4.10 Working effectively with Japanese colleagues
Pernille Rudlin was brought up partly in Japan and partly in the UK and also spent four years working in the Tokyo headquarters of Mitsubishi Corporation, the Fortune 100 $105bn Japanese investment and trading conglomerate.
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Pernille Rudlin

She had a variety of roles with Mitsubishi ranging from marketing British consumer goods to Japan to being a key member of a global organisational change initiative, where she focused on the use of information and communication technologies for cross cultural communications.
Most recently she started and headed up a business unit at an internet services company which developed web based research tools and online learning environments.
Pernille is a member of the following organisations:
160 Characters - the UK SMS and mobile messaging association
Association of Japanese Business Studies
DigitalEve UK
The Japan Society
Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry UK
SIETAR (UK)
She has an MBA from INSEAD and is the author of several books and articles on cross cultural communications and business. As well as speaking fluent Japanese she tries her best at French and Mandarin Chinese.
I am running a seminar entitled "Working effectively with Japanese colleagues" in London on June 22nd, at The Commonwealth Club, 18 Northumberland Avenue, London WC2.
Topics include:
- Japanese communication style
- Why Japanese tend to be vague and indirect and how to interpret what they mean
- Why Japanese don't give a lot of feedback
- How to confirm whether you've been understood correctly
- How decisions are made in Japanese organisations
- Why Japanese avoid risk
- How to get your ideas accepted by a Japanese organisation
- How to make meetings with Japanese more effective
- How to build strong working relationships with Japanese
- How to behave appropriately at meals and other social situations
- What to keep in mind if you travel to Japan for business
- What most bothers Japanese about the Europeans they work with
Registration is at 8:30 a.m., Seminar 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., lunch included. For more details on costs and how to pay, please visit www.rudlinconsulting.com

Pernille Rudlin
Rudlin Consulting
Japan Intercultural Consulting European Representative
T: +44 (0) 1273 550 857
M: +44 (0) 7867 806 539
E: pernille@rudlinconsulting.com
W: www.rudlinconsulting.com
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