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Working in America - a Guide for Foreigners
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Working in America - a Guide for Foreigners

Tips and hidden rules explained, especially for consultants
Created byHarry Webb
Last updated 8/2024
English

What you'll learn

  • Understand the challenges and complexities for a foreign-born person working in corporate America, either in person or remotely.
  • Understand the hidden rules of working in America
  • Absorb the multiple tips and lessons learnt by a foreigner working in America for 30 years
  • Practice and acquire the skills needed to be productive and successful, working in the USA
  • Learn how to understand the project you work on, and how to deliver optimally, day to day.

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Course content

5 sections • 8 lectures • 1h 18m total length

  • Introduction3:25

    The challenges of working in America. Hidden rules are explained, starting with the first one: You are expected to just know things. 

  • How to talk to Americans4:37

    How to talk to Americans. First, introducing yourself, in person and remotely.

    Then, some particular social aspects of Americans that you should know about:

    things like privacy, patriotism, personal space.

    Finally, some useful phrases and how to practice them.

Requirements

  • English proficiency, desire or opportunity to work in America (in person and/or remotely)

Description

This course is designed to help foreign-born (especially Indian) IT consultants be successful in the US corporate world.

To a foreign-born person, America can be a contradictory place to work. On the one hand, it is a friendly, casual and easy environment. But it is also ruthless and high-demanding, with no sympathy for the weak.

It is a complex and subtle working culture that is almost impossible for a new arrival to figure out. The unwritten rules can take a lifetime to understand.

Based on working with hundreds of Indian consultants over a 30-year period, it combines elements of emotional intelligence and consulting skills and is designed to lift the veil and explain these hidden rules. It provides a practical step-by-step framework, following the phases of a typical IT project.

The course contains an introduction, followed by five phases:

1. Preparation, that is understanding the basics of working here.

2. Meeting a client for the first time: just how important it is and exactly how to make a good first impression, remotely or in person.

3. Getting the lay of the land: how to best get an understanding of the technical and other aspects of your job: to find out what the priorities are and what’s really needed.

4. Requirements gathering: the best way to get the detailed information and requirements you need for your particular job.

5. Delivery: how to become a high-performing team member.

Who this course is for:

  • Foreigners coming to work in corporate America, either in person or remotely.
  • Targeted specifically at IT consultants, but relevant for any worker.

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