Why Doing Business in the UK? As the fourth largest economy in the world, the UK presents organisations with immense investment opportunities. Flexible business practices combined with a highly skilled and mobile workforce offer many of the economic ingredients necessary to successfully conduct business in the UK. Doing business in the UK, however, involves understanding the diversity and unique characteristics of the British and British business culture. An island nation, proud of its history and independence, the UK and British culture can often prove daunting for the uninitiated.
Communicaid’s Doing Business in the UK cultural awareness courses are ideal for professionals and teams who need to build more successful business relationships with British colleagues, partners and clients. A Doing Business in the UK course will provide you with the tools to maximise the competitive advantage of doing business in the UK through a mixture of in-depth background information and hands-on practical tips and business solutions.
Benefits
Communicaid’s Doing Business in the UK courses will provide you with:
- A clear understanding of the key drivers that motivate British business counterparts
- Greater awareness of British business etiquette and culture
- Practical strategies for doing business more effectively with British counterparts
- Better understanding of the potential challenges and business solutions involved in
establishing or doing business in the UK
Who should attend
A Communicaid Doing Business in the UK course will be of benefit to you if you are:
- Considering doing business in the UK
- Establishing partnerships with British business counterparts
- Travelling extensively to the UK to do business
- Employing British nationals within your organisation
- Experiencing the challenges of doing business in the UK
Course content
All our Doing Business in the UK training courses are designed to meet the specific needs of our clients depending on their particular requirements and existing skills set. A Doing Business in the UK course typically includes:
- Historical and political overview of the UK
- British culture and values including religions, beliefs and customs
- British business practices and current economic environment
- British cultural values and attitudes in the workplace: hierarchy, status, accountability
- Management and communication styles for doing business in the UK
- British negotiation and presentation styles
- Challenges and solutions for doing business in the UK
Approach
Doing Business in the UK programmes are available seven days a week, 365 days a year, either at one of our training centres in London, Paris, Frankfurt and New York or at your offices in any location worldwide. We usually recommend a one or two day course but can also offer a more flexible format to suit your schedule.
Suitably tailored materials will be used throughout your course and your trainer will provide a balance of structured input and discussion of case studies and scenarios relevant to your own particular context.
The most appropriate training format, content and approach for your Doing Business in the UK course will be discussed during your diagnostic consultancy.
Doing Business in the UK Course Trainer
Your Doing Business in the UK trainer will be assigned to you following the results of your diagnostic consultancy according to your objectives and areas of focus. Detailed below is the profile of a member of our British culture training team.
PS – Cross Cultural Specialist
BA in Business Studies, University of Frankfurt
Licensed Consultant for The International Profiler, DISC and TMC
PS has over eleven years of experience in consultancy, human resources management and intercultural training and has lived in the UK, Poland, Egypt as well as her native Germany. Her key areas of expertise include global leadership, multicultural teams, international assignments, repatriation and cross cultural management.
PS now works as an intercultural training consultant in London. Her experience in the field of international HR project management involves working in areas of recruitment, organisational development, performance management and employee relations. More recently, PS has worked on several global leadership consultancy projects focusing on leadership, diversity, cross cultural issues and workforce development.
Her executive and team coaching approach is based on several licensed tools which help to identify cultural development gaps and improve individual effectiveness when working across cultures.
PS speaks five languages: German, English, French and basic Polish and Arabic.
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