Workshops

Innovation from Cross-Cultural Teamwork
Leadership and Cultural Agility
Gender Cooperation
Enabling Change Through Cultural Transformation
Managing Virtual Teams Effectively
Communicating Successfully with American Business Partners
Communicating Successfully with German Business Partners

Innovation from Cross-Cultural Teamwork

Work more effectively in your cross-cultural teams located around the world. This workshop will describe real-life examples where culture impacts business and will help participants create strategies to foster innovation from cross-cultural teamwork. After this workshop, participants will be able to:

Understand how diverse people think, decide, and communicate.
Improve communication by phone, e-mail, and face-to-face
Use a tool to work in and manage teams around the globe

Leadership and Cultural Agility

Leading international teams requires special skills from leaders. Cultural agility and the ability to ask, listen and communicate across cultures, is critical to today's global business imperative. Seeing the other’s perspective, reacting quickly and nimbly to the situation, as well as clarifying expectations are the key skills global leaders require. This workshop will help you acquire agility and help others to be more agile. Book this workshop and you'll get the results from the teams you want.

After the workshop, leaders will be able to:

Understand their own style and way of communicating
Understand unique dimensions of individual, national and organizational culture and the impact on Cultural Agility.
Manage nimbleness, agility, and pro-activity successfully
Know the impact of different leadership styles on motivating cross cultural teams.
Leveraging culture to lead global teams to success.

Gender Cooperation

Companies today see the value in understanding how diverse cultures work efficiently and effectively, but what about men and women? Since the beginning of time, cooperation between the genders has been confusing, frustrating, wonderful and exciting. Workplaces need diversity in their teams in order to meet the market needs. Women-owned businesses start-up at a 4% higher rate than Men-owned and women make up the majority of the buying power. This workshop will ensure your organization gets to the root cause of why there might be a lack of diversity, particularly at the top, and helps individuals create strategies to recruit, retain, and promote women and men equally. Work-life balance and specific best practices in communicating with men and women will be shared. After this workshop, participants will be able to:

Articulate the economic benefit having more women in executive positions.
Cite current research, statistics and studies on the way our brains are hard-wired.
Understand how men and women think, decide, and communicate.
Create strategies to recruit, retain, and promote top talent regardless of gender.
Communicate with women and men, manage teams, and lead diverse projects more successfully.

Enabling Change Through Cultural Transformation

Change happens when a cultural shift in mindset occurs… In this workshop participants will understand the diverse attitudes, values, and viewpoints people hold in your company. How do people make decisions? What do they prioritize or value as tasks? Companies today need to understand the impact of human behavior when doing business globally. Culture, generation, gender, etc, all impact the way a person views the world and how they’ll operate, communicate, and perform in an organization. How will you promote and create cultural transformation in your organization? After this workshop participants will be able to:

Understand how to leverage a diverse workforce globally
Create an inclusive environment which promotes workforce effectiveness
Foster change in the organization which encourages cultural transformation
Hire, retain, and manage diverse employees and manage their perspectives

Managing Virtual Teams Effectively

Even with a plethora of excellent on-line tools, one of the biggest challenges companies still face today is successfully managing virtual teams. How can you get your team to work together effectively? What about time zones, different (cultural) approaches to technology, keeping the team’s attention in a meeting? How can you team-build when folks don’t know each other? What’s their motivation? Attendees in this workshop will learn to:

Help their team cooperate across time-zones and distance
Create incentives for individual team member participation
Develop methods for successful virtual project management
Get tips to ensure your virtual team’s ability to keep on schedule, improve communication, and stay motivated

Communicating Successfully with American Business Partners

Learn how to effectively communicate with business partners from the United States. Understand the way they give feedback, deal with conflict, disagree, share challenges, are motivated to work on a task. The workshop will also deal with how Americans share information, and what expectations they have in presenting ideas, holding meetings or selling products. Concepts which will be covered in the workshop are: formality, humor, thought patterns, convincing someone to do something, the meaning behind words, planning, customer and supplier relationships, and project management.

Communicating Successfully with German Business Partners

Learn how to effectively communicate with business partners from Germany. Understand the way they give feedback, deal with conflict, disagree, share challenges, are motivated to work on a task. The workshop will also deal with how Germans share information, and what expectations they have in presenting ideas, holding meetings or selling products. Concepts which will be covered in the workshop are: formality, humor, thought patterns, convincing someone to do something, the meaning behind words, planning, managing change, customer and supplier relationships, and project management.