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About Your Guide
Your guide to Italy: Helen Burgess
Web site: [insight-italy.com]
Ask Helen Burgess a question on the Message Board
About your guide:
This section was put together with help from Helen Burgess (Helen.burgess@libero.it), the senior director of Insight Italy - a management training consultancy which specialises in running workshops and providing individual coaching and advice for business people who:
- do business with Italian companies or multinationals - transfer to live and work in Italy - lead or are team members of multinational teams - attend international meetings or negotiations
Insight Italy helps to get the best out of cultural diversity and avoid cultural pitfalls. Better cultural awareness and understanding leads to more effective business relationships and increases company growth and profitability. Seminar topics include: doing business in Italy, achieving high performing international teams, coping with culture shock (at home and at work), managing cultural diversity in the workplace, and the logistics of settling in Italy.
Helen Burgess has considerable experience working in an international environment and knows first hand the importance of getting cross-cultural relationships and communications right. With almost 15 years experience with global FMCG companies she has been responsible for leading international project teams and working closely with people from all over the world. Having worked in Ireland, the UK, the Netherlands and Italy she now helps others gain cultural insights and improve their effectiveness.
Helen can be contacted by e-mail Helen.burgess@libero.it or phone: +39 0371 36013
Italy: About Italy - Part 1
Geography, climate, regions and cities, government
Italy: About Italy - Part 2 Economy, entrance requirements, legislation, and religion
Italy: Appointment Alert! Making appointments
Italy: Business Dress Guidelines for business dress
Italy: Conversation Welcome topics of conversation
Italy: First Name or Title? Addressing others with respect
Italy: Gift Giving Selecting and presenting an appropriate business gift
Italy: Let's Make a Deal! - Part 1 What you should know before negotiating
Italy: Let's Make a Deal! - Part 2 What you should know before negotiating
Italy: Prosperous Entertaining - Part 1 Entertaining for business success
Italy: Prosperous Entertaining - Part 2 Entertaining for business success
Italy: Prosperous Entertaining - Part 3 Entertaining for business success
Italy: Public Behaviour Acceptable public conduct
Useful Web Sites for Italy
Economist Country Briefings: Italy
World Health Organization: Italy
Privacy Policy
Italy Business Etiquette and Culture
This guide to Italy business etiquette and culture covers many aspects of doing business in Italy. It is our goal to provide practical, accurate, and up-to-date tips on Italy business culture and etiquette, written by experts in business consulting in Italy. We encourage visitors to leave questions or comments on on our discussion boards, moderated by experts in intercultural training and business. Your contributions help us make Executive Planet™ the most comprehensive resource on Helen Burgess business etiquette and culture on the Internet.
This guide contains the following articles:
Let's Make a Deal - negotiating tactics, the value of connections, recommended business card style and content, business card protocol, sitting and presenting yourself in meetings, language for brochures and promotional material, pace of business, preferred presentation styles, final agreements, thinking styles, adherance to company policy, and more on Italy business culture . . .
Prosperous Entertaining - typical mealtimes throughout the day, best venues for business entertaining, punctuality for social events, dinner table seating etiquette, mealtime etiquette, importance of alcohol, toasting, guidelines for hosting a banquet/social event, what foods should be served/avoided, accepting and declining invitations, and more on Italy business etiquette. . .
Appointment Alert! - typical vacation times, recommended apppointment times, length of the lunch hour, signals that indicate beginning or end of an appointment, best arrival time (early, late, right on time), and more on Italy business culture. . .
Gift Giving - recommended gifts, gifts to avoid, good and bad colours for wrapping paper, how to present a gift to individuals and groups, guidelines for receiving gifts, and more on Italy business culture. . .
First Name or Title? - using titles such as 'Doctor', naming conventions to avoid, when to use first names, and more. . .
Public Behaviour - how to greet strangers and introduce yourself, the rules for men shaking hands with women, acceptable demeanor, rules for eye contact, gestures/sayings to avoid, and more on Italy business culture. . .
Business Dress - is dress modest, conservative, etc., specific dress requirements for men and women, what visitors should wear to social functions, and more on Italy business culture. .
Conversation - welcome and unwelcome topics of conversation, the role of compliments, the tone of voice to be used, whether your hosts are physical or more reserved, and more on Italy business etiquette. .. . .
