Who is this training for?
For managers, team members, and professionals from any country cooperating with colleagues, clients, bosses, and other stakeholders from Poland.
Consult this training
What you will learn in the virtual workshop:
- what values rule your business partner’s world and how to adequately interpret their behavior,
- where do behaviors you don’t understand come from and how to deal with them,
- how the knowledge of cultural dimensions can result in more effective communication and cooperation,
- how to establish and execute rules to improve the implementation of common international projects.
Advantages of the virtual training
- guarantee of interactive participation in training with the use of online engaging tools
- half-day workshops allow flexible organization of the workday
- relationships building with remote colleagues through joint participation in training
- participation in the workshop from anywhere, all you need is access to a computer
Virtual workshop program
Module I
Getting to know Polish Culture
- Functioning in a multicultural environment
- What are my experiences in contact with the Polish nation?
- The concept of culture as an “iceberg”
- What is culture shock and how to manage it
- General characteristics of Poland
- Comparison of key cultural differences between my country and Poland on culture dimensions
- How to build trust in private and professional life
- Expressivity, hierarchy, approach to time, relationships vs. tasks
Module II
Cooperation and communication with the Poles
- What and how is communicated in Poland?
- What is my communication style and how can I adapt
- Potentially difficult areas in cooperation with the Poles
- How are conflicts resolved in Poland?
- How to establish relationships and friendships
- Everyday life: shopping, transport, formalities
- Rules of society, norms, and values
- Personal action plan for relocation period
Project flow
Diagnosis and prework
- in-take interview with the project sponsor
- diagnosis of participants’ needs (online questionnaire and calls)
- prework for participants (material to watch, read or listen to)
Virtual workshops
- training divided into 2 workshops, 3,5 hours each
- interactive working methods: discussions, chat, virtual board, questionnaires, videos, case studies, breakout rooms, external tools (Mentimeter, Miro, Funretro)
- participants: up to 12 people
Summary and follow up
- training materials for participants
- access to the ETTA knowledge base
- follow up call with the project sponsor