Intercultural training Hong Kong: 200 experts from
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In-house Training Hong Kong

Seminar content: Intercultural training Hong Kong

The following suggested key topics provide an overview of possible training content. The contents are mutually agreed upon and tailored to the individual needs of your company and participants.

Open training Hong Kong

An open training is open to all interested parties. People from various companies, institutions or private individuals can participate.

Training locations:
Hanover / Munich / Stuttgart / Frankfurt / Berlin / Hamburg / Düsseldorf / Cologne / Vienna / Zurich AND ONLINE

Dates:

Investment:
3,490.- Euro plus VAT per participant.
From 2 participants from the same company: 2,490 euros plus VAT / participant.

In order to best accommodate our clients and offer high added value, we conduct open intercultural seminars Hong Kong in selected cases even with one participant.

Specific trainings Hong Kong

Global Cultures

Academy for Intercultural Management

+49 6195 969 34 06
Frankfurt
+49 800 181 51 15
Munich
+49 800 181 51 15
Stuttgart
+49 800 181 51 15
Hamburg
+49 800 181 51 15
Düsseldorf
+49 800 181 51 15
Cologne
+43 1 229 74 06
Vienna
+41 43 508 03 71
Zurich
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Practical tips for efficient intercultural collaboration

Intercultural training Hong Kong

Our experts for intercultural training in Hong Kong come from the private sector and are therefore very familiar with the business requirements. They also come directly from Hong Kong or have several years of consulting and professional experience in the country. This means that our clients can benefit from the latest experience.

Why us: Experts from the business world

  • They come from Hong Kong or have lived and worked in Hong Kong for a long time – they know the specifics of Hong Kong from childhood or have experienced them first-hand
  • You have several years of management experience or have held other senior positions in Hong Kong
  • Thanks to their high level of methodological expertise, they ensure a fast and efficient transfer of know-how for the participants of our seminars
  • Certification as intercultural trainers from renowned international institutes
  • Training and certification as a business coach
  • Training and experience as systemic organizational developers
  • This is how we ensure the quality standards that not only we have for ourselves, but also our customers have for us.
  • The professional qualifications of our experts ensure that our seminars are structured in a targeted and professional manner in order to impart intercultural competence quickly and efficiently

Don’t leave your success to chance: Hong Kong intercultural training

Is Hong Kong already the People’s Republic of China? Or is it still the anglicized version of China? We keep hearing about protests for more democracy from the city at the mouth of the Pearl River. But beyond that, Hong Kong has remained a hub for international trade and thus an economic hotspot in East Asia. However, the city is not just China. The inhabitants of Hong Kong have a different background and differ in their attitudes and mentality from their compatriots in the People’s Republic. It is precisely these subtle differences that are often decisive for success and justify special intercultural training that takes them into account and addresses them separately.

Success in the “other” part of China: Hong Kong intercultural training

Through intercultural training in Hong Kong, you will acquire the skills that are crucial to your business success in the country – projects will be implemented more efficiently, collaborations will be put on the road to success and negotiations will be concluded with better results.

Global Cultures – the academy for practical intercultural seminars

Global Cultures – Academy for Intercultural Management offers a wide range of training courses on Hong Kong. The subject areas include both general topics, such as general Hong Kong training, as well as specific seminars for troubleshooting, negotiating, trade fairs or projects. You can choose the best alternative for you between in-house training or open training courses, e.g. in Munich, Hamburg or Frankfurt:

  • General intercultural seminar Hong Kong
  • Intercultural seminar for international negotiations with Hong Kong
  • Intercultural Management Seminar for International Leadership
  • Intercultural seminar Hong Kong with a focus on marketing
  • Hong Kong intercultural seminar for secondments
  • Intercultural seminar Hong Kong for trade fairs
  • Intercultural seminar Hong Kong for children
  • Intercultural seminar Hong Kong for project management

Our intercultural seminars and training courses are specially tailored to the requirements of international companies and corporations. The focus is on the benefits for everyday business life.

