Cross-cultural Awareness: Awareness programmes are designed to increase sensitivity to the influence of culture on thinking, feeling and behaving in the context of work.
Cultural Business Practices: These programmes focus on business practices in specific cultures. Participants learn about the cultural values and beliefs that drive business and work practices in the target cultures, and practise adapting their behaviour for working effectively with these cultures.
Managing Workforce Diversity: These programmes focus on differences within a workforce that influence employee interactions, motivation and performance. They raise sensitivity to the impact of perceptions, stereotyping and sense-making upon feelings of inclusion or exclusion at work.
Ethical Behaviour Across Cultures: These organisation and culture-specific programmes are designed to support the implementation of an organisation's Ethical Code of Practice in target cultures. These workshops analyse the different perspectives of ethical behaviour in target cultures, and use real case studies to establish shared ethical standards for behaviour.
Women in Global Management: These programmes use the latest research on women in the global workforce, examining differences and similarities in leadership styles between men and women, and identifying organisational barriers to womens' advancement so that strategies for equity in the workplace can be identified.
Expatriation Readiness: These programmes raise expatriate candidates and partners' awareness of the challenges of living and working in another culture. They focus on reducing intercultural stress, facilitating family transitions, psychological adjustment and relationship-building with local staff, so that they create realistic expectations of the demands, as well as the benefits, of expatriate living.
| Global Leadership Competence: Leaders taking on international responsibilities need to broaden their competence for leading, motivating and inspiring multicultural workforces and teams. In these tailored workshops leaders use a battery of assessment tools to identify their strengths, their priority development needs, and their multicultural competence. They use these assessments to develop their intercultural sensitivity and responsiveness.
Cultural Integration Workshops: As organisations acquire, merge or restructure, they need to integrate the new members from other national and corporate cultures quickly. These workshops focus on mapping the cultural dimensions that influence their new relationships, identifying any conflicting patterns and developing a framework for bridging cultural barriers to collaboration.
Cross-cultural Teambuilding: These workshops are designed to increase team learning, sharing and performance across cultures. Members learn to leverage their differences to create an inclusive team culture that supports psychological safety and effective cross-cultural communications.
Multicultural Virtual Teamworking: As more teams work remotely and achieve results through virtualy teamworking, these workshops focus on developing the special skills for working with other cultures in a virtual environment. They enable members to overcome the barriers caused by language, time-zones and lack of face to face contact, so that they can develop 'swift trust'.
Negotiating Across Cultures: These culture-specific workshops are designed to prepare negotiators for negotiating with counterparts from other cultures. They focus on understanding the different cultural approaches to negotiating, and the behaviours that influence the outcome of negotiations in the target cultures.
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