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Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan Cultural Awareness Training

"The trainer was fantastic, personable, and extremely knowledgeable."

Twinings delegate

kazakh culture training courses

 

Our training course is perfect for anyone working with Kazakhs or doing business in Kazakhstan.

 

 

 

Who benefits from our courses?

We help people from all walks of life.

  • Professionals visiting Kazakstan for work
  • Businesses needing help managing Kazakh suppliers or staff
  • Project teams collaborating with Kazakh counterparts
  • Leaders and managers motivating Kazakh employees
  • Exporters pitching for prospects in Kazakhstan

 ...and many, many more.

 

  Case Study - Working With Kazakh Colleagues

Our client is a Kazakh company with an office in the UK.

It has a lot of Kazakh visitors to the office; some of them were causing tensions and issues with many of the British and European staff who mainly manned the UK office. In short, the Kazakhs were being perceived as rude.

Our job was to improve everyone's knowledge of Kazakh culture to cut out the negative interpretations of their behaviours and actions.

We designed and delivered a training course which tackled head-on some of the issues at hand by addressing certain biases held within the team.

The course was a massive success and was repeated for their Kazakhstan office however this time looking at cultural differences between themselves and Europe and the USA.

 

What's Covered in the Course?

All our courses are bespoke.

This means no two courses are ever 100% the same. We tailor the contents, topics and approach according to who are are training.

 

Topics many of our clients want to explore include:

Cultural Awareness & Kazakhstan

  • Cross-cultural (mis)perceptions
  • Attitudes to foreigners and stereotypes
  • Social values and cultural pillars

 

Communicating with Kazakhs

  • Beliefs, ethics, customs and expectations
  • Building relationships, etiquette and manners
  • Communication and sharing information

 

Business in Kazakhstan

  • Business drivers and cultural fundamentals
  • Cross-cultural analysis of potential challenges
  • Comparative analysis of business practices

 

Working in Kazakhstan

  • Relationships, trust and common goals
  • Networking, business entertainment and meetings
  • Managing conflict, influencing and decision making


These topics are indicative only - we cover what learners need.

 

How is the training delivered?

All our courses are delivered as webinars.

 

How do I get a course overview?

Simply by using the form below.

Let us know a bit about what you need and we can either send you a sample course outline or arrange a call.

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Our Training Approach

Our name - Commisceo - perfectly describes our training ethos.

Commisceo is Latin, meaning “to unite, to mix, to mingle”; it infers that through people coming together, mingling and sharing knowledge, that unity can be brought about.

Many businesses and organisations appreciate that their staff need this understanding - with the global economy more important than ever they are investing in training courses, resources and intranet content to bring about “cultural competence”, “cultural sensitivity” or “cultural awareness”.

We feel many of the cultural awareness courses on offer today are defunct; they tend to be based on old, tired, monocultural paradigms and on top of that stick to the standard training-room-style format. Very few achieve true “cultural awareness” - in fact, if anything many courses entrench people further in their own cultural definitions rather than allow them to break free of them which is exactly what is needed.

As leaders in cultural awareness training and coaching we have adopted a different approach. We emphasise self-critique, skills based cultural understanding and experiential learning.

Our focus is on creating ‘global mindedness’. We don’t want “culturally conscious” people at the end of our courses, we want “culturally unconscious” people in that culture never becomes an issue for them; they don’t even think about culture as they have the skills, insight and know-how to think beyond this and see things holistically. No matter where in the world, or who they work with, they know how to make things work.

Our Cross Cultural Trainers

We are very proud of our trainers.

We believe they are the best in the business in terms of their know-how and more importantly, how they relate to and educate others.

Where do our cross-cultural trainers come from?

Professionally all our trainers are people from industry. If we deliver a course on management in Indonesia, our trainer would have been a manager in Indonesia.

If we are designing and delivering a team-building course for a global brand, our trainer would have been a manager of a multicultural team for a global brand.

Our trainers are picked specifically for individual clients based on professional experience.

Trainers are also chosen for their training styles and charisma; we don’t do ‘stand in front of audience and talk’ training. Our style is engaging, interactive, explorative and creative. All our trainers reflect this in how they deliver. Although all are natural motivators and educators, they all keep abreast of innovations and developments in methodologies, tools and the like.

The final requisite for our trainers is to wholeheartedly share our beliefs in why and how we train people. A shared ethos ensures our clients receive outstanding consultancy pre- and post-training.