The Working with Japanese blended learning Course
This three-week, “Working effectively with Japanese” blended learning course is designed for anybody wishing to improve their business communication with Japanese people. Above all, Communication is a set of codes or patterns and being able to understand the patterns of different cultures is not simple. Therefore, in this course, we’d like to give you a head start and show you how to be more effective when working with Japanese people by learning some of the cultural codes.
Is the “working with Japanese” course for you?
Do you need a contract signed? Are your emails not being replied to as quickly as you’d like? Do you have Japanese colleagues who find it difficult to speak up in meetings? Maybe you just want to learn more about Japanese communication techniques. To sum up, learn to adapt your communication to reach your goals with your Japanese counterparts.
Course Content
The course content focuses on doing business with Japanese people and specifically cultural self-awareness. Firstly, by understanding how we communicate personally we can begin to analyse how those working with us perceive us. Secondly, we interpret what message they might be filtering. Finally we try to adapt our techniques to make our message clearer. Therefore the 3 training modules are:
Module 01:
- What is culture
- Japan: history and today
Module 02:
- Japan cultural values: Firstly, we look at four Japanese values and how they influence business. Consequentially, we give participants tools to “interpret communication patterns”.
- The virtual impact: how to communicate and build trust with Japanese people effectively using technology.
Module 03
- Write your strategy: each person analyses their own communication methods and compares them to the typical methods of Japanese people. Subsequently, they decide what they could adapt to be more effective when working with Japanese.
What does the “Working with Japanese” course include?
The course consists of the 3 Modules:
- Three 90 x minute group classes (Minimum 6, maximum 12 people)
- Classes take place only once a week over three weeks
- Access to the Culturelink Digital Learning Platform for solo work. Before each class, the participant accesses online material that can be read and consumed whenever the participant wishes and from wherever they wish. The material includes videos, quizzes, multiple choice and is very interactive.
- The platform allows all participants to communicate with one another and share their experiences and questions
- A one-month Country Navigator account where learners create their own cultural profile and compare it to other cultures, their teammates and other participants on the course.
- Between modules learners apply newly learnt tools into their business world.
The Trainer
Tania Pellegrini worked for 20 years in sports broadcasting before concentrating her career solely on intercultural training. Tania lived in Tokyo for about two years leading up to the 2002 FIFA World Cup whilst training Japanese students to work on the event and to work in multicultural teams. Since then, Tania has continued to work with Japanese people and she uses personal anecdotes in her training to complement the theory that is also taught according to empirical studies. For more information about the trainer see here.
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