Facilitating French-British co-operation
Brussels, May 14-15, 2009

IPSEN is an innovation driven international pharmaceutical group, whose products are marketed in more than 100 countries. Since the French-British co-operation is crucial for this group, an intercultural session was organised and conducted by Pateau Consultants for managers of both countries.

Cross-Cultural Management (Full-time MBA)
Mannheim, June 12-18, 2009

Jacques Pateau is since June 2009 in charge of the one-week module "Cross Cultural Management" at The Mannheim Business School which is the leading institution in business administration in Germany and particularly known for their outstanding research and high teaching standards. This course is designed for 50 students coming from 25 countries in North America, South America, Asia- Pacific, Africa, and a range of European countries.

Accompanying an international project
Algiers, April-May, November-December, 2009

Pateau Consultants runs for Thales two Bridge seminars with follow-up sessions for the key players in charge of a huge rail signalling project in Algeria, involving French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Algerian teams. The aim of this coaching is to develop skills to overcome cultural differences and to improve their performance as a virtual team

Sonepar two years after...worldwide!
Melbourne, Sao Paulo, Shanghaï, Mexico, April-December, 2009

After the integration of the German-Dutch company Hagemeyer Sonepar a distributor of technical equipment and solutions for electricity professionals is now represented by over 180 companies operating in 35 countries on four continents. The very first module of the Corporate University Sonacademy "Intercultural knowledge" was successfully run this year in Australia, Brazil, China and Mexico.

EADS Astrium (continued)
September-December 2009, Paris, Bremen

Astrium, a wholly owned subsidiary of EADS, is dedicated to providing civil and defence space systems and services. After the successful action launched last year a second series of talks was organised by Pateau Consultants with his UK-expert David Slack about the British culture as well as numerous Franco-German sessions for transverse teams in order to create cohesion and bonding.

Cross-cultural thinking in the automotive industry
Tunis, October, 28-30, 2009

After many intercultural sessions run in Europe and China, Pateau Consultants organised for Faurecia, one of the worldwide leaders in automobile equipment, a specific intercultural teambuilding seminar in Tunesia aiming at improvement and reinforcement of transnational cooperation between back-office and front-office. The 3 target countries were France, Germany and Tunesia.

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