Intercultural training: Living and working in Ghana

Summary

Target audience

Employees preparing for an assignment in Ghana and their partners

Prerequisite

No prerequisite

Objectives

This seminar aims at significantly improving the ability of the participants to meet the challenges of living and working abroad. The objective is to enable them to identify the stumbling blocks that lie ahead and to be able to adapt and integrate in Ghana.

At the end of this training, participants will have the necessary skills to:

Be aware of their own cultural baggage
Understand Ghanaian context and culture
Analyze situations in which misunderstandings may arise and identify ways of communicating more effectively
Reduce and manage the symptoms of culture shock
Understand Ghanaian mindset, work practices, decision-making processes and negotiating styles
Strike the right balance between personal et professional life

Added value

Conducted by an intercultural expert consultant
Decoding the Nomad’ Profiler
Alternating theory and practical exercises
Access to Digital Learning for 1 year
Sharing best practices and personalized action plan

ACCESSIBILITY

All our training courses are accessible to people with disabilities. Each training project will be the subject of a case study by our teams, in order to adapt the training program.

Program

Module 1 : Successful personal integration in Ghana

1. Cross-cultural awareness : the key to a successful expatriation

Taking stock of one's own cultural baggage
Culture shock and the integration process
Identifying and going beyond cultural stereotypes

2. Key aspects of Ghanaian culture

A relatively stable member state of the Commonwealth
The impact of British colonization
A multiethnic and tribal society
A complex political situation

3. Ghanaian values and behaviour patterns

The importance of patriarchal values
Looking beyond the stereotypes: The role of Ghanaian women
The huge importance attached to private life
An intrinsically hierarchical society
The contrasts between rural and urban life
The importance of religion
A haphazard view of time
Irony and teasing
A rather fatalistic mindset

4. Practical day to day information

Focus on the host town or city
Transport, administration, housing, security, hygiene and healthcare
Social life, leisure activities
Schools, extracurricular activities, sport

Module 2 : Successful professional integration in Ghana

1. The Ghanaian corporate world

A paternalistic company structure
A high degree of formality
A tradition of professional comradeship and fraternity
The role of national and local authorities

2. Effective communication with the Ghanaians

The importance of interpersonal relationships and networking
The extensive use of gestural and non-verbal communication
The deceptive ease of explicit communication
English, dialects, and the selection of an interpreter

3. Working with Ghanaian teams

Goodwill, an open mind and charisma
Being firm but fair
Supervising, explaining and understanding
Encouraging personal and collective success

4. Successful meetings and negotiations with the Ghanaians

Ensuring flexibility and coherence
Creating a climate of trust
Socializing outside working hours
Attitudes to contracts and their implications

5. Final handy tips

Caution, patience and humility
Social standards, gifts, business cards, dress code
Sensitive subjects: politics, history, religion
Humour: a double-edged sword

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Living and working in Ghana