Working with India:
Cross-Cultural Awareness and Business Skills

An interactive cross-cultural training seminar for business professionals and technical specialists working with India – doing business in India, outsourcing to India, or interacting with Indian counterparts on a day-to-day basis. Highly recommended for managers and professionals working with offshore teams in India.

Topics range from general background on Indian culture to applied skills and success strategies for interacting, communicating and working effectively with Indian employees, team members, business partners, vendors, outsourcing partners, and professional counterparts.

Cross-cultural awareness training is combined with exercises providing hands-on problem solving, skills development and action planning for enhanced work-related interactions.

Sample Topics

• Understanding contemporary India as a foundation for building sound working relationships
• Indian core values and social culture
• Communicating effectively with Indians
• Work-related behaviors and interaction styles
• Business etiquette and protocols
• Management and teamwork style
• Meeting style and expectations
• Negotiation, selling and persuading
• Best-practice strategies for working with Indian teams

Formats

• One-day (8 hours) face-to-face training
• Half-day (4 hours) face to face training