Experience abroad and activity in the private sector – the basis of our experts

In addition to their methodological expertise, the experts at Global Cultures all have several years of experience in business life in Hong Kong. Our clients therefore benefit from their first-hand practical experience in business and Hong Kong culture.

A good solution for many countries – our intercultural training is practical for 112 countries.

Global Cultures – Academy for Intercultural Management offers you a broad spectrum of: intercultural training and intercultural coaching — from general preparation training for short-term projects abroad to exclusive seminars and industry-specific intercultural troubleshooting. Intercultural training from Global Cultures is specially tailored to the requirements of internationally active companies and corporations. We place particular emphasis on the benefits for everyday business. Your employees learn how to deal with the other culture and can thus better respond to intercultural peculiarities.

Global Cultures

Academy for Intercultural Management

+49 6195 969 34 06
Frankfurt
+49 800 181 51 15
Munich
+49 800 181 51 15
Stuttgart
+49 800 181 51 15
Hamburg
+49 800 181 51 15
Düsseldorf
+49 800 181 51 15
Cologne
+43 1 229 74 06
Vienna
+41 43 508 03 71
Zurich
Hochstraße 1
D-65779 Kelkheim

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1. Why do 70% of international cooperations fail due to intercultural problems?
  • Enormous losses and damage to image due to inadequate intercultural preparation - examples of failed projects and joint ventures in Hong Kong
  • Typical mistakes that can be avoided: analysis and lessons learned
  • How do you manage to be among the best: tactics and strategy
2 Hong Kong - Fiction and truth

What influence does the Chinese mentality have on intercultural cooperation?

  • How has the rice cultivation culture influenced the Chinese orientation towards harmony and the hierarchies of the Chinese? What consequences should be considered in today's business life?
  • Early bureaucratization of the Chinese empire: parallels to modern Hong Kong. As a foreigner, what should you bear in mind in order to do business productively in Hong Kong?
  • How has Confucianism influenced Chinese thinking: Which factors have influenced today's Chinese behavior in business life?
  • How does language influence the Chinese thought structure? Differences: Chinese vs. Western European attitude
3. culture and business: Hong Kong - Germany - Western European target countries
  • Status and hierarchy: Effective techniques to improve cooperation with Chinese people and achieve good results.
  • Individualism vs. group harmony: important aspects of cooperation with Hong Kong
  • Emotionality vs. neutrality: How much emotion can you show in a business context in order to be successful when working with Hong Kong?
  • Punctuality vs. time flexibility: How do you benefit from the professional connection of different attitudes to time management?
  • Direct vs. indirect communication: How do you quickly read between the lines?
  • Performance and relationships: How do you combine both? What dangers does understatement hide?
4. Successful cooperation – Practical suggestions

1. Professional communication

Verbal communication

  • How do you learn to formulate messages and requirements indirectly but clearly without Chinese partners losing face and you losing business?
  • Proven procedures: Inductive and deductive information perception
  • What frictional losses arise from constructive criticism according to the Western European model: solution strategies for Hong Kong.
  • How do you learn to read quickly between the lines: What is not said is often more important than what is said.
  • 4 forms of “yes”: What tools are there to safely decipher whether “yes” actually means “no”?

Non-verbal communication

  • Body language: How do you correctly identify signals?
  • Eye contact: How can you find out whether the business partner is lying or simply showing respect?
  • Facial expressions and gestures: How can you quickly and accurately recognize what people from Hong Kong mean?
  • Tone of voice: The tone makes the music – How do you understand what is going on without mastering the Chinese language well? Concrete tips

2. Successful negotiation

  • Negotiation preparation: What should you know about negotiating partners? Can you trust formal sources of information?
  • Negotiation types: Power, knowledge and relationships – what should you consider?
  • Excessive demands: how should you deal with them in order to still make a good deal?
  • Concessions under time pressure: How do you avoid typical traps?
  • How to achieve a "win-win" in Hong Kong

3. Business meetings and discussions

  • Preparation: Which factors are important to ensure that meetings and discussions are carried out efficiently?
  • Time management: According to which special patterns do meetings and discussions take place?
  • Agenda: How do you ensure that the agenda is known to all participants?
  • Process: Which Chinese special features should you consider?
  • Follow-up: how do you ensure that the results are actually implemented?

