Intercultural training India: 200 experts from
business practice

In-house Training India

Seminar content: Intercultural training India

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 India

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 India in selected cases even with one participant.

Specific training India

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 India

Intercultural training in India from Global Cultures provides you with practical knowledge about the business mentality of Indian partners.
The Indian market is booming and its growth is accelerating rapidly. India is increasingly establishing itself as an economic heavyweight. The fabulous world of maharajas, fakirs and tiger hunts is a thing of the past. Not, however, the rich cultural heritage that gave rise to these times. Intercultural competence is increasingly becoming a success factor because cultural knowledge is essential for business success.

Why us: Experts from the business world

  • They are Indian or have lived and worked in India for a long time – they have absorbed the specifics of the Indian market “with their mother’s milk”, so to speak, or have experienced them at first hand
  • You have several years of professional experience in management or other senior positions in India
  • Their high level of methodological competence guarantees a fast and efficient transfer of know-how for our customers
  • 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.
  • Your professional qualifications ensure a targeted and professional structure of our seminars for the rapid and efficient acquisition of intercultural competence

Increase success rates in international business

With intercultural training in India, you can significantly increase your success rate in Indian business – and benefit from more efficient project processes, more profitable cooperation and significantly improved negotiation results. Intercultural training in India is therefore the key factor for your business success in India.

Individual solution strategies

A culture as large and complicated as India’s also brings with it a few hurdles. For example, the Indian caste system, which needs to be respected, or the rather indirect and relationship-oriented communication. To help you overcome these challenges in the best possible way, our intercultural training in India offers you solution strategies that are individually tailored to your requirements.

Intercultural expertise from the private sector

Thanks to innovative teaching methods and our experts’ professional experience abroad, the development of intercultural competence in our intercultural training in India is particularly sustainable. Our experts come from the private sector and can therefore optimally combine business requirements with intercultural aspects.

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 India
  • Typical mistakes that can be avoided through intercultural training in India: Analysis and lessons learned
  • How do you manage to be among the best: tactics and strategy
2. intercultural competence as the key to business success
  • Why is in-depth knowledge of Indian history, culture and politics essential for business success in India? What facts should you know in order to build a solid long-term business relationship?
  • How an understanding of Indian behavior enables a significant increase in competence and a competitive advantage in Indian business
  • Why is building a solid, long-term and people-oriented relationship necessary in India? Discussion about the dangers of a purely factual attitude typical of Western Europe in intercultural training in India
  • How do hierarchies and role perceptions in India differ from those in Western Europe: opportunities and risks
3rd Intercultural Training India | India - Fiction and Truth

What influence does the Indian mentality have on intercultural cooperation?

  • Many Indias - How does regional diversity influence society and business?
  • What are the consequences of the British influence on modern business life?
  • We speak Hinglish - What special features of communication should you bear in mind?
  • Religious customs in the workplace - should you tolerate them?
  • Tradition and modernity - should you consult a guru at the start of a project?
  • Religion and tradition - why do they play a central role in business life, even for western Indians?
  • Caste thinking is in people's minds - what aspects should you consider?
  • Family orientation - opportunities for companies and risks of nepotism
  • Reasons behind Actions: How can you better understand and interpret the behavior of your business partners from India?
4. intercultural training India | culture and business: comparison with Western European target countries
  • Status and hierarchy: Efficient techniques to improve communication and achieve good results.
  • Individualism vs. group harmony: what should you pay attention to in order to operate efficiently in India?
  • Emotionality vs. neutrality: How much emotion can you show in a business context to achieve success in India?
  • Punctuality vs. time flexibility: How do you benefit from the professional combination of Indian and Western 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? Concrete tips for intercultural training in India
5. intercultural training India | business success - practical suggestions

1. professional communication:

Verbal communication

  • How do you learn to formulate messages and requirements indirectly but clearly?
  • Tried and tested tactics for efficient and effective written communication - in intercultural training in India: Inductive and deductive perception of information
  • What dangers arise from constructive criticism based on the Western European model: solution strategies for India.
  • How do you learn to read quickly between the lines: What is not said is often more important than what is said.
  • What tactics are there to reliably decipher whether "yes" actually means "no"?

