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.

New Project in Derbyshire

My blog entries have become rather "limited" in the last few months, but I am on a new project now and obviously cannot give out any information about it. One thing though, it is a supply chain excellence project where the focus lies on procurement as the core process with all the other neighbouring process around which need looking at.

For a change the project is in the UK and not abroad; in fact, it is in Derbyshire where I am spending most of my time these days. Nice area, extremely nice people, and a very challenging project.

Once I have a bit more time I shall come back and write about a subject more in detail.