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In order to bind foreign employees to your company in the long term and create trust, the efforts of all those involved are required. We are happy to support you in developing strategies for attracting and retaining foreign employees and specialists and in establishing a lively welcoming culture in your company.

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If your corporate culture is also a welcoming culture, you will be an attractive employer for skilled workers from abroad.

What does a welcoming culture mean? You create the framework conditions to support your foreign employees in their integration into the company and society. Your measures are not only aimed at newly recruited international specialists, but also at existing employees. After all, a welcoming culture can only be implemented if everyone in the company is actively involved. Give your existing team the opportunity to ask questions and express concerns and involve long-term employees in the onboarding process.

Welcoming new employees properly creates the basis for cooperation. A foreign specialist not only chooses a new employer, but also a new country, a new society and a new culture. Whether they feel welcomed and accepted as people is a decisive factor in ensuring that skilled workers stay.

Expanding the welcoming culture in your company means seeing the employment of skilled workers from abroad as an enriching added value, understanding the integration of new employees as an opportunity from which everyone can benefit, and promoting these values both internally and externally.

The development of a welcoming culture must be tailored to your company's specific situation. To do this, select measures that suit your company. However, there are a few success factors when establishing a welcoming culture that you should take into account in your individual planning and implementation. These include above all

• Sensitizing and training your managers
• preparing your existing staff for the integration of people with a different cultural background
• a general openness to dealing productively with cultural diversity

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An important part of a good welcoming culture is also the comprehensive topic of "onboarding"the "onboarding" of new employees.

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Intercultural competence is the ability to deal respectfully with people from other cultures, to accept differences and to find common ground. It is an indispensable basis for the international success of a company.

The prerequisites for successful cooperation in international teams are empathy, understanding and cultural sensitivity. Knowledge of other cultures' ways of thinking and acting is indispensable. You can expand the skills of your workforce in intercultural workshops or training courses. Knowledge about the different values of the countries and cultures of this world is imparted and questions about how to deal constructively with cultural differences are clarified.

If your workforce has or acquires a high level of intercultural competence, the integration of employees with a migration background can be more successful and sustainable.

You are welcome to use our various events and offers to develop or expand your intercultural competence or contact us. We will be happy to name intercultural experts for individual training courses.

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If German is your company language, it is particularly advisable to support your international specialists in learning German. Recognizing communication barriers for employees with German as a second language is very important. These can be formal texts, for example, which require a lot of background knowledge, or informal conversations with rapid changes of subject, unclear pronunciation or dialect.

If you remove these hurdles in a targeted manner, your foreign employees can familiarize themselves more quickly, the quality of work is ensured and fluctuation can be reduced.

Information on this topic can be obtained from the "Fachstelle Berufsbezogenes Deutsch" or the "Netzwerk Unternehmen integrieren Flüchtlinge