Non-verbal communication:

  • Body language: How do you correctly identify body language signals? How do you learn the skills that are essential for success in India in order to use body language in a targeted manner?
  • 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 your Indian conversation partner means?
  • Tone of voice: The tone makes the music - How do you understand what is going on without having a good command of the language? Concrete tips in intercultural training India.

2. Successful negotiation

  • Preparing for negotiations: What should you know about your negotiating partner? Can you trust formal sources of information?
  • Types of negotiation: 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 "win-win" in India - strategies and tactics

3. Business meetings and discussions

  • Preparation: What should you pay attention to so that meetings and discussions are conducted 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?
  • Procedure: What special features should you bear in mind?
  • 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 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 - Efficient tactics in intercultural training India
  • Father or friend – Pros and Cons
  • Which motivational factors are the strongest?
  • Joint events after work: how can you motivate enormously 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 India?
  • How did you successfully resolve conflicts through the professional use of indirect style? Examples and exercises

7. Efficient work with government authorities

  • Power and importance of government authorities: what should you consider before the initial contact?
  • How do you turn an official into an ally?
  • Possible consequences if foreigners do not adhere to the “rules of the game.”

8. HR Aspects and Personnel Development

  • What do Indians understand by HR? How does it differ in principle from the Western concept?
  • Efficiency of Indian 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. What are the biggest differences to Western countries?
  • Further training: Indian specialties
  • 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 an understanding of Indian challenges at company headquarters?
  • How do you explain that the "rules of the game" are different in India?
  • How can you make India competence a success factor for your own career?
6. intercultural training India | Those who have an excellent knowledge of business etiquette are respected by Indians
  • How do you make a good first impression in India - what should you bear in mind to avoid being seen as arrogant?
  • Clothes make the man: How do Indians judge a foreign business partner by his clothes?
  • Greeting: What should you pay attention to in order to show respect and not lose face?
  • Business cards – what belongs there, what makes you ridiculous?
  • Men and women - what should you do?
  • Gifts: Do gifts play the same role in India as they do in Western Europe?
  • On what occasions do you give which gifts?
  • Invitations: Why should you refuse the meal first, even though you want to accept it?
  • Invitations home: in which rooms should you take your shoes off?
  • Why do Indians call themselves "foodies"? What role does food play in initiating business?
  • How to use business lunches to achieve success in difficult and problematic conversations: Strategies and tactics in intercultural training India
  • Restaurant bills - When should bills be paid by the guest and when by the host?
  • To drink or not to drink: What should you consider at a business dinner?
  • Topics of conversation: Which topics are good and which are critical?
  • Humor: What should not be missing and what is "too much"?
  • Polite phrases: Which phrases should you know?
  • What rules should you observe in the society of westernized Indians?
  • Gentleman or colleague - how do men and women treat each other in business? Which gender-specific rules of etiquette should you follow?
7. intercultural training India | corporate cultures and their influence on successful intercultural cooperation
  • 4 variants of corporate cultures, presented in detail in the intercultural training India
    • "Family" - power orientation: What essential aspects of this corporate culture are important to you in India?
    • '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 business in India?
    • "Incubator" realization: Which facets of this category are particularly essential for India?
  • Which combination of the 4 variants is most efficient for your company in India?
  • Which factors and risks regarding corporate culture should be considered?
8th Intercultural Training India | Daily Aspects - Opportunities and Challenges
  • Accommodation: What should you look out for when searching for accommodation?
  • Security:
    • Indian security specifics
    • 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.
  • Medical care:
    • Should you go to Indian or Western doctors?
    • What do you do in a medical emergency?
    • In which pharmacies can you buy medication?
    • What measures should you take before traveling to India?
  • Schools and kindergartens:
    • Which schools and kindergartens are there?
    • What is the Indian 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?
    • Food in restaurants and canteens: Discussion in intercultural training India about hygiene, quality and possible risks
  • 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 India
    • What sports facilities are there?
9. intercultural training India | 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 face - how can you mitigate them? Concrete assistance in intercultural training India
  • What qualities are crucial for adapting quickly to the working environment in India?
  • 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: opportunities and risks
  • 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 of the intercultural training India

