New Training Offerings!
- Budgeting Basics
- Challenging Negative Attitudes
- Cultural Competency
- Drug Issues in the Workplace
- Effective Negotiation Skills
- Finance for the Non-financial Professionals
- How to get noticed...for the right reason
- Identification Theft: More Than Just an Inconvenience
- Improving Customer Service
- Industrial Safety and Accident Prevention
- Inventories
- Media Relations
- Preventing Workplace Violence
- Succession Planning
- Supervising Former Peers
- Understanding Japanese Culture
- Unleash Your Creativity
Understanding Japanese Culture
Session Format:
One 4-Hour Session
Introduction
Effective communication goes beyond the formal study of language to patterns and assumptions that underlie speech. This training is designed to assist Americans who interact with Japanese persons by introducing some of the cultural similarities and differences between Japanese and American communication.
Objectives
The participant will understand cultural differences in communication patterns between Japanese and Americans.
Content Outline
- Greetings and their underlying cultural assumptions
- The proper form
- Formality and informality
- Human relationships - in and out
- Saving face
- Culture in language - topical examples (e.g., gifts, tea and coffee, eating)
- Telephones and letters
- Nonverbal behavior
- Questions you always wanted to ask
Who Should Attend
This seminar is intended for anyone who shares the workplace with Japanese and interacts with them on a regular basis.
