Our cross-cultural curriculum is offered via the web.
Ten topics. Text, audio, media, discussion forums.
See below just one example. Persuasion.
Presentations are integral to the communications of any company. More importantly, presentations are the basis for decision making. Effective presentations are persuasive presentations. Germans and Americans persuade differently, however. Transatlantic organizations without common criteria for judging what is persuasive run the risk of miscalculation. Important content, understood and accepted on one side of the Atlantic, suddenly does not resonate on the other. Decision making processes lose their effectiveness. Key people feel misunderstood, possibly ignored. Political calculation slowly creeps into otherwise open and objective analysis and argumentation.
Soon my base of operations will be Bonn and Philadelphia. Spending large blocks of time in the latter will allow me to be closer to my US-based clients. And I intend to broaden my offering beyond the German-American space. Input, ideas, suggestions are coming in from my network of contacts in the U.S.
A common [...]
Under the title “German Industries Rebuke Chancellor: As Polls Slide, Merkel‘s Coalition Risks Alienating a Longtime Ally Over Taxes” the Wall Street Journal‘s Vanessa Fuhrmans (with contribution from Andrea Thomas) write today that „Germany’s ruling center-right coalition, struggling to reverse its declining approval ratings, is losing support from one of its traditional constituencies—big business.“
Seldom in [...]