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FUJII Intercultural organizes and coordinates training seminars for companies in which interaction between Japan and France is important, especially at operational and senior management level.

These intercultural trainings, carefully adapted to each particular situation, enables French and Japanese managers to understand and apply different mechanisms for an effective communication, and facilitate the development  of personal and collective achievement. The intercultural seminar will help  your team by understanding and going beyond intercultural differences.

An evaluation report generally follows these training sessions in order to elaborate a teambuilding´s program.

French-Japanese Intercultural Training Program

 

For whom ?
  • Board of Directors or Executive Committee members; Senior Managers of Euro-Japanese companies
  • Managers and members of multicultural teams
  • Multicultural operational teams on Industrial Production sites
Families
living overseas
Future
Expatriates
Seminar Multicultural
teams
Expatriate
Families
Managers
Companies comprised
of a multicultural personnel
Why ?

Objective = Develop and enhance your multicultural team´s Performance.

Unite French and Japanese collaborators in training seminars on the following themes:

1 Elaborate Teambuilding
2 Understand and apply mecanisms for an effective communication
3 Facilitate the development of personal and collective achievement
4 Create and keep a team´s dynamic despite intercultural differences
5 Create a synergy for multicultural working teams

When ?

Expatriation and Integration Process

« Professional life » « Family life »
Settlement period
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« Relocation »
Facing expectations
Critical phase
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Living overseas
Facing reality
Adaptation phase
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Integration for partners
Work in a multicultural team   Adaptation to the country

The Intercultural training seminar is appropriate at any moment.

How ?
Be aware of cultural differences
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Knowledge on different
types of management
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Develop a new competency
centered on enhancing a multicultural team´s performance
Develop the keys for a better communication

French Japanese Intercultural Training Program

Prepare for Expatriation

Prepare for Expatriation and/or working in France (Japan)

  • Information on the country of destination and its culture
    • Useful advices for business trips in France (Japan)
  • Understand and prepare for the expatriation process
  • Learn different types of working organization
  • Integrate quickly to the new professional environment

To understand the culture of the other one

We propose Intercultural Training Seminars with the following objectives:

  • Awareness on French-Japanese cultural differences
  • A better mutual understanding between members of a multicultural team

 

For French Participants For Japanese Participants
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Intercultural Training
on Japanese Corporate Culture
 
Intercultural Training on French Corporate Culture

Joint Session with French and Japanese colleagues for Multicultural Teams Performance

 

In order to identify the company´s needs and expectations, FUJII Intercultural proposes to make a diagnostic of current management characteristics.

Following this analysis, FUJII Intercultural establishes a training program together with the company´s management in order to accompany intercultural teams.

Then, in order to enhance teambuilding´s spirit, we offer a joint session for management training with both non-Japanese and Japanese entities. Both parties are considered as having already participated in the intercultural training to understand the partner country´s culture.

Working groups are organized to reflect on a chosen subject and all programs are adapted to each company´s situation. (A thorough preparation with the company before the sessions is essential)

During seminars, an active participation of trainees is stimulated by role plays, sketches and presentation of each entity´s work on the chosen theme or study.

For Multicultural Teams´ Performance

Exemples of themes worked on during step 3 of the training

  • Effective Communication
  • Team building
  • Elaborate a Multicultural teams´ vision
  • Construct the company´s managerial footprint
  • Accompany Corporate strategies
  • Define Work Process flows

A post training executive summary can be delivered
to Management follow upon request.

With the management´s approval, we can elaborate collective action plans with the participants in order to check and put into practice learnings from the intercultural training.

Support the expatriate family´s integration

FUJII Intercultural proposes Intercultural Training Programs to help expatriate family members smoothly integrate the French/Japanese way of life

Program upon request : Please contact us

Seminar Program for French Participants

1 Presentation of a typical Japanese managerial system

Japanese Management : Organisation and work life in a Japanese Company

1. Presentation of a typical Japanese managerial system

> Japanese employee´s life : how do they become « corporate warriors » ?
Lifetime employement, Seniority-based remuneration system, Labor unions Recruitment and training, Income and career progression, Retirement

2. Reforms undergoing for the personnel system in the Japanese Corporate

> Organizational chart and hierarchy, Job descriptions and responsibilities
> Traditional Corporate Culture and Performance-based pay system

3. The Company in Japanese society

Brief explanation of the Japanese mentality
> Working time and Japanese sense of professionalism
> The importance of work for the Japanese people

2 Socio-cultural characteristics of the Japanese society

1. Structure and mentality

> Special features (explanation from a historical point of view)
The Japanese sense of community, A society of etiquette Hierarchical relationships, An interdependant structure

2. Characteristics of the Japanese culture

> « Shame consciousness », Sense of obligation

> Confucianism, Being (real intention) and Seeming (principe)

3. Distinctive features of the Japanese society

> Geographic features, History, Japanese traditional culture : A society based on trust, Collectivism, Religion

> The Japanese Family: couple, education, women´s working conditions

3 Communication and behaviour

1. Misunderstanding and conflicts : where do they come from ?

(Differences of cultural veiwpoints : How to resolve issues ?)

> Ambiguities of the Japanese language

> Major differences between Japanese and Europeans (Cultural diversity) Japanese gestures (Body languages)

2. Misunderstanding in the workplace / examples (How to avoid them ?)

> Different expectations with regards to Work
> Areas of competencies

3. Work organisation

> A successful meeting with Japanese colleagues

> European and Japanese Management comparisons

  • Decision making process
  • Explanation of the concept of « Consensus » and « Nemawashi »
  • Different « Retro-planning » processes
  • Different methods of internal communication
  • Professional motivation : What is behind « KAIZEN »

4. Practical techniques to improve communication with Japanese colleagues

> What to do/say & not do /say with Japanese colleagues ?