4. Decision-making

  • At what level are decisions made? – Influence of corporate culture
  • How do you efficiently involve employees from Hong Kong in the decision-making process?
  • How can you positively influence the assumption of responsibility?

5. Employee management and motivation

  • The role of the supervisor: Status and social responsibility
  • Father or friend – Pros and Cons
  • Which motivational factors are the strongest?
  • Joint events after work: how can you motivate positively with little money?
  • How do you keep the best employees in the company?

6. Conflict resolution

  • Resolve or avoid conflicts – opportunities and risks
  • What dangers arise if you address problems directly?
  • Constructive conflict resolution: does it work in Hong Kong?
  • How did you successfully resolve conflicts through the professional use of indirect style?

7. Efficient work with government authorities

  • Power and importance of government authorities: what should you consider before the initial contact?
  • How do you make Chinese officials allies?
  • Possible consequences if foreigners do not adhere to the “rules of the game.”

8. HR Aspects and Personnel Development

  • What do Chinese colleagues and partners understand by HR? How does it differ in principle from the Western concept?
  • Efficiency of Chinese employees: What should you consider when selecting, managing and promoting staff?
  • Expat or Local: Which way is the right one in which situations?
  • Tasks of an HR department: processes, responsibilities, special features. Where are the biggest differences to Germany and Western European countries?
  • Personnel development
  • Further education: Chinese special features
  • Localization of Western concepts – what should you consider in order to avoid typical mistakes?

9. Teamwork

  • How do you form and motivate well-functioning teams?
  • Cross-Functional Teams – Communication as the biggest challenge: How should you proceed?

10. Communication with company headquarters

  • How do you create understanding in company headquarters for Chinese challenges?
  • How do you explain that the "rules of the game" are different in Hong Kong?
  • How can you turn Hong Kong expertise into a success factor for your own career?
5. Anyone who is very familiar with business etiquette will be respected by Chinese people
  • How do you make a good first impression in Hong Kong - what should you bear in mind to avoid being seen as arrogant?
  • Clothes make people: How do Chinese people judge a foreign business partner based on their clothing?
  • Greeting: What should you pay attention to in order to show respect and save face?
  • Business cards – what belongs there, what makes you ridiculous?
  • Men and women – handshake or hand kiss – when is what appropriate?
  • Gifts as an important part of initiating business
  • On what occasions do you give which gifts?
  • How do you decline expensive and exclusive gifts without endangering the business relationship?
  • Chinese people do BUSINESS at BUSINESS dinners: Roles of the guest and host
  • How do you use business dinners to achieve success in difficult and problematic conversations?
  • To drink or not to drink: What should you consider at a business dinner?
  • Dancing, singing, karaoke: do you have to participate?
6. Corporate cultures and their influence on successful intercultural cooperation
  • 4 variants of corporate cultures
    • "Family" - power orientation: What essential aspects of this corporate culture are important to you in Hong Kong business?
    • 'Eiffel Tower' – Role orientation: What opportunities and risks does this category hide?
    • "Guided missile" - project orientation: In which contexts is this variant expedient for your Hong Kong business?
    • "Incubator" realization: Which facets of this category are particularly essential for Hong Kong?
  • Which combination of the 4 options is the most efficient for your company in Hong Kong?
  • Which factors and risks regarding corporate culture should be considered?
7. Daily aspects - opportunities and challenges
  • Accommodation: What should you pay attention to when looking for an apartment?
  • Security:
    • Security specifics in Hong Kong
    • Is it okay to go out in the evening as a man or as a woman?
    • Which areas should you avoid?
    • Important contacts to responsible authorities.
  • Chinese Medical Care:
    • Should you go to Chinese or foreign doctors?
    • What do you do in a medical emergency?
    • In which pharmacies can you buy medication?
    • What measures should you take before traveling to China?
  • Schools and kindergartens:
    • Which schools and kindergartens are there?
    • What is the Chinese attitude towards child rearing and education?
    • What are the expectations of teachers and parents?
  • Food and drink:
    • Which foods can you buy without hesitation, which should you best avoid?
    • Which types of drinking water are you allowed to buy? What should you pay attention to when buying?
    • Eating in restaurants and canteens: Chinese hygiene and quality
  • Leisure:
    • What are the sights worth seeing in the target regions?
    • What is the best way to get there? What should be considered in winter and summer?
    • Safety aspects and formal regulations when traveling in China
    • What sports facilities are there?
8. Long-term success
  • 6 phases of developing intercultural competence
  • How do you adapt quickly and deliver good results from day one?
  • What difficulties will the family struggle with – how can you alleviate them? Concrete assistance
  • What qualities are crucial for adapting quickly to the working environment in Hong Kong?
  • Culture shock: how do you prepare?
  • How long does the slightly depressive mood last and how do you deal with it?
  • How do partners and especially children deal with culture shock most efficiently?
  • Back home – Reintegration
  • Why do a third of seconded employees terminate their employment contracts before returning to their home country?
  • How do you prepare professionally for the return?
  • Which expectation regarding the next professional step is most productive?
  • Development of an individual action plan for each participant

