At Berlitz France, we are ready to assist your employees as they prepare for their international assignments with our cross-cultural training for expatriates, which draws on country specialists from our global network of instructors. Our training is based on our proven training methods, the Cultural Navigator (our intercultural learning platform), and our intercultural online analysis tool for exploring personal cultural profiles (the Cultural Orientations Indicator, or COI). Berlitz offers you a customized blended-learning package that helps ensure that the relocation will be a success for both your company and your employees.
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About | In our seminars, we help your employees take the first steps toward intercultural competence by learning how to handle the local red tape and make new friends, as well as teaching them the most important aspects of doing business in their new region: How do you lead in the new culture? How do teams work there? How do you communicate effectively with stakeholders from different cultures in presentations and meetings? During training, we explore and answer these questions and more. | Our repatriation coaching helps your employees manage their expectations and goals. Our experienced coaches work with them to explore possible challenges, examine expectations and objectives, and draft a concrete action plan for the period following their return – so the international assignment is also a success after repatriation. |
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A training based on an exclusive model
The COI (cultural orientation indicator) profile is an integral part of every cross-cultural training for expatriates and we strongly recommend that you generate your profile before undertaking the expatriate training. This will enable us to assess your cultural preferences and comfort zones to build you a highly customized program. This program is focused on reducing gaps that may exist between your habitual way of functioning in terms of behavior and communication style and those you may encounter in your new host country environment.
The six levels of culture
All Berlitz cultural training programs address the six levels of culture that impact people’s work-style preferences:
National/Societal
Level 1
What many people think of as the only type of culture. National culture is the result of a country’s social, political, and economic history.
Our cross-cultural training for expatriates helps participants to:
Understand their way of functioning in the workplace and become more open to the advantages of different approaches to the business environment.
Acquire key information for decoding and deciphering unfamiliar behavior and communication patterns.
Get accustomed to a new professional and home environment with their family.
Acquire and apply four fundamental intercultural skills (due diligence, styles switching, dialogue, and mentoring).
Improve their capacity to better communicate, negotiate, and collaborate on the international plane.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The business workshops are available in English, French, and other languages on demand.
At Berlitz France, we offer international mobility seminars:
- At one of our language centers in France:
- In other locations and cities where we don’t have a physical language center.
- On the company's premises.
- Online for more flexibility.