The
Culture Clash Workshop
What
challenges does this workshop address?
- Ethnocentrism:
Your people don’t understand or deal effectively with
counterparts in other cultures
- Cultural
clashes: global teams suffer from clashing values, in-fighting,
or lack of alignment
- Silo
thinking: Walls between national offices or departments
block information or best practices from flowing freely
- Ambiguity:
Cross-cultural managers don’t know how to walk the
fine line of respecting local customs and still getting
the job done in other cultures
- Misunderstandings:
People don’t speak the same language; market opportunities
and customers are lost in translation
What
does the workshop do?
- It
prepares leaders to parachute into any culture and get the
job done while respecting local customs
- It
trains managers to decode any national or organizational
culture and avoid costly mistakes when managing across borders
- It
builds and aligns global high-performance teams where each
member contributes to success
- It
helps an organization develop its global leadership asset
and build a truly global culture
Who
is the workshop for?
- Global
executives in industry, nonprofits and government who want
to seize global opportunities
- Multinational
managers, emerging leaders and international entrepreneurs
- Cross-functional
or cross-cultural departments facing a business challenge
- Diverse
project / sales / cross-functional teams performing below
expectations
- Diverse
boards of directors who want to increase their team effectiveness
or alignment
- Medium
enterprises that need to become global players