"Carpe diem", as not the Indian, but the Latin says. The time frame during a project or before an assignment is often very tight. That's why we also offer our training courses on public holidays or at weekends, so that in these cases your employees are not only prepared in the best possible way, but can also keep to their tight schedule. We would be happy to create an individualized offer for you - we are available at any time by e-mail or telephone!

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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 India 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 India 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 India
  • Typical mistakes that can be avoided through intercultural training in India: Analysis and lessons learned
  • How do you manage to be among the best: tactics and strategy
2. intercultural competence as the key to business success
  • Why is in-depth knowledge of Indian history, culture and politics essential for business success in India? What facts should you know in order to build a solid long-term business relationship?
  • How an understanding of Indian behavior enables a significant increase in competence and a competitive advantage in Indian business
  • Why is building a solid, long-term and people-oriented relationship necessary in India? Discussion about the dangers of a purely factual attitude typical of Western Europe in intercultural training in India
  • How do hierarchies and role perceptions in India differ from those in Western Europe: opportunities and risks
3rd Intercultural Training India | India - Fiction and Truth

What influence does the Indian mentality have on intercultural cooperation?

  • Many Indias - How does regional diversity influence society and business?
  • What are the consequences of the British influence on modern business life?
  • We speak Hinglish - What special features of communication should you bear in mind?
  • Religious customs in the workplace - should you tolerate them?
  • Tradition and modernity - should you consult a guru at the start of a project?
  • Religion and tradition - why do they play a central role in business life, even for western Indians?
  • Caste thinking is in people's minds - what aspects should you consider?
  • Family orientation - opportunities for companies and risks of nepotism
  • Reasons behind Actions: How can you better understand and interpret the behavior of your business partners from India?
4. intercultural training India | culture and business: comparison with Western European target countries
  • Status and hierarchy: Efficient techniques to improve communication and achieve good results.
  • Individualism vs. group harmony: what should you pay attention to in order to operate efficiently in India?
  • Emotionality vs. neutrality: How much emotion can you show in a business context to achieve success in India?
  • Punctuality vs. time flexibility: How do you benefit from the professional combination of Indian and Western 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? Concrete tips for intercultural training in India
5. intercultural training India | business success - practical suggestions

1. professional communication:

Verbal communication

  • How do you learn to formulate messages and requirements indirectly but clearly?
  • Tried and tested tactics for efficient and effective written communication - in intercultural training in India: Inductive and deductive perception of information
  • What dangers arise from constructive criticism based on the Western European model: solution strategies for India.
  • How do you learn to read quickly between the lines: What is not said is often more important than what is said.
  • What tactics are there to reliably decipher whether "yes" actually means "no"?

Non-verbal communication:

  • Body language: How do you correctly identify body language signals? How do you learn the skills that are essential for success in India in order to use body language in a targeted manner?
  • 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 your Indian conversation partner means?
  • Tone of voice: The tone makes the music - How do you understand what is going on without having a good command of the language? Concrete tips in intercultural training India.

