Cross-cultural Workshop: October 20th

Working across Cultures Focus : China and France

Tuesday October 20, 2009

Chinese managers employed in multinational companies, and foreign managers working in China, face recurring challenges: they include how to communicate efficiently, how to manage productively and how to transfer knowledge smoothly. 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.

Objectives :
• 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

DOWNLOAD REGISTRATION FORM

To register, please complete and return the Registration form by FAX (010) 6512 1496 to the CCIFC Beijing before Tuesday October 13th, 2009

For further information, please contact HR Support Department, CCIFC Beijing
Karine Yue, Tel: (010) 6512 1740 ext 40, Email: trainingbj@ccifc.org