Workshop Business Culture

Use the website below. Divided into groups - learn a bit about the business cultures of our respective countries. You may focus on a few points, such as taboos, punctuality and/or dress code, but can also browse through the information in order to find interesting points that stand out to you.

Choose a chairman and a secretary in each group.

• The chairman makes sure everybody has a say and contributes.
• The secretary takes notes.
• Look for "mistakes" that you (if you were an uninformed and culturally unaware businessman) may easily make in the other countries. A simple way of doing this is to ask yourselves what you (as an Italian, German etc.) react on in the description of the business cultures of the other countries. When you go: "Now THIS will be hard for me as a Slovak, Frenchman, German etc." you have struck gold. Try to find at least one thing in each country that will be a challenge for businessmen from your country.
• The final task (and also the outcome/product of the activity) is to phrase advice (on Padlet - one column/country) to businessmen conducting business in the respective countries. In the Liechtenstein column you thus make some notes on what businessmen from Liechtenstein have to think extra carefully about when conducting business in the six other countries, and so on.
• Reassemble in room 29 to explain what you have written on Padlet . The chairman in each group explains.