Monday 7 June 2010

The Undutchables

Recently, in fact last Friday, I gave a workshop called "The Undutchables". It was a workshop for a Dutch audience introducing them to German and British business styles.

The agenda:
1. Stereotypes
2. Geert Hofstede's Dimensions of Culture
3. Patterns of Multicultural Business Behaviours
4. Group Work: Business Styles
5. Group Work: Entertainment
6. The English Class System
7. Language Barriers

The workshop lasted from 14.00 to 19.00 and there were 14 people present. The audience were Dutch management consultants; their company wants to go abroad and the target was to sensitise them for foreign ways of behaviour.