Why Doing Business in the United Kingdom? As the fourth largest economy in the world, the United Kingdom 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 United Kingdom. Doing business in the United Kingdom, 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 United Kingdom and British culture can often prove daunting for the uninitiated.
Communicaid’s Doing Business in the United Kingdom 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 United Kingdom course will provide you with the tools to maximise the competitive advantage of doing business in the United Kingdom through a mixture of in-depth background information and hands-on practical tips and business solutions.
Benefits
Communicaid’s Doing Business in the United Kingdom 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 United Kingdom
Who should attend
A Communicaid Doing Business in the United Kingdom course will be of benefit to you if you are:
- Considering doing business in the United Kingdom
- Establishing partnerships with British business counterparts
- Travelling extensively to the United Kingdom to do business
- Employing British nationals within your organisation
- Experiencing the challenges of doing business in the United Kingdom
Course content
All our Doing Business in the United Kingdom 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 United Kingdom course typically includes:
- Historical and political overview of the United Kingdom
- 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 United Kingdom
- British negotiation and presentation styles
- Challenges and solutions for doing business in the United Kingdom
Approach
Doing Business in the United Kingdom 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 United Kingdom course will be discussed during your diagnostic consultancy.
Doing Business in the United Kingdom Course Trainer
Your Doing Business in the United Kingdom 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.
CR – Cross Cultural Specialist
BA American Studies, Manchester
MSc Strategic Training and Development, Surrey
CR has over twenty years international management and intercultural training experience with corporate and non-profit clients in both the US and UK. She has worked with a number of major multi nationals across a wide range of sectors including engineering, energy, finance, pharmaceutical and petrochemical industries. Her areas of expertise include diversity training, intercultural coaching, UK and US business training and cross border communication.
After graduating, CR moved to Chicago where she lived and worked for over ten years. She spent the first four years as Training Manager with International Orientation Resources recruiting and supervising trainers in addition to delivering training herself. She then moved to Bennett Associates where her projects included Train-the –Trainer, cultural adaptability, cross cultural awareness for international management and intercultural training for HR. CR’s final position in the States was as Project Manager for the Anti-Defamation League developing materials and seminars for diversity training.
On her return to the UK in 1996, CR completed her Masters and has since worked as an intercultural and global diversity consultant delivering cultural transition training, diversity seminars and intercultural training in support of European mergers and acquisitions and international HR. CR also regularly delivers workshops and seminars for a number of professional organisations such as SIETAR and CIPD. She has delivered training for key Communicaid clients including Smith & Nephew, L’Oreal and Cadbury Schweppes.
See also Doing Business in the UK and Doing Business in Great Britain
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