Seminar tackles how to handle expats, foreigners

MANILA, Philippines - How do you deal effectively with expats and foreigners? How do cultural issues positively and negatively impact on professional relationship?

Recognizing and understanding cultural diversity guarantees to answer these questions and enhance your intercultural effectiveness and competences in communicating, dealing and negotiating with people of different nationalities whether they are your colleagues or bosses at work, clients or stakeholders in business, or even partners in life or in-laws for life!

The Center for Global Best Practices presents the premier launch of this one-day special seminar titled “Filipinos’ Guide in Handling Expatriates and Foreigners” to be held on Feb. 13, at the Shangri-La Hotel, Mandaluyong City.

This will feature the best practices and global gold standard in cultural diversity training that will provide you with authoritative research studies and proven practical ways to give you a deeper understanding of how to effectively work and interact with people from other countries by taking into consideration valuable cultural aspects, and highlighting similarities and differences.

For details and a complete list of seminars, you may log on to www.cgbp.org or call (02) 556-8968/69, Cebu lines (032) 512-3106/07 or Baguio line (o74) 423-5148.

Lecturers include Marie Segura, course director and lead facilitator on cultural diversity programs of the Center for Global Best Practices and who has done extensive cultural awareness programs in various multinational organizations in the Asia-Pacific region including Deutsche Bank and ADB.

She is a certified Culture coach specialist of ITAP International and is also the official Ken Blanchard leadership programs global facilitator.

This will also feature Ramon M. de Leon, formerly managing director of Ayala Corp., under the office of the lead director for infrastructure, who will provide many practical examples and success stories of his experiences dealing with locals and expats during his stint with various Ayala-owned subsidiaries such as Globe Telecoms, MWSS, IMI, and BPI Family Bank.