Cross-Cultural
relocation training
Middle East and North Africa
Bridge the cultural differences with our trainings for expats and accelerate your adjustment!
- This cross-cultural relocation training for expatriates moving to work and live in the Middle East and North Africa will help them and their family to adjust culturally and psychologically to live and work in the new destination country.
- The training is designed to cover regional knowledge about the whole region and is intended for leaders, project managers and participants working and travelling across the region. Our offer includes courses for single countries and different options.
- This course will provide practical information and advice on various aspects of living and working in your destination.
- This cultural awareness training will cover key values and attitudes, communication skills, business culture, how to overcome the culture shock and will provide comprehensive insight to your destination.
- Can be booked as a frim-based pre-departure workshop, online or offline training, webinar, online mentoring and can be combined as hybrid learning (face-to-face meeting and online sessions).
- Instructors are highly qualified native experts with many years of experience in doing business internationally.
- This course is designed as a 2-days course for expats and international assignees moving to live and work in one of the countries of the Middle East and North Africa. For our clients worldwide we provide customized webinars, online courses, 2-hour briefings, 4-hour, 8-hour, 12-hour and 16-hour training courses, as well as firm-based trainings and one-on-one coaching.
- This cross-cultural training can help you and your family to navigate the cross-cultural encounters and provide an understanding of “way of doing things” in your country in the Middle East in North Africa.
Course Details
Some managers and business people underestimate or are not aware about the challenge of adjusting to a new cultural, social, economic, and legal environment. The Global Relocation Trends Survey has shown that one of the leading causes of relocation failure is the inability to adapt to the local culture of the host country. Intercultural training is a worldwide acknowledged design to help you and your family to navigate the cross-cultural differences and to gain practical information and recommendations on the various aspects of living and working in your new destination in the Middle East and North Africa.
Who should visit this course?
This course will be of benefit if you:
- Plan to live and work in one or more Arab countries in Middle East and North Africa longer than 3 months.
- Spend periods of time in one or more Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
- Are interested to deepen your knowledge about a specific country the Middle East and North Africa.
The content of the course can be designed as
- Country Analysis
- Country Information
- Country Report
for different target groups who are interested in the above mentioned nations. In addition to these countries, we offer country trainings for more than 70 countriesacross the globe. The course is available online or offline, in different international languages! Our country experts will deliver and cover intercultural aspects for more countries worldwide. Just contact us and request your quote.
Your benefits from this course
- This course will equip you with key communication tools and skills to understand cultural differences and to respond to messages between the lines in business and social situations.
- You will increase your awareness of culture shock and learn ways how to survive it.
- You gain a comprehensive insight to your new country in the Middle East in North Africa which will help you to accelerate your adjustment and cultural integration.
This intercultural training “Living and Working in one of the countries of the Middle East and North Africa is designed to deepen your regional knowledge. We recommend this course, if you are living in one city (for example, Dubai or Cairo) but you have a cross-functional management role in different other countries in the region. Our offer includes country-specific courses for following countries:
- Saudi-Arabia
- Qatar
- Kuwait
- Oman
- Bahrain
- Egypt
- Libya
- Tunisia
- Algeria
- Morocco
- Lebanon
- Jordan
- Syria
- Iraq
- Turkey
- Israel
Content
Our cross-cultural trainings for expats “Living and Working in one of the countries of the Middle East and North Africa” are designed to meet your specific needs depending on your personal or organisational requirements and existing skills set and international experience. Since your intercultural training program is completely customized, it begins with a needs analysis followed by a phone interview to determine issues und content. A Living and Working in one of the countries of the Middle East and North Africa” course typically includes:
- Overview to geography, history, politics and economy and how they have influenced the local culture in your destination.
- Understanding cultural differences in communication styles, verbal and non-verbal communication, direct and indirect communication, polychronic and monochronic attitude to time.
- Practical information for everyday living (housing, medical, education system, childcare, socializing, building a network, behavioral norms, etiquette, tips and strategies for successful living and working in your destination in the Middle East and North Africa)
- Understanding of the roles of men and women in the Arab culture (What are the stereotypes and what are the facts?)
- Understanding of the impact of Islam in daily and business life (The role of Islam and religiosity in society and how does religious orientation influence people’s lives or your business?)
- Management and negotiation styles, Intercultural leadership, business communication, managing a meeting, achieving commitment
We help you to navigate the differences
Our many years of experience and cultural know-how will help to adjust in your country. We are proud to support you.
