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Evaluating existing training suppliers
Once signed, companies rarely update contracts with training providers even though a discussion of training fees seems to be a regular event. Nonetheless, important factors such as travel expenses or secondary costs need to be checked on a regular basis.

Qualifying potential training providers
The key to assessing potential training providers is to find out how well they fit to what you want to achieve with the training. It’s important to get to the point quickly and here are a few questions that can help you decide if the people you’re talking to are ‘right’ for your company.

Building authentic intercultural business relationships – part 3
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Building authentic intercultural business relationships – part 2
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Building authentic intercultural business relationships – part 1
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Negotiation tactics – Why silence is golden
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3 Entertaining TED talks on culture
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8 great books for busy managers you may have missed in 2015
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How can you react to increasingly specific requests for training?
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Identify your training goals for 2016 with these 4 questions
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What comes first, the coffee or the meeting?
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Working with Chinese colleagues and suppliers
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Communicating across cultures – What’s in a name?
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Doing business successfully in Germany – from a German perspective
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I recently asked my German IT participants…


How do your training skills compare to Fred Flintstone and his car?
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Not everyone’s a natural at small talk
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Why small talk is never a waste of time in America
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Sequential and Synchronic Views of Time
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"Are we on time?"
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Softening your phrases in business communication
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Building business relationships with the Chinese
One of the companies where I train recently opened a plant…


Keys to doing business with India
Over a period of eight years, I've worked in India in various…



