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 Russian cultural codes

Discovering the cultural basics of Russia

• The Russian Federation: central power, republics and regions
• From the Tsars to the Soviet period to the market economy
• The heritage and influence of Orthodoxy, the competition of other beliefs
• The 4 major challenges of Russia today

Understanding Russian values

• Collectivism, individualism and hospitality
• The Slavic imprint, the new values
• Social classes, oligarchs, apparatchiks, Chekists...
• The Russian spirit and its mysteries

Optimize your professional action with Russians

Communicating with Russians

• Understand the implicit: Da, Niet and their hidden meanings
• Pay attention to details: birthdays, gifts and holidays
• Relationships with foreigners, topics of conversation, humor
• The circulation of information, networks

Adapting work methods

• A bureaucratic and Soviet base: the reliance on procedures
• Management methods, importance of hierarchy
• Individual and collective responsibility
• Risk-taking and low initiative: a paradox?

Conducting successful meetings and negotiations with Russians

• Know how decisions are made, the importance of personal relationships
• Bureaucracy and negotiation with the authorities
• Trust over contracts
• The importance of krisha, learning to compromise

Adopting best practices

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

Step 3: E-learning to go further

Explore Country Packs

Developing your knowledge of the country

• Cultural guidelines
• Business life
• Overview