Workshop: Empowering European Defence Companies through collaboration
2 days – 1 or 2 facilitators – 25 people Maximum
Highlights of this workshop for the EU defence industry
1. Turn Cultural Diversity into Your Secret Weapon for Innovation, Excellence, and Speed
2. Eliminate Friction and Strengthen Collaboration with Cultural & Emotional Intelligence
3. Ignite Passion and Keep Your Team Consistently Motivated
What is the purpose of this workshop for the defence industry
This Gugin workshop equips defence industry companies in Europe and Canada with the tools to leverage cultural diversity for faster innovation and efficient product delivery. By embracing diverse perspectives, participants will learn to enhance collaboration, problem-solving, and decision-making, leading to a more agile and competitive defence sector.
One of the European Defence Fund‘s primary goals is to promote cooperation between companies, including SMEs, and research actors throughout the Union.
The EU Defence Innovation Scheme (EUDIS) is an instrument enabled by the European Defence Fund (EDF) to strengthen defence innovation in the European Union.
What will you learn?
• Leveraging Cultural Diversity for Innovation – Apply practical techniques to turn diverse perspectives into actionable, innovative solutions for companies in the defence industries in Europe and Canada.
• Quick Wins for Cross-Cultural Collaboration – Implement immediate strategies to improve teamwork, trust, and communication across European and Canadian teams.
• Accelerating Decision-Making & Product Delivery – Use cultural insights to streamline processes, reduce misunderstandings, and speed up execution.
• Bridging Communication Gaps Effectively – Adopt clear frameworks for overcoming language and cultural barriers to ensure smooth cooperation between the companies involved in a European and/or Canadian defence project
• Building High-Performance Multinational Teams – Apply hands-on leadership techniques to foster alignment, motivation, and efficiency in diverse teams.
• Actionable and ready-to-use Strategies for Immediate Impact – Develop a personalised action plan with concrete steps to improve collaboration and innovation right away.
What are the teaching/facilitation methods?
Please note that this course is not conducted online, aligning with our commitment to activity-based learning principles.
Course options
This course is offered in two formats: a 1-day option and a more comprehensive 2-day option. The extended duration of the 2-day course allows for additional exercises and provides ample time to apply creative problem-solving solutions directly to real challenges within your organisation.
Why should you choose Cross-Cultural training from Gugin?
From we started the company in 2001 we knew we would need an engine that could keep us ahead of the competition and constantly deliver world-class consultancy and training. The world is constantly changing and we need to change with it and ideally develop services that address the agenda of tomorrow. Gugin stands on 3 pillars: Consulting, Training and Research. They fuel each other with great ideas for innovation and service development. When, for instance, we are helping a company with corporate cultural change we might discover cross-cultural issues, we haven’t seen before. We then research it further and find a great solution for the client and we can upgrade our training portfolio.
So you will NEVER experience us using 50-year-old research, like Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, which promotes cultural stereotypes based on nationalities. In fact, our research has shown that these stereotypes don’t exist and that if you promote stereotypes like “the French are like… and the Canadians are like…” you will just create more conflicts.
In everything we do, we focus on how to create synergies from cultural diversity, and our approach is generic. Bringing different nationalities together is no different from bringing different companies, professions, age groups, or sub-cultures inside a company together. All our training gives you a generic tool for leveraging cultural diversity, no matter where it exists.
We develop generic cultural intelligence you can use everywhere
About Gugin Training Modules
All our corporate training modules are designed as intensive, interactive learning modules. You can combine the training modules almost as you like. They can also fit into your existing training programs or corporate university curriculum. We also have longer, more in-depth courses. Please see the complete list of standard courses we offer. We also design a lot of specialised training and coaching programs together with our clients if the existing courses don’t meet the needs.
Prerequisites for attending
The attendees are expected to have personal cross-cultural experiences that include having been in situations where they were uncertain about what to do because they were outside their cultural comfort zone.
Practicalities
You will organise the venue – everything included – and manage the participants. Gugin will provide instructor and course material. Gugin can also be a full-service course organiser, but usually, our clients want to organise the practicalities themselves. You can invite 12 people to each course module.