Tools for Cross-cultural Success
If this is you
- You manage or work with colleagues from different national, corporate or functional cultures.
- You recognise that cultural differences can lead to different behaviours and assumptions at work and that these can sometimes cause misunderstandings or delay.
- You want to understand and respect cultural differences but still need to get things done effectively.
- You don't have time for your team members to work it out through long trial and error.
- You really want to do something practical to get the best from working with your colleagues in different cultures.
Then you need this program
Our experience shows that significant business time, energy and effort is wasted through misunderstandings and miscommunication caused by failure to understand and resolve the differences between national, corporate and functional cultures.
Tools for Cross-cultural Success is a unique workshop developed by Global Integration, where we share our expertise gained from working with many of the world's most successful international organizations. It is based around the unique "culture abacus" tool, enabling participants to accurately diagnose the cultures they are working with and design ways to enjoy, benefit from and reconcile the cultural differences we are working with. It then focuses on applying the learning in some typical common business situations.
Three major benefits from attending the workshop are:
- Improved cross-cultural meetings, decisions and implementation of actions
- Increased ability to communicate and work effectively with colleagues from other national, functional and company cultures
- Reduction in cross-cultural misunderstandings and subsequent costs and delay
Read more about the business benefits that companies and individuals get from using our training.
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What will the program help me do?
The workshop will be particularly beneficial for managers directly managing cross cultural teams or project groups, people who regularly travel to other countries on business, international team members or those with a boss or subordinate from another culture.
Introducing the Cross-cultural Abacus® tool:
The workshop will answer the following questions:
- How can we build good working relationships across cultures?
- How can I avoid offending people from a different culture?
- When I travel abroad, should I adapt to "their" culture? If so, how far?
- Why do different nationalities seem to behave differently in meetings?
- Is cultural stereotyping or cultural generalization harmful, or helpful?
- How can I get different cultures to work to a common deadline?
- Why do some cultures always seem to want to rush in to things?
- Why do some nationalities seem to take forever to agree anything?
- Would we be more effective, or less, if our team were all the same nationality?
- How can we ensure that the needs and views of each country are considered, without adding weeks to each project?
- Why do I sometimes get the answer "Yes", when they really mean "No"?
- How can I best influence someone from another culture?
- How can we improve the effectiveness of our business as we face increasing "global" challenges, which require international co-operation?
- When is it not "culture" and when is culture used as an excuse?
Read what participants say about our training.
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