Enroll to our course and enhance your communication and leading skills in multinational teams and crew
Would you like to enhance your communication and collaboration across cultures? Do you want to ensure that the way you communicate and behave respects and honours your own culture and the one you find yourself in?
This course starts with an understanding of national cultures and focuses on teaching the participants how to translate the theory into practical tips they can use straight away within the maritime industry.
Online course
Duration: half day
Price: EUR 330 (plus VAT, if applicable)
Physical classroom at Greece's facilities
Duration: half days
Price: EUR 360 (plus VAT, if applicable)
This course is designed to provide an understanding of the dimensions of national cultures that affect how people think and behave in various situations. Emphasis will be given on how the participants can use the theory in their daily interactions with other nationals and translate that into applicable actions within the maritime industry. By the end of the course, the participants will be able to adjust their communication and behaviour across cultures without losing their own identity in a way that is respectful to themselves and the other cultures involved.
- Introduction to culture
- Layers of culture
- Hoftede’s six cultural dimensions (power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism vs collectivism, masculinity vs femininity, long vs short-term orientation, indulgence vs restraint)
- Interactive exercise for the analysis and comparison of the national cultures the participants are interested in
- Developing global dexterity as a maritime professional
- Interactive exercise
Shipping professionals who work either ashore or onboard. The ideal participant is someone who works with or leads people from various cultures, whether these are their colleagues, clients, subordinates or managers.
RINA Attendance Certificate