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  • January 23-24, 2025
  • January 27-28, 2025
  • February 17-18, 2025
  • February 24-25, 2025
  • March 10-11, 2025
  • March 17-18, 2025
  • April 7-8, 2025
  • April 14-15, 2025
  • May 8-9, 2025
  • May 19-20, 2025
  • June 2-3, 2025
  • June 26-27, 2025
  • July 14-15, 2025
  • July 28-29, 2025
  • August 4-5, 2025
  • August 25-26, 2025
  • September 8-9, 2025
  • September 29-30, 2025
  • October 13-14, 2025
  • October 27-28, 2025
  • November 3-4, 2025
  • November 24-25, 2025
  • December 1-2, 2025
  • December 8-9, 2025

Sollten Sie an den genannten Terminen bereits anderweitige Verpflichtungen haben, kontaktieren Sie uns. Aufgrund der Nachfragesituation für interkulturelle Trainings Hong Kong ergeben sich kurzfristig in vielen Fällen alternative Termine.

Um unseren Kunden bestmöglich entgegen zu kommen und einen hohen Mehrwert zu bieten, führen wir offene interkulturelle Seminare Hong Kong in ausgewählten Fällen auch bereits mit einem Teilnehmer durch.

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1. Why do 70% of international cooperations fail due to intercultural problems?
  • Enormous losses and damage to image due to inadequate intercultural preparation - examples of failed projects and joint ventures in Hong Kong
  • Typical mistakes that can be avoided: analysis and lessons learned
  • How do you manage to be among the best: tactics and strategy
2 Hong Kong - Fiction and truth

What influence does the Chinese mentality have on intercultural cooperation?

  • How has the rice cultivation culture influenced the Chinese orientation towards harmony and the hierarchies of the Chinese? What consequences should be considered in today's business life?
  • Early bureaucratization of the Chinese empire: parallels to modern Hong Kong. As a foreigner, what should you bear in mind in order to do business productively in Hong Kong?
  • How has Confucianism influenced Chinese thinking: Which factors have influenced today's Chinese behavior in business life?
  • How does language influence the Chinese thought structure? Differences: Chinese vs. Western European attitude
3. culture and business: Hong Kong - Germany - Western European target countries
  • Status and hierarchy: Effective techniques to improve cooperation with Chinese people and achieve good results.
  • Individualism vs. group harmony: important aspects of cooperation with Hong Kong
  • Emotionality vs. neutrality: How much emotion can you show in a business context in order to be successful when working with Hong Kong?
  • Punctuality vs. time flexibility: How do you benefit from the professional connection of different attitudes to time management?
  • Direct vs. indirect communication: How do you quickly read between the lines?
  • Performance and relationships: How do you combine both? What dangers does understatement hide?
4. Successful cooperation – Practical suggestions

