Expatriate Training

Intensive preparation for your long-term stay in China

Focuses:

• Intercultural Awareness, culture and cultural standards
• Culture shock: origin and strategies on how to cope with it
• How to prepare yourself at home before you leave

• Cultural studies and current development in China
• Value systems: central issues in Chinese philosophy:
  “face”, “contacts (guanxi)”, “harmony”, “hierarchy” “group (danwei)”

• Communication: “Reading between the lines” - Practices and ways to relate effortlessly with the Chinese
• “Time” and “Space” in Asian context

• Daily life in China: Living within an expatriate community
• Training to acquire key competences to communicate smoothly in China
• Resolving misunderstandings and conflict situations
• Family life: how to integrate your partner and children

• Working in China: Management and leadership
• Negotiating in China (with case studies)
• How to deal with and motivate employees

• Introduction into the Chinesische language - Theory, practical exercises and advice on how to study Chinese efficiently

• Eating and drinking - an essential part of Chinese society

My Partner:

Certified coach with international experience