Why Intercultural Training Poland?  Intercultural Training Poland develops employees’ and managers’ cultural awareness, enabling them to operate more effectively when interacting – either face-to-face or virtually - with business people and colleagues in Poland.  Differences between you and your Polish partners in the assumptions of how business interactions should unfold can lead to misunderstandings and tensions in the workplace.  These in turn will lead to unwanted obstacles, a complete breakdown in negotiations or loss of business.

Successfully doing business in Poland is heavily dependent on a high level of understanding of the intercultural variables of Polish culture and their potential effects on business interactions.  Doing business in Poland effectively also requires an ability to adapt your behaviour and attitudes to those of your Polish counterparts.  Intercultural Training Poland will provide you and your organisation with a set of intercultural skills to help you navigate business interactions with Polish nationals and eliminate any risk created by the uncertainty and possibly misunderstandings which can result from intercultural differences.  This is achieved through a close analysis of culture and its variables which highlights the differences that exist between you and your Polish counterparts.  Communicaid’s Intercultural Training Poland courses will take into account your company’s corporate culture as well as broader aspects of Polish national culture to enable you to develop concrete strategies to successfully navigate Polish business culture.

Communicaid’s Intercultural Training Poland programmes take a multidimensional approach to the intercultural differences that affect doing business in Poland.  Employees first complete a self-assessment of their own key cultural drivers, values and attitudes.  The results of this are then compared to key Polish values and working preferences such as the importance of relationship building and hierarchy.  This exercise helps any employee doing business in Poland to identify the intercultural differences between themselves and their Polish counterparts that may impact their interactions.  The result is a unique improvement in intercultural awareness leading to improved business relations with Polish counterparts and colleagues.

Intercultural Training Poland programmes are client-led training solutions designed after a rigorous diagnostic consultancy which allows Communicaid to carefully assess your company’s needs and the existing skill sets of its employees.  As a result, training provides real and concrete intercultural tools aimed at your specific context of doing business in Poland, guaranteeing maximum return on investment.

Benefits of Intercultural Training Poland

Intercultural Training Poland courses are designed and delivered by Communicaid to offer the following benefits to you and your organisation:

• Insight into and understanding of culture and its impact on intercultural business interactions
• Increased intercultural awareness and skills that can be applied immediately to unique business contexts and roles
• Tools and strategies to successfully negotiate the intercultural differences your employees and managers are likely to encounter when doing business in Poland
• Detailed understanding of Polish business culture, attitudes and working practices

Who should attend an Intercultural Training Poland course?

Communicaid’s Intercultural Training Poland programmes are bespoke solutions that meet the training needs of:

• Employees and managers who do business with Polish nationals on a daily basis – either virtually of face-to-face
• Global organisations who employ Polish nationals or who increasingly do business in Poland
• Members of virtual project teams that include Polish colleagues
• Employees of international organisations who have experienced intercultural misunderstandings or tensions when doing business in Poland

Intercultural Training Poland Course Overview

Intercultural Training Poland programmes are client-led solutions aimed at the specific intercultural training needs of employees and managers doing business in Poland.  Training takes into account the specific business context of our clients and will therefore vary in content.  An Intercultural Training Poland course typically includes:

• Overview of Polish culture: religion and history, core values and beliefs and their impact on doing business in Poland
• Self-assessment of personal cultural values and attitudes
• Polish business culture: key values and drivers including relationship building, status in the workplace
• An overview of key intercultural differences and their potential effects on business interactions in Poland
• Polish working practices and business etiquette: negotiating successfully, avoiding intercultural misunderstandings, building common expectations in business
• Bespoke strategies and intercultural tools to decipher the intercultural differences between you and your Polish counterparts
• Tailored action plan and tips to successfully anticipate potential intercultural misunderstandings when doing business in Poland

Approach

Intercultural Training Poland 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 Poland course will be discussed during your diagnostic consultancy.  Detailed below is the profile of a member of our Intercultural Training Poland team.

GA – Cultural Awareness Trainer – Poland
PhD in Sociology, Graduate School for Social Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
MA in Sociology, Lancaster University, UK

A Canadian by birth, GA has extensive experience living, studying and working in Poland from 1995 to 2006. He has worked for the International Organisation for Migrants in Warsaw and Krakow as a coordinator for language and culture training programmes, co-owned and directed a language and cultural awareness training provider in Warsaw, worked for the Central European University in Warsaw and administered the Canadian International Schools in Warsaw. His research area for his PhD was Cross-cultural management in Central and Eastern Europe and he has been providing cross-cultural training and coaching for executives for several years. He is the author of the Book: Culture Smart Poland, a cross-cultural guide to Poland as well as various journal articles.

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