1. Professional communication

Verbal communication

  • How do you learn to formulate messages and requirements indirectly but clearly without Chinese partners losing face and you losing business?
  • Proven procedures: Inductive and deductive information perception
  • What frictional losses arise from constructive criticism according to the Western European model: solution strategies for Hong Kong.
  • How do you learn to read quickly between the lines: What is not said is often more important than what is said.
  • 4 forms of “yes”: What tools are there to safely decipher whether “yes” actually means “no”?

Non-verbal communication

  • Body language: How do you correctly identify signals?
  • Eye contact: How can you find out whether the business partner is lying or simply showing respect?
  • Facial expressions and gestures: How can you quickly and accurately recognize what people from Hong Kong mean?
  • Tone of voice: The tone makes the music – How do you understand what is going on without mastering the Chinese language well? Concrete tips

2. Successful negotiation

  • Negotiation preparation: What should you know about negotiating partners? Can you trust formal sources of information?
  • Negotiation types: Power, knowledge and relationships – what should you consider?
  • Excessive demands: how should you deal with them in order to still make a good deal?
  • Concessions under time pressure: How do you avoid typical traps?
  • How to achieve a "win-win" in Hong Kong

3. Business meetings and discussions

  • Preparation: Which factors are important to ensure that meetings and discussions are carried out efficiently?
  • Time management: According to which special patterns do meetings and discussions take place?
  • Agenda: How do you ensure that the agenda is known to all participants?
  • Process: Which Chinese special features should you consider?
  • Follow-up: how do you ensure that the results are actually implemented?

4. Decision-making

  • At what level are decisions made? – Influence of corporate culture
  • How do you efficiently involve employees from Hong Kong in the decision-making process?
  • How can you positively influence the assumption of responsibility?

5. Employee management and motivation

  • The role of the supervisor: Status and social responsibility
  • Father or friend – Pros and Cons
  • Which motivational factors are the strongest?
  • Joint events after work: how can you motivate positively with little money?
  • How do you keep the best employees in the company?

6. Conflict resolution

  • Resolve or avoid conflicts – opportunities and risks
  • What dangers arise if you address problems directly?
  • Constructive conflict resolution: does it work in Hong Kong?
  • How did you successfully resolve conflicts through the professional use of indirect style?

7. Efficient work with government authorities

  • Power and importance of government authorities: what should you consider before the initial contact?
  • How do you make Chinese officials allies?
  • Possible consequences if foreigners do not adhere to the “rules of the game.”

8. HR Aspects and Personnel Development

  • What do Chinese colleagues and partners understand by HR? How does it differ in principle from the Western concept?
  • Efficiency of Chinese employees: What should you consider when selecting, managing and promoting staff?
  • Expat or Local: Which way is the right one in which situations?
  • Tasks of an HR department: processes, responsibilities, special features. Where are the biggest differences to Germany and Western European countries?
  • Personnel development
  • Further education: Chinese special features
  • Localization of Western concepts – what should you consider in order to avoid typical mistakes?

9. Teamwork

  • How do you form and motivate well-functioning teams?
  • Cross-Functional Teams – Communication as the biggest challenge: How should you proceed?

