Departure Time

It started with with Paul, Sarah, Katie and Lindsey, followed by Jillian, Kasey, Craig and Joylynn, continuing with Brian, Alec, and Chris (Paris Bound!), and will soon include Jimmy, Charles, Jerrod and Ryan, the group is on their way home or other various destinations.  Only Alexa and I will be left behind, and that will change soon as Alexa is off to Berlin and I to Amsterdam.  Great experience for all and safe travels to all.

Signing out from German Business & Culture + Global Negotiation 2012.

Dr. E.

More Negotiating & Cultural Presentations

Today is a holiday in Germany so we get a break from our intense week.  It has been a very productive and fun week, and we have definitely earned our day off.  Here are some more photos from the week.

 The Thailand Group after their presentation.  Verena, Chris, Lindsey, Katie, Mikael, Angela

Jimmy Marceletti helps us understand business culture in Chile

 The Chile Group: Jillian, Andre, Dorin, Elena, Craig & Jimmy

The Lebanon Group: Alec, Julian, Kasey, Eduard, Verena & Jerrod

 Verena discusses the business culture in Lebanon

The Portugal Group: Sarah, Julia, Ryan, Kerstin, Laura & Paul

 Teams work together to prepare their cases

 Verena Ballat and Brian Samson Negotiate a deal (a creative one too!)

 Ryan and Dorin try to find common ground

Jerrod and Helena (front) struggle to make the numbers work, while Jimmy and Verena work out a deal.

The Sweden Group: Joylyn, Nataliya, Mustafa, Laura, Verena, and Brain

The Philippines Group: Maggie, Maria, Alexa, Charles, Natalia, & Helena

Game On!

The students have spent the morning in lecture learning about negotiation preparation.  Now they are negotiating case #1 versus a Uni Paderborn student.  So not only are they learning more about negotiation they are having an inter-cultural experience simultaneously.  Ah such fun!  We will be getting back together soon to debrief the case and jump right into case #2.

 Alec and Helena chose an outdoor setting for their bargaining session

 Jerrod and Angela hammer out the details of the deal

Sarah and Elvira are focused on getting the best deal.

German Business & Culture is over, Global Negotiation begins!

We had a wonderful final celebration in Koeln last night just steps away from the famous Koelner Dom (Cologne Cathedral).  Then today we said good bye to Dr. Stacey, Tom, Erica and Jaquelyn and the rest of us boarded IC 2359 and zipped off to Uni Paderborn for Global Negotiation.  Students are spending the night working on their negotiation case and meeting with their presentation teams.  We begin in earnest tomorrow morning at 9am!  Above is the final (almost) group photo with the Koelner Dom in the background. 

Scavenger Hunt has begun.....

The teams were announced and they are off in Koeln and Bonn doing their assigned tasks, hopefully with a high level of creativity!  I worked on my own end of trip project: a collage of pictures from the trip.  Enjoy!

The Absolutely Perfect Rhein!!

We are safely in Koeln (Cologne) now and will have a group dinner soon.  But to catch up.....

We left Paderborn on Wednesday morning and by 2pm we were on the K-D boat heading up the Rhein to Bacharach.  The journey is filled with castle viewing and good times.  We arrived in Bacharach and were geeted by Dirk and Ellen Scherschlicht at the Bacheracher Hof Hotel and they ensured we had a fantastic experience in Bacharach.  Visit them at www.bacharacher-hof.de. 

Wednesday night we had a great dinner made by our hosts that included my Rhein favorite: Sauerbraten!  Thursday we had a wonderful day of visits and hiking and this morning the group selected their own itinerary and some of the choices included biking the Rhein, hiking, visiting Rheinfels ruins (castle) and just relaxing in the beautiful weather.

Words don't do the whole Rhein experience justice so I will let the photos do it! 

Case Competition Follow-Up

We had a wonderful case competition and below is a photo of the winning team and the group photo at our celebration at the Paderborner Brauhaus.

 The Case Competition Group + the Marketing Team from Paderborn.  A great time was had by all at our celebration dinner

The winning team: Joylynn, Chris, Alexa, Jimmy and Angela.  (the final student, Kader, could not make the dinner)