Workshops

Living and Working Abroad

This workshop prepares an outbound employee, spouse, and children to live and work effectively on an overseas assignment.

Training topics include:

• Key cultural differences between the expat's own and the destination culture.

• Differences in the business culture, business practices, management style, and communication styles of the two cultures.

• Key workplace-related cultural adjustments for the employee.

• Key cultural adjustments for the spouse and children.

• How much do I adjust? Striking a balance between cultural sensitivity and individual integrity.

• Culture shock and the stages of cultural adjustment for the employee, spouse, and children.

• Strategies for minimizing culture shock and enhancing expat effectiveness.

The workshop will explore cultural differences in the following areas:

• Communication style (giving feedback, disagreeing, saying ‘no’, the meaning of ‘yes’)

• Management styles

• Attitudes toward risk-taking

• Concepts of rank and status

• Concept of the team and teamwork, team-building

• Decision-making

This workshop really demystified culture shock for us; it gave us hope!

Craig’s own experiences, especially some of his hilarious stories, brought this content to life.

Culture shock is so personal I wasn’t expecting too much from this training, but the trainer gave us all a chance to identify some of our individual issues, and that was incredibly helpful.