Step 1: E-learning

ADOPTING AN INTERCULTURAL APPROACH

• Specify your context and expectations
• Become aware of cultural filters
• Discover your cultural profile

Step 2: Group training session

Understanding Senegalese cultural codes

Discovering the cultural basics of Senegal

• A cultural mosaic
• Muslim tradition
• A delicate political and economic context
• The impact of traditions in daily life

Understanding Senegalese values

• A patriarchal structure
• Religious base and weight of community feeling
• Respect for age and status, sense of appearances
• A communication to decipher

Optimize your professional action with Senegalese

Communicating with Senegalese

• Building trust: perseverance and leniency
• The fundamental role of greetings
• Listening skills and open-mindedness
• Demonstrate frankness and honesty
• Give the right feedback in a situation

Adapting work methods

• A paternalistic and hierarchical structure
• Finding the right balance between flexibility and firmness
• Time and deadline management
• The weight of bureaucracy

Conducting successful meetings and negotiations with Senegalese

• Define and prepare the context
• Manage the agenda and timing efficiently
• Lead the meeting
• Integrate the right negotiation strategies and tactics

Adopting best practices

• Recognize key principles
• Avoid pitfalls, mistakes and misunderstandings
• Create a tailor-made action plan

Step 3 : E-learning to go further

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Developing your knowledge of the country

• Cultural guidelines
• Business Life
• Overview