Imagine following scenario: you get a new assignment from your company. Your mission is to manage the local subsidiary in one of the emerging Arab cities. This Assignment will take some years and you have the option to renew and to move to another Arab country. Of course, you have already planed that your family will be following you few weeks later. You and your family have compared and weighed all the risks and chances before taking this decision. Shortly after the relocation you and each member of the family experience real stress: isolation, different working environment, adjustment difficulties, culture shock, homesickness, fear of the foreign culture, loneliness, and mental stress that put your performance and success of the assignment in doubt!

This is a typical situation, that the majority of expatriates have experienced. In our two-day semianr you and your family will be preapared for the cross-cultural differences between your own culture and the Arab cultural patterns in diverse areas of daily and working life and whichs issues are related to living and working abroad, relocating and settling.

Content

You will receive practical answers through action-oriented approach to the following questions:

• What should I expect in my Arab target country?
• What are the formalities, documents and documents I need?
• How do I prepare before the relocation and which services can I claim?
• What is the daily life in my Arab country? What about health care on my residence place? Which kind of recreational opportunities to be found there?
• What are the no-goes? Which kind of behavior should be avoided?
• What is the role of Islam and religion in society and how the religious orientation influenced the life style of people in everyday life and in business issues?
• What are the differences in working life and style? What do the native people expect of a Western expa?
• What about social integration for me and my family?
• Which experiences have others in the Arab world to tell?
• How can I improve my skills to provide solutions, guidelines and techniques to build cross-cultural teams?

Tailored content

Upon booking, you will be emailed a pre-seminar questionnaire which will help to define your specific cross-cultural communications challenges and shape the content of the seminar according to your needs.

Who should attend?

International managers, employees and entrepreneurs who:

• move to live and work in an Arab country or more countries in the Middle East region.
• sell to, buy from, or negotiate with Arab business partners for long-term
• are in international assignment and relocation programmes
• Please find further information, if you are interested in one country or target region only. Our training programm "live and work in ........" offers you detailed information.

Seminar Methods

Combination of lectures, practical examples, Interactive Simulation, experiences, questions, discussions and team work on case studies.

Seminar Language

This seminar can be offerd in one of the three following languages:

• English
• German
• Arabic

The pre-seminar questions can be in German, English or Arabic.

Venue and Dates

Our open seminars will be held in a conference room in Dortmund. Please ask us for the current date and any further information you need!

The seminars can be booked as in-company, customized training sessions any time worldwide!