Some kinds of conflicts and misunderstanding are inevitable in cross-cultural context, if we know a little or nothing about our communication partner. Intercultural trainings and coaching are among the first methods equipping you with knowledge and widening your competencies to convey and properly interpret and understand the intentions and behavioral patterns of your business-partners in the Arab World. The offered array of training and coaching help you to understand your own cultural patterns and to compare this with the values and behavior of your Arabic business-partners without prejudgment. The aim of this is to understand your business-partner through successful communication and to evaluate the exact needs of the situation. This will pave the way to avoid uncertainties and lead definitely to a target-oriented co-operation and successful business.

In our trainings your develop skills and competencies for one or several Arab countries in concrete fields and situations such as team-building, negotiation, presentation, meetings, social integration on your target country in the Arab Region, leadership and the whole process of expatriation and many other aspects, which are influenced by cross-cultural differences.

Target group:

• International executives, who are going to work in one of the countries of the Arab Region.
• Project Manager of various departments (purchasing, export, sales, engineering, production, etc.) assigned for a certain task in an Arab country.
• Expatriates and other private persons interested in living and working in an Arab country.
• People who are often in contact with Arab clients, business partners, patients or passengers.
• Institutions, universities and companies organizing or executing training programs for Arab expatriates or delegations.

Seminar Goals

• Identifying cross-cultural differences between your own and your Arab counterpart. This will equip you with competencies which enable you to reach your goal and overcome uncertainties, which result from such different cultural patterns.
• You will learn the specific and somehow very unique patterns of Arab culture and how they form the mentality, business culture and work style.
• You will develop competencies to set strategies, how you overcome complicated situations and reach your goal effectively.
• You will learn the importance of the style-switching method in intercultural context and how you gain trust in front of your Arab business partner.
• You will impart abilities to estimate potential risk in a realistically way.