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Osaamistavoitteet

The objective of the course is to improve the participating talents' skills in communicating both verbally and in print, and to efficiently interact across varying business cultures. In order for professionals to accomplish tasks in hand within the competitive global economy, cross-cultural competence is a must for all experts due to the complexities of the international business environment.

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The course focuses on involving the talents in exploring and tackling situations resulting from inter- and intra-organizational interactions in intercultural working environments. Efficient and effective communication strategies and techniques are pursued for messaging, reporting, concluding negotiations and meetings, and delivering dynamic presentations.
This 5 ECTS course requires 135 hours of student's workload. There will be four online contact lectures of four sessions each which are a must for all attending this course. The rest of the hours will bededicated to reading, researching and preparation. Students are required to prepare in advance before attending the contact sessions in order to gain optimal outcome from the online sessions.
There will be a teamwork and additional self-supervised tasks which are to be accomplish as instructed.