Why Intercultural Training France?  France is both the largest country in the European Union and the most visited country in the world, with 75 million tourists each year.  A modern and diverse country, France encompasses a wealth of landscapes and identities influenced by an amalgamation of cultural and historical differences.  As a result, French social and business culture is so unique that any organisation doing business in France must be mindful of the intercultural differences they are likely to encounter there.  Communicaid Intercultural Training France programmes are bespoke solutions designed with the specific needs of your company in mind to help you reduce intercultural differences and turn them into competitive advantages.

When doing business in France, global organisations need a set of intercultural skills that enable them to decipher the unique aspects of French business culture, and therefore eliminate the risks inherent in having false or misguided expectations as to how French business people will behave.  Communicaid’s Intercultural Training France programmes offer valuable insight into French culture and how it affects doing business in France.  One key drivers of French culture is a high aversion to risk and uncertainty, which translates into a high number of rules and norms regulating all manner of procedures.  As a result, negotiations can take time which can be perceived as a sign of incompetence or mistrust by anyone who does not have the right level of intercultural understanding for doing business in France.

Communicaid’s Intercultural Training France programmes equip you and your company with a set of intercultural skills that fit your unique business needs thanks to our uniquely blended approach that includes poignant case studies delivered by trainers with hands-on experience in relevant sectors.  Designed in close collaboration with you, Communicaid carries out a diagnostic consultancy to gain an understanding of your existing skill set and specific objectives. This ensures Intercultural Training France programmes are delivered with maximum impact and effectiveness, guaranteeing a high return on investment and real and measurable effects on your business operations in France.

Benefits

Communicaid’s Intercultural Training France programmes provide you and your organisation with:

• A practical set of intercultural skills specifically tailored for your role and your company’s situation in the French business context in which it operates
• The ability and know-how to plan for potential intercultural challenges faced when doing business in France
• Improved skills to critically analyse the key cultural variables that impact doing business in France
• Tailored solutions and strategies to reduce intercultural misunderstandings, enabling positive working relationships with French colleagues and partners

Who should attend?

Communicaid’s Intercultural Training France course is aimed at:

• International companies that have business interests in France
• Staff and employees working closely or directly with French nationals
• Members of multinational or virtual teams that include French nationals
• Employees working in collaboration with French businesses
• Business people who travel to France on a regular basis for business

Intercultural Training France Course overview

Communicaid’s Intercultural Training France programmes are a bespoke solution that meets our clients’ unique needs, situations and sectors.  Programmes can vary considerably in content depending on your unique requirements, however Intercultural Training France programmes would typically provide:

• A detailed overview of key cultural values and attitudes and how they impact business
• Increased awareness of your own cultural values and behaviours to help you understand how you are perceived when doing business in France
• A clear understanding of France’s social and historical and the impact this has on French business culture and working practices
• A set of skills and concrete tools to help you decipher cultural differences between you and your French counterparts, enabling you to plan your business strategy in advance
• French working practices and business etiquette: status, rules and regulations, formality, greetings and meetings
• Communicating effectively with the French: body language, communication styles and using English internationally
• Tips and strategies for doing business in France more effectively

Approach

Intercultural Training France programmes are available seven days a week, 365 days a year, either at one of our training centres in London, Brussels, 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 Intercultural Training France course will be discussed during your diagnostic consultancy.  Detailed below is the profile of a member of our Intercultural Training France team.

AGLT – Cultural Awareness Trainer – France

BA in French, University of Hertfordshire
Advanced Diploma in Educational Management, University of Hertfordshire
RSA CELTA Teaching English as a Foreign Language, International House

Throughout her teaching career in the UK and France AGLT has had broad management experience including managing budgets, performance reviewing, policy planning and staff training and development.  She is also a fluent French speaker.

AGLT taught French in the UK state system throughout the 1980s and ‘90s including two years as head of French and nine years as Head of Modern Languages.  In 2000 she relocated to Paris and joined Inlingua as Senior Business English trainer.  AGLT specialised in high level business language training including Negotiations, Presentations, Meetings and Business Correspondence and also developed a keen interest in Cultural Awareness Training.  She was later promoted to ‘Responsable Pedagogique’ with responsibility for nineteen members of staff.

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