Cross Cultural Communications for International Leaders

Topics: 

• The Leader's Guide to Understanding and Working WITH Culture:
  
  • a. When it can be changed
    
  • b. When we need to adapt
    
  • Creating Your Own Team Culture
    
• What do each of us bring WITH us?
  
• Podolinsky's  Proprietary BEST approaches to every country:
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    • Business: Rules and Policies, General Practices and Norms, Layers to penetrate, Who really decides
      
    • Etiquette: Conduct and Manners, Gifting, Ethics
    • Social: Manners, Connections, Appropriateness, Expectations
    • Time Considerations including Punctuality, Length of meetings and dinners and how fast deals can be made
      
• Context VS Content in each culture, including the power of gender, age, credentials and how to set-up your team for success and avoid the pitfalls many have suffered
  
• Setting your Strategic Cultural POA (Plan Of Action) and how to set up a POA for each country you are working with or an overall guiding etiquette for your group or organisation
  
• From business cards to sitting, considerations in different cultures:
  
• The rules of business etiquette
  
• Food, the glue that binds us
  
• 8 Ways to endear yourself in almost any culture
  
• Don’t confuse culture with government regulations
  
• Successful Negotiations:
  
  • a. How to negotiate across international borders
    
  • b. Three elements to ALWAYS control
    
• Business Savvy: How to keep from going bankrupt when doing business overseas (and why many DO)
• Case Studies: Successful strategies in dealing with different regional cultures
• Presentation skills:
  
  • a. Dealing with interpreters VS. translators (both simultaneous and concurrent)
    
  • b. The overseas media and how to get your message across
• At the end of each agenda point, participants will have the opportunity to share, compare and contrast ideas.