Acculturation Course for Expats
Acculturation: cultural modification of an individual, group,
or people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another
culture; also: a merging of cultures as a result of prolonged
contact (Webster Dictionary)
Are you an expat in Romania having difficulties in understanding business
and political environment, local culture and customs?
Are you a manager dealing with people that don’t share your vision,
don’t agree with your methods and don’t fulfil effectively their tasks?
Are you a leader feeling that your communication skills can’t generate
confidence and team spirit to your Romanian colleagues?
Are you a person living in Romania and wondering why people react
strangely in a certain situation, why your neighbors are not your friends
yet?
That’s because you are not familiar with Romanian people general character,
with how their qualities and defects were forged in history.
The Acculturation Course for Expats is the best tool to repair the situation,
to get satisfaction in your professional relationships with your colleagues and
to make a better job, to have an appropriate attitude interacting with
Romanians and getting real support from them.
The Acculturation Course for Expats:
is a unique attractive presentation using modern graphics, pictures,
maps, facts and figures, legends and popular stories
provides you with the essential facts from Romanian history,
explaining how events, peaceful periods and wars, defeats and
victories, local heroes and European rulers had a fundamental
influence on people’s character, on their attitude toward work,
regulations, discipline, leadership. Having all this information you will
be able to use all the tips offered by this Course in order to adapt your
leadership to specific local conditions.
gives you the picture of Romanians’ contribution to world cultural
heritage, allowing understanding the pride and the deception of a
nation and the consequences on people’s behavior with expats and
foreign management style.
offers a lot of tips in dealing with the typical Romanian public servant
enables you and your colleagues to interract effectively with Romanian
authorities and public administration employees: find out when NO
means YES, YES means MAYBE and MAYBE means NO…
portrays the regular Romanian employee (if there is such thing)
sketches the political framework and latest developments in politics
underlining major parties, alliances and personalities.
has several chapters with suggestive titles, containing leadership
consultancy tips:
o What Romanians think about them?
o What Romanians usually expect from foreign managers?
o How to get best results in dealing with Romanian employees?
Radu Cosarca:
has a management experience of almost 20 years in broadcast and media
industry, leading some of the most important TV stations and News
departments in Romania, permanently having several hundreds of
employees.(TVR, Tele 7, Antena 1, National TV)
had a well known career in media as journalist, editor, talk show host and
news anchor
5 times awarded with APTR Prize (4 times for best News show – in
different televisions, 1 – best talk show)
taught communication and news writing at Bucharest University.
is now Communication strategist and leadership advisor to some major
companies in Romanian business environment
Audience: top and middle management, foreign experts
Duration: 5 hours
Radu Cosarca: cell phone:(+4) 0744 586 000; mail: cosarcar@yahoo.com