2. Successful negotiation

  • Preparing for negotiations: What should you know about your negotiating partner? Can you trust formal sources of information?
  • Types of negotiation: 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 "win-win" in India - strategies and tactics

3. Business meetings and discussions

  • Preparation: What should you pay attention to so that meetings and discussions are conducted 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?
  • Procedure: What special features should you bear in mind?
  • 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 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 - Efficient tactics in intercultural training India
  • Father or friend – Pros and Cons
  • Which motivational factors are the strongest?
  • Joint events after work: how can you motivate enormously 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 India?
  • How did you successfully resolve conflicts through the professional use of indirect style? Examples and exercises

7. Efficient work with government authorities

  • Power and importance of government authorities: what should you consider before the initial contact?
  • How do you turn an official into an ally?
  • Possible consequences if foreigners do not adhere to the “rules of the game.”

8. HR Aspects and Personnel Development

  • What do Indians understand by HR? How does it differ in principle from the Western concept?
  • Efficiency of Indian 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. What are the biggest differences to Western countries?
  • Further training: Indian specialties
  • 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 an understanding of Indian challenges at company headquarters?
  • How do you explain that the "rules of the game" are different in India?
  • How can you make India competence a success factor for your own career?
6. intercultural training India | Those who have an excellent knowledge of business etiquette are respected by Indians
  • How do you make a good first impression in India - what should you bear in mind to avoid being seen as arrogant?
  • Clothes make the man: How do Indians judge a foreign business partner by his clothes?
  • Greeting: What should you pay attention to in order to show respect and not lose face?
  • Business cards – what belongs there, what makes you ridiculous?
  • Men and women - what should you do?
  • Gifts: Do gifts play the same role in India as they do in Western Europe?
  • On what occasions do you give which gifts?
  • Invitations: Why should you refuse the meal first, even though you want to accept it?
  • Invitations home: in which rooms should you take your shoes off?
  • Why do Indians call themselves "foodies"? What role does food play in initiating business?
  • How to use business lunches to achieve success in difficult and problematic conversations: Strategies and tactics in intercultural training India
  • Restaurant bills - When should bills be paid by the guest and when by the host?
  • To drink or not to drink: What should you consider at a business dinner?
  • Topics of conversation: Which topics are good and which are critical?
  • Humor: What should not be missing and what is "too much"?
  • Polite phrases: Which phrases should you know?
  • What rules should you observe in the society of westernized Indians?
  • Gentleman or colleague - how do men and women treat each other in business? Which gender-specific rules of etiquette should you follow?
7. intercultural training India | corporate cultures and their influence on successful intercultural cooperation
  • 4 variants of corporate cultures, presented in detail in the intercultural training India
    • "Family" - power orientation: What essential aspects of this corporate culture are important to you in India?
    • '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 business in India?
    • "Incubator" realization: Which facets of this category are particularly essential for India?
  • Which combination of the 4 variants is most efficient for your company in India?
  • Which factors and risks regarding corporate culture should be considered?
8th Intercultural Training India | Daily Aspects - Opportunities and Challenges
  • Accommodation: What should you look out for when searching for accommodation?
  • Security:
    • Indian security specifics
    • 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.
  • Medical care:
    • Should you go to Indian or Western doctors?
    • What do you do in a medical emergency?
    • In which pharmacies can you buy medication?
    • What measures should you take before traveling to India?
  • Schools and kindergartens:
    • Which schools and kindergartens are there?
    • What is the Indian 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?
    • Food in restaurants and canteens: Discussion in intercultural training India about hygiene, quality and possible risks
  • 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 India
    • What sports facilities are there?
9. intercultural training India | 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 face - how can you mitigate them? Concrete assistance in intercultural training India
  • What qualities are crucial for adapting quickly to the working environment in India?
  • 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: opportunities and risks
  • 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 of the intercultural training India

"Carpe diem", as not the Indian, but the Latin says. The time frame during a project or before an assignment is often very tight. That's why we also offer our training courses on public holidays or at weekends, so that in these cases your employees are not only prepared in the best possible way, but can also keep to their tight schedule. We would be happy to create an individualized offer for you - we are available at any time by e-mail or telephone!

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, India alternative dates often arise at short notice.

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

Request now

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