> Verbal and non verbal communication, Interlocutor´s reactions

4 Creating a synergy for multicultural working teams

1. Workshop on stereotypes and prejudices

       “The French” seen by ” the Japanese”

        Analysis of typical prejudices towards Japanese colleagues
        Strengths and weaknesses of Japanese people
        Japanese expectations when working in a multicultural team

2. Is a mixt Euro-Japanese management possible ?

  Finding mutual comprehension
  Enhancing greater understanding of Japanese partners
          In professional and /or personal relationships

Seminar Program for Japanese Participants

 

1 Presentation of a typical french managerial system

French Management : Organisation and work life in a French Company

1. Presentation of a typical French managerial system

> Labour legislation (French distinctive features)
   CE (Comité d´entreprise), Participation,
   Convention collective
   Collective Convention, Union´s organisations

2. French and Japanese Management comparisons

> French Management´s principles
   Decision making process
   Hierarchy, Social codes

> Human ressources management
   Education system : recruitment and carreer plan
   Payment : « cadres » and « non-cadres »
   Working time, Retirement

3. Working with the French

2 Socio-cultural characteristics of the French society

1. Structure and mentality

> Special features ( explanation from a historical point of view)
Importance of History
Structure of the society
France as a Centralised State
Foreigners in France

2 Characteristics of the French culture and mentality

> Distinctive features of the French society :
Family, History, Religion, Education

3 Communication and behaviour

1. Misunderstanding and conflicts : where do they come from ?
( Differences of cultural veiwpoints : How to resolve issues ?)

> Major differences between Japanese and Europeans (Cultural diversity)

2. Misunderstanding in the workplace / examples (How to avoid them ?)

> Verbal and non verbal communication, Interlocutor´s reactions

3. Practical techniques to improve communication with French colleagues

> What to do/say & not do /say with French colleagues ?

4 Team Communication as a manager

1. Management in foreign countries

2. How to communicate with a team of different culture ?

3. Communication for a better understanding between partners

5 Questions on adaptation to French daily life

1. Cultural shock : origins and symptoms

2. Adaptation to French life

3. How to overcome stress ? : Adaptation cycles

4. French annual calendar
> School calendar
> Main social and family events
> Current affairs

Seminar Program for Expatriate Families (Europe and/or Japan) 

1 Socio-cultural characteristics of the French (Japanese) society

1. Structure and mentality

> Particularities ( explanation from historical point of view)
> Major differences between Japanese and Europeans (Cultural diversity)

2. Characteristics of the French(Japanese) culture and mentality

> Distinctive features of the French(Japanese)society :
> Family, History, Religion, Education

Behaviour
determining factors

2 Adapting to and Integrating a different culture

1. Cultural shock : origins and symptoms

2. Adaptation to French(Japanese) life

3. How to handle stress ? : Adaptation cycles

4. Practical solutions to overcome stress

3 Communication and behaviour

How to communicate with the French (Japanese) ?

 

1. Misunderstanding and conflicts : where do they come from ?
( Differences of cultural veiwpoints : How to resolve issues ?)

> Major differences between Japanese and Europeans (Cultural diversity)

2. Practical techniques to improve communication with Foreigners

> How to avoid misunderstanding and conflicts ?
> Verbal and non verbal communication
> Interlocutor´s reactions

4 Questions on the French (Japanese) daily life

1. School life for the children and Educational system

2. How to deal with the French (Japanese)Administration

3. Annual calendar : main social and family events

4. Leisure for week-ends and holidays

5. How to enjoy the country?

6. Useful informations

Euro-Japan Intercultural Management Seminar

Program Examples for Japanese Entities

We can establish your own bespoke program upon request in order to well meet your needs. Please contact us for further details.

1 Learn your host and European partners´ business customs

1. Characteristics of different countries

> Cultural frameworks
> Backgrounds for Work Related Values
> Understand why people act the way they do
> Recognition and acceptance of other ways of life

2. Awareness of the perceptive objectivity

> « The Japanese » seen by Europeans
> Stereotypes and prejudices
> Case Studies presented by seminar´s participants

2 Understand different types of management and work organization

1. Study various management styles across EU countries

2. Cultural differences and consequences at work

> Socio-cultural characteristics of different working structures and hierarchy chart

3 Communication and behaviour / How to communicate with Europeans partners?

1. Misunderstandings and conflicts : where do they come from ?
( Differences of cultural veiwpoints : How to resolve issues ?)

> Major differences between Japanese and Europeans (Cultural diversity)
> What are the barriers to Intercultural Communications?

2. How to reduce the probability of misunderstandings ?

> Verbal and non verbal communication
> Interlocutor´s reactions

3. Practical techniques to improve communication with European colleagues

> What to do/say & not do /say with European colleagues ?
> How to improve English as a multiculturel team´s leader?

4. Principles for an effective communication to create confidence.

4 Managing Multi-Cultural Teams

1. Management in foreign countries

> What is expected from a manager of multicultural teams?
> What does « Efficiency » mean in intercultural work?

2. Motivate multicultural teams members

3. Build up good business relationships to create global synergies
and reach some degree of cross-cultural comprehension