Webinar: Know Before You Go – Protocol for Today’s Meetings and Events
Includes a Live Web Event on 02/20/2025 at 1:00 PM (EST)
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Etiquette is all around us—greetings, handshakes, hugs, bows, personal space, etc., if you’re going to do business overseas, you must know these details. Not only to have the best and most effective negotiations, but also to build a successful team.
Objectives
Research is the key to success
- Understand the goals & objectives of the meeting
- Learn the tools available to research the customs & culture of the destination
- Find out what languages are spoken there
- Look at a map—figure out exactly where you’re going
Building Relationships – The Art of Cultural Understanding
- Soft skills are required for success in the international business arena. Understanding communications, proper protocol for a country regarding introductions, gift giving, women, and gestures.
- Review of Monochronic & Polychronic cultures and time
- Become an expert
Marla Harr
Business Etiquette International
Marla Harr is the owner of Business Etiquette International. I have more than three decades of meeting & event management, and educational development experience. I bring to my interactive training a mixture of both the entrepreneurial spirit, corporate professionalism and fun. I am a certified business etiquette and international protocol consultant, former adjunct faculty member of Arizona State, California State, San Deigo State Universities teaching meeting & event management and planning international meetings. Also, a proud member of SHRM, ATD and NSA-AZ. My book “From Campus to Corporate -Soft Skills and Etiquette Tips to Transition with Confidence” is on Amazon.
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