Going|Global

International Business Seminar

Two 40 minute seminars with Q&A.

Atlanta:
Friday September 22, 2006 7-9 pm
1197 Peachtree street NE, Atlanta, GA
(Colony Square/German Cultural Center)
Please RSVP By Sept 15th at 404 875 1211

Long Island NY:
At the Lecture Hall of the Nassau County Bar Association
1325 Franklin Avenue, Garden City, New York 11530
December 7, 2006 4:30pm

Seminar 1-Preparing Yourself

Participants in this workshop will learn how to behave and operate in any foreign country; about generally addressing different business cultures, language and communication issues; how to set goals before each meeting and trip, how to prepare and now to follow up.

For example, issues such as different meanings and connotations of certain words and concepts in different cultures and contexts will be addressed.

This Course will also focus on different perceptions of the United States, abroad, and introduce effective methods to present oneself, one's business and goals, and to talk about the U.S.

Seminar 2-Preparing to Understand the Other Party

This workshop will address how to quickly assess national business practices notably: corporate laws; standards & regulations; and foreign investment codes; and explain how they are practiced in different countries. Also, how best to prepare own strategic goals and then reconcile them with an economic environment and with a foreign partner's own agenda. Participants will also learn how to assess the real development level of a country, how it affects the market they will address, and receive advice on how to behave in countries where bribes, kickbacks and other deal sweeteners are the rule…

About the Instructor:

André Teissier-duCros, through his firm Targon-GEAN, has been providing strategic services to manufacturers since 1972 in North America, Western Europe, Scandinavia, Japan, China, India, Brazil and other countries (40 in total). He has been instrumental in some 60 strategic alliances (mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, technology transfer including containing various grants and subsidies from six governments). He has an exceptional reputation as a negotiator/facilitator between foreign firm which never met before, between embittered foreign competitors, between firms and government agencies. Negotiations he handled were between India and Japan; Brazil and Japan; Iran, France and Canada; France and India, Russia, Italy, Germany Iceland, Japan, UK, Canada; Italy and the Netherlands; Germany and Canada; India, Switzerland, Spain. André Teissier-duCros's clients and ex-clients are often world leaders on their markets. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences. He taught for 6 years the “Strategic Competitive assessment” class at Georgia Tech. He is a US Citizen, by birth half British, half French, with family ties in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, South East Asia and the US.

Targon-GEAN
Atlanta, GA - USA
Tel: +1-404-284-1828 Fax: +1-404-284-3156 Cell: +1-404-431-1895
Member of the Going|Global Seminar Program
www.geanoverseas.com
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