Your Polish colleagues show up to a meeting on Friday at 2:00 PM and your colleagues from the Czech Republic and Slovakia seem absent in spirit – and often in body, too?
During the meeting you don’t understand why your colleagues suddenly went quiet or are nodding along, but you have a feeling that nothing will happen by the agreed deadline? You travelled to Warsaw, Prague and Bratislava, and you seem overdressed or underdressed on each occasion?
Your Czech colleagues find the Polish ones pushy? The Polish HR manager is trying to solve a long-standing dispute between her male and female colleagues running the Slovak business, and seems lost despite having tried everything? The Polish part of the room started laughing when you tried to impress them by using a business phrase you’d learnt in Czech and Slovak?
Who is this training for?
- People who will be collaborating or are already collaborating with Poles, Czechs or Slovaks
- People who are considering whether their business should open or expand across Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia
- People who are planning to move to Poland, the Czech Republic or Slovakia and need to know a little more about the business side of things
- People who would like to gain a better insight into business culture in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia after the course ‘Neighbours, not Twins – Introduction into Poland, Czech Republic, and Slovakia’
What will you gain?
- An understanding of how business is conducted across the region, and why being successful in one country doesn’t necessarily translate into success across the whole region
- Practical tips on the norms governing business situations
- Information on the key aspects of building relationships with all three cultures
- Words and phrases that are false friends and may at best create confusion, at worst – cause offence
- A look at the interpretation of sexism, multiculturalism and homosexuality in the context of working in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Training programme:
- Does ‘yes’ always mean ‘yes’? – communication styles
- Religiosity, tradition, gender equality
- Distance and hierarchy in building business relationships
- Building personal relationships, decision-making and humour
- Business expansions
- Are heels and a suit worth packing? – dress code in business
- But I’m not hungry at 11:00 AM – food culture
- Business – what to do and what to avoid
Training details:
- Dates: Autumn 2026, details available soon
- Time: Details available soon
- Duration: 4 hours
- Format: Virtual workshop (online)
- Language of the workshop: English
- Price: details available soon
- Certificate: All participants receive an official certificate of completion
- Bonus: Participants receive access to the ETTA knowledge base in the form of webinar recordings
- Bring a friend and you will both receive a 10% discount
Why join?
In Central Europe, geographic proximity does not mean cultural uniformity—especially in the boardroom. Joining this training will give you a competitive edge by decoding the radically different communication styles, attitudes toward hierarchy, and gender dynamics across all three countries.
You will learn how to navigate the “Friday afternoon” spirit, interpret silence in meetings, and master the local dress codes that vary from capital to capital. Whether you are expanding your business or managing a multicultural team, this session provides the practical tools to turn regional diversity into a strategic advantage.
Can’t join on the proposed dates or not sure yet?
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- Secure your chance to participate without missing out.