If you’re American and new to doing business with Saudis, then this is for you!
We're going to give you a quick-fire overview of some of the most common challenges faced by the two cultures when doing business together.
If you’re American and new to doing business with Saudis, then this is for you!
We're going to give you a quick-fire overview of some of the most common challenges faced by the two cultures when doing business together.
Let's explore the definition of cultural awareness.
Within the training, education and research fields you will hear many terms, sometimes used interchangeably.
The Japanese culture can be tricky to understand.
The people have particular ways of doing things, polished over hundreds of years of history, that seem peculiar to the outsider.
Could South Korea’s hierarchical culture have caused planes to crash?
If you work or do business with South Koreans, you really need to understand hierarchy.
What would you draw to illustrate the meaning of 'culture'?
This is a little exercise we commonly use in cultural awareness training courses to get people thinking about how culture works.
Do you work with the Chinese?
A common challenge many foreigners come across is how to handle the word ‘no’.
When you’re doing business abroad, it’s critical to understand some of the dos and don’ts.
We’re going to look at areas we often cover in cross-cultural training, lèse-majesté.
Foreigners working in Thailand can misunderstand the local culture in many ways.
Thais tend to be judged against values and standards that are alien to them which leads to their behaviours and actions being seen incorrectly.
Does Cultural Awareness training work?
Will investing in such training really offer any sort of ROI and help your staff?
Where did 'culture' come from? What does 'culture' do?
In order to understand cultural differences, you need to take a step back.
Culture is a complex thing.
It affects everything we do from the way we raise our kids to the way we do business.
Many assume the two Arab Gulf countries are alike.
However, Saudi Arabia and the UAE are culturally, politically and socially different in many ways.
The development of competent remote and virtual teams is now a big priority for most training departments.
Adapting to a world in which travel is restricted and social distancing is required makes the ability to conduct business virtually across cultures, countries and time zones essential.
This question is often asked in Indian intercultural training programmes.
"We don't get it! Why do they always nod? And in different ways too!?"
A question commonly raised during Middle East cross-cultural training is why the region is named this way.
Well, here's a really quick explanation.
Ramadan 2020 has arrived!
Although Muslims the world over are celebrating its arrival, the fact that it has arrived against a backdrop of COVID-19 makes it rather unique.
Want to make the best impression possible when you visit the UAE?
Then you need to learn a bit about the country, its people and how to behave!
Culture is everywhere; whether you know it or not.
It influences everything from how we get married, do business with one another and yes, deal with a pandemic.
Cross-cultural, intercultural and multicultural don’t mean the same thing.
Although these terms are often used interchangeably, they do, in fact, have very different meanings.
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