Communicate Across Cultures
Trainer: Sophia Gruner
Develop your intercultural skills
Culture is one of the most important underlying factors that makes your business succeed or fail. Intercultural success depends on your ability to take cultural differences into account when it comes to (online) discussions and encounters where you want to convince and inspire effectively. However, if you work in different cultures, what you “know” (think you know) about your own culture can be your biggest pitfall. Because it is all too easy to make assumptions about other cultures.
Communicating across cultures requires:
- Awareness of your own culture
- Awareness of other cultures
- Awareness that your interpretation of teamwork, time management or leadership might differ
- Inclusion of cultural commonalities and differences in your leadership and communication
The training Communicating Across Cultures combines experience and practical examples with recognized intercultural theory. It empowers you to be a more engaging, sensitive and successful communicator across cultures.
Master cross-cultural communication
Explore the concepts of culture and their impact on business flow and success
Learn how to communicate successfully with people from other cultures and avoid your biggest pitfall, which is what you think you know.
Rethink your perspectives, be challenged to think and act differently when necessary. We promise you new insights through practical and enjoyable learning. You can even follow this training in Dutch, English or German!
Culture is special. Every intercultural communication challenge is unique. Contact us and we will organize a no-obligation click conversation.
Want a bit of intercultural insight? Plan a free call.
Is this something for me?
Communicating Across Cultures is for you if…
- You are an entrepreneur looking for international business expansion
- You are an educator at higher professional or academic level and want to offer students the opportunity to prepare for working in a diverse, globally dispersed work environment
- You lead a company, department or project, and want to help your team communicate more clearly and efficiently
- You are a (HR) professional who considers personal development and competence development to be of paramount importance
- You are engaged in marketing, innovation, purchasing or partnerships, for example, to roll out products, services or collaborations internationally
- You are a (logistics) manager or supervisor with a diverse workforce who directs, coaches and develops your staff
Cultivating culture
Communicate Across Cultures will not only make you stronger and more self-confident. It will help people around you to learn from you as well. Cultivating intercultural awareness will lead to increased success in your collaborations, more satisfied employees and more creative ideas. It will differentiate you as a company, recognizing that cultural awareness is not a nice to have. In 2021 and beyond it is core business.
Once you’ve planted the seed of cross cultural awareness you will see an impact everywhere. In better leadership, better teamwork and better business interactions.
Customized training across cultures
Introduction workshop: 2 hours
- Explore the concepts of culture and their impact on business flow and success
Training: one-half day
- Explore the concepts of culture and their impact on business flow and success
- Investigate your own values, norms and beliefs and explore differences
- Learn about challenges and pitfalls in cross-cultural communication
Expand the training: a full day or two half days
- Receive tools to encourage cross-cultural teamwork and to be successful
- Explore leadership across cultures
- Learn practical tools to navigate cross-cultural teams operating remotely
Learn more about this training.
Sophia Gruner
Sophia believes that anyone you meet can teach you something. And that works both ways. Because Sophia is an energetic and charismatic trainer and advisor. She likes to guide people in developing their intercultural communication skills. She is also a teacher at Fontys University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and an entrepreneur.
Are you looking for someone who knows the business world and the common pitfalls of international communication? Are you ready to develop your intercultural skills?
