Cultural training
IndiaConnected helps companies work more effectively with colleagues, partners and customers in India through cultural training.
Get in touch with our expertsAre you struggling to get up to speed with your Indian colleagues, partners and customers? Would you like to improve teamwork? Our cultural trainers will be happy to take you by the hand. We offer both individual and group training programs.
Our programs are designed to teach you skills that you can apply immediately. We’ll guide you in finding solutions to the problems you encounter on a daily basis while working with Indian relations. Examples include creating a safe working environment, recognizing and understanding the behavior of Indian colleagues, and creating open communication between all parties. We also focus on encouraging proactivity, meeting deadlines and problem solving.
We can help you with:
- Business cultural training that enhances mutual understanding and tangibly improves teamwork.
- Individual (online) cultural training that helps you work more efficiently with Indian colleagues, partners and customers.
Workshop: Collaborating effectively with India
The method of communication in India is fundamentally different from that in Western countries. Understanding each other well is the key to success, but this is often the biggest challenge for international companies in India. In our workshop and training we zoom in on this challenge and answer questions such as:
- Which communication strategy works?
- How do I get good feedback from my employees in India?
- How do I manage my team efficiently in India?
- How do I develop proactivity in my Indian team?
We train your teams at the HQ and in India, separately or together. The result of the workshop is a better mutual understanding, more efficient communication, higher job satisfaction, increased efficiency and better results.
Our training covers topics such as self-management, constructive feedback, team building, effective communication, dealing with mistakes and setbacks, strategy, planning and, of course, decision-making. This is how we help achieve effective teamwork and higher efficiency.
The group training sessions follow a set pattern:
#1 Setting goals
We start each training by establishing the goals you want to achieve as a team. This way, we ensure that the training helps solve workplace challenges, contributes to achieving business goals (KPIs) and is informative for individual participants.
#2 Creating awareness
We strengthen the global mindset of the participants. Thus, we help them to recognize, understand, and prepare for the specific challenges around working with foreign colleagues.
#3 Self-reflection
Participants engage in self-reflection to discover their own workstyle. This gives them insight into the strengths and weaknesses of their own way of working in an international context. After all, not only India is culturally different: we also have to embrace our own cultural quirks.
#4 Skills training
Our seasoned trainers teach your team a wide range of practical skills to work effectively in an international organization and specifically with multicultural teams in India. These skills help participants to increase productivity, take responsibility, create openness and transparency.
#5 Setting strategy
We then work with participants to map out their individual strategy to solve the challenges they experience in their work, prevent future problems and truly develop the global mindset needed for working with international teams.
#6 Dialogue
After the team has gone through the above mentioned steps, we bring them together to explore how they can work together more efficiently. We create a safe environment and facilitate constructive dialogue on what works and what does not. Our trainers have years of experience with India and are the bridge between the two teams.
#7 Fine-tuning
Once the areas for improvement have been identified, we facilitate alignment between the teams. We help define concrete terms and compromises to prevent problems and align expectations.
Advantages of this service:
- 73% of our clients report improvement on finishing within the deadline.
- 75% of our clients report improvement in efficiency.
- 64% of our clients report improvement in the quality of work.
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