Intercultural Comunicatins

Project producer:
Rafailă Georgiana-Malvina
Why Germany???
 General Facts
 Organized people

 Practical thinking

 Oriented to the hierarchy

 Business planning
 Plan the business meeting with
weeks earlier
 Plan a business meeting with
someone with the same rank as you

 Avoid to plan a greeting in July

or August
 The protocol
 Firm and brief handshake

 Adress to your partners with the last

name and his rank or with Herr/Frau
 Keep the eye contact
 Talk with your partners about art
or international events
For the negotiation process we need to be armed with..

 Statistics, logical arguments and facts

by our experience
 Seriousness, and do not try to make jokes

 Patiente, because they never hurry to

make a decision
Follow up letter after meeting with client

 Confirm on the mail an the contract

every decision on the meeting

 Keep the touch on the phone

 Business meals

 Variety choices
 The tip is 5% of consumption
 Wine or beer
 Don’t start to if until the host begin
 Don’t rest your elbows on the table
 Your hands must to be visible
 General manners
 Talk with a low tone of voice

 Don’t ask personal things

 Don’t feel offended if someone correct

your behavior
 Source:

https://businessculture.org/western-europe/busin
ess-culture-in-germany/meeting-etiquette-in-germ
Many thanks!