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About Your Guide
Your guide to Sweden: Accept Cross Culture
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About your guide:
This guide was put together with help from Accept Cross Culture, a communications company providing solutions to cross cultural differences. Accept Cross Culture teaches cross cultural communication skills to people and companies in international business (Swedes as well as Foreigners) and provides Swedish language training and practical services to expatriates coming to work and live in Sweden.
ACCEPT Cross Culture AB assists multinational companies engaged in Sweden to improve their results by generating an awareness of the significance of cross-cultural problems, and the necessity of finding the appropriate solutions.
Elisabeth Brage, Managing Director & Consultant (Left in picture)
Elisabeth Brage is an intercultural communications expert with over twenty years of experience in teaching intercultural management skills to foreign managers in Sweden. She has overseen the linguistic and cultural training of corporate managers and their families from all over the world. As Director of ACCEPT Cross Culture, Elisabeth is responsible for ensuring that the needs of our clients are met by service of the highest quality.
Sweden: Appointment Alert!
Making appointments
Sweden: Business Dress Guidelines for business dress
Sweden: Conversation Welcome topics of conversation
Sweden: First Name or Title? Addressing others with respect
Sweden: Gift Giving Selecting and presenting an appropriate business gift
Sweden: Let's Make a Deal! - Part 1 What you should know before negotiating
Sweden: Let's Make a Deal! - Part 2 What you should know before negotiating
Sweden: Let's Make a Deal! - Part 3 What you should know before negotiating
Sweden: Prosperous Entertaining - Part 1 Entertaining for business success
Sweden: Prosperous Entertaining - Part 2 Entertaining for business success
Sweden: Prosperous Entertaining - Part 3 Entertaining for business success
Sweden: Prosperous Entertaining - Part 4 Entertaining for business success
Sweden: Public Behaviour - Part 1 Acceptable public conduct
Sweden: Public Behaviour - Part 2 Acceptable public conduct
Useful Web Sites for Sweden
About.com: Sweden for Visitors
Economist Country Briefings: Sweden
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Sweden Business Etiquette and Culture
This guide to Sweden business etiquette and culture covers many aspects of doing business in Sweden. It is our goal to provide practical, accurate, and up-to-date tips on Sweden business culture and etiquette, written by experts in business consulting in Sweden. 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 Accept Cross Culture 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 Sweden 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 Sweden 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 Sweden 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 Sweden 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 Sweden 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 Sweden 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 Sweden business etiquette. .. . .
