc.org Fax: (010) 6512 1496

Please download Registration Form and return it to the CCIFC Beijing
by FAX or EMAIL (scanned copy with company chop) before Tuesday March 2nd, 2010.