When exploring unheard-of or relatively unknown territories, you are always confronted with the stressful situation of encountering unfamiliarity - a situation which one experiences more or less consciously and which, depending on the individual personality, is dealt with in a variety of ways.

There are several reasons why people within the business world might find themselves in such a situation:

• cooperation with people from different cultural contexts
• leadership of intercultural teams
• business negotiations in other countries
• meetings with business partners from abroad
• terms abroad of employees for a shorter or longer period of time
• vacation

In each of these cases intercultural training has the purpose of

• lessening the stress and strain that stem from encounters with new, unfamiliar grounds by conveying coping strategies and methods of dealing with such situations
• facilitating the acquisition of competencies that enable you to imply respect to members of other cultures
• enabling you to constructively and successfully organize your intercultural tasks.

By the way: Acquiring intercultural competencies not only enables you to work more successfully - your business partners also benefit from cooperating with somebody who makes an effort to encounter them and their cultural background in an adequate and respectful manner: this is an important step towards a fruitful cooperation!

In more detail, intercultural training addresses:

• management training
• leadership competencies
• mergers and acquisitions
• strategic alliances and business co-operations
• processes of restructuring
• personnel- and organizational development
• self development processes
• coaching of executive officials
• negotiation skills training
• multinational team-building / team restructuring
• support of team work
• briefings in preparations of terms abroad
• coaching of returnees
• distribution- and marketing competencies