10. Communication with company headquarters

  • How do you create understanding in company headquarters for Chinese challenges?
  • How do you explain that the "rules of the game" are different in Hong Kong?
  • How can you turn Hong Kong expertise into a success factor for your own career?
5. Anyone who is very familiar with business etiquette will be respected by Chinese people
  • How do you make a good first impression in Hong Kong - what should you bear in mind to avoid being seen as arrogant?
  • Clothes make people: How do Chinese people judge a foreign business partner based on their clothing?
  • Greeting: What should you pay attention to in order to show respect and save face?
  • Business cards – what belongs there, what makes you ridiculous?
  • Men and women – handshake or hand kiss – when is what appropriate?
  • Gifts as an important part of initiating business
  • On what occasions do you give which gifts?
  • How do you decline expensive and exclusive gifts without endangering the business relationship?
  • Chinese people do BUSINESS at BUSINESS dinners: Roles of the guest and host
  • How do you use business dinners to achieve success in difficult and problematic conversations?
  • To drink or not to drink: What should you consider at a business dinner?
  • Dancing, singing, karaoke: do you have to participate?
6. Corporate cultures and their influence on successful intercultural cooperation
  • 4 variants of corporate cultures
    • "Family" - power orientation: What essential aspects of this corporate culture are important to you in Hong Kong business?
    • 'Eiffel Tower' – Role orientation: What opportunities and risks does this category hide?
    • "Guided missile" - project orientation: In which contexts is this variant expedient for your Hong Kong business?
    • "Incubator" realization: Which facets of this category are particularly essential for Hong Kong?
  • Which combination of the 4 options is the most efficient for your company in Hong Kong?
  • Which factors and risks regarding corporate culture should be considered?
7. Daily aspects - opportunities and challenges
  • Accommodation: What should you pay attention to when looking for an apartment?
  • Security:
    • Security specifics in Hong Kong
    • Is it okay to go out in the evening as a man or as a woman?
    • Which areas should you avoid?
    • Important contacts to responsible authorities.
  • Chinese Medical Care:
    • Should you go to Chinese or foreign doctors?
    • What do you do in a medical emergency?
    • In which pharmacies can you buy medication?
    • What measures should you take before traveling to China?
  • Schools and kindergartens:
    • Which schools and kindergartens are there?
    • What is the Chinese attitude towards child rearing and education?
    • What are the expectations of teachers and parents?
  • Food and drink:
    • Which foods can you buy without hesitation, which should you best avoid?
    • Which types of drinking water are you allowed to buy? What should you pay attention to when buying?
    • Eating in restaurants and canteens: Chinese hygiene and quality
  • Leisure:
    • What are the sights worth seeing in the target regions?
    • What is the best way to get there? What should be considered in winter and summer?
    • Safety aspects and formal regulations when traveling in China
    • What sports facilities are there?
8. Long-term success
  • 6 phases of developing intercultural competence
  • How do you adapt quickly and deliver good results from day one?
  • What difficulties will the family struggle with – how can you alleviate them? Concrete assistance
  • What qualities are crucial for adapting quickly to the working environment in Hong Kong?
  • Culture shock: how do you prepare?
  • How long does the slightly depressive mood last and how do you deal with it?
  • How do partners and especially children deal with culture shock most efficiently?
  • Back home – Reintegration
  • Why do a third of seconded employees terminate their employment contracts before returning to their home country?
  • How do you prepare professionally for the return?
  • Which expectation regarding the next professional step is most productive?
  • Development of an individual action plan for each participant

Request now

  • January 23-24, 2025
  • January 27-28, 2025
  • February 17-18, 2025
  • February 24-25, 2025
  • March 10-11, 2025
  • March 17-18, 2025
  • April 7-8, 2025
  • April 14-15, 2025
  • May 8-9, 2025
  • May 19-20, 2025
  • June 2-3, 2025
  • June 26-27, 2025
  • July 14-15, 2025
  • July 28-29, 2025
  • August 4-5, 2025
  • August 25-26, 2025
  • September 8-9, 2025
  • September 29-30, 2025
  • October 13-14, 2025
  • October 27-28, 2025
  • November 3-4, 2025
  • November 24-25, 2025
  • December 1-2, 2025
  • December 8-9, 2025

If you already have other commitments on the dates mentioned, please contact us. Due to the demand for intercultural training, Hong Kong alternative dates often arise at short notice.

In order to best accommodate our clients and offer high added value, we conduct open intercultural seminars Hong Kong in selected cases even with one participant.

Request now

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