Overview
Communication, understanding, and management are the core of individual and corporate services.
Cross-Cultural Communication/Understanding workshops increase employees' awareness and understanding of how culture influences...
- the process of team building
- the quality of company products
- the quantity of production
- the cost of absenteeism
- the cost of delayed decision-making processes
- the value of time lost from misunderstandings - the lack of communication
Communication, understanding, and management are the core of individual and corporate services.
This pyramid demonstrates a synopsis of the dynamic synergistic process of moving individuals from low self-awareness to high self-awareness and understanding of self in comparison to others; learning to appreciate self and others' similarities and differences, developing a higher self-esteem; thus, stimulating motivations, and enhancing performance that builds teams, and improves productivity and profit of company. In summary, the Pyramid outlines the transformation of employees' understanding of personal values leading to sensitivity to team members, acceptance and responsibility for self and improved communication skills; embracing motivation to improve performance and empowerment to contribute to the productivity and profit of their company.
The Cross-Cultural Communication/Understanding workshops as well as the Diversity Workshop are designed to help individuals recognize their own cultural values and how they are perceived by others. They learn different cultural values, norms, behaviors that empower them to understand and apply their understandings to their working environment. The workshops bring the perspective of cultural values to weigh heavily on the understanding of behavior patterns of employees in the workplace by using systematic processes that are result-oriented.
The management level workshops are designed to empower managers to do business and work with global leaders, and when necessary to relocate and function in their host country. Cross-Cultural Communication/Understanding offers workshops and coaching on cross-cultural communication, primarily focusing on Japan, Korea, Germany, and Mexico. Cross-Cultural Communication/Understanding provides cross-cultural training and coaching for excellence in leadership, multicultural team-building, executive coaching and relocation, if necessary, for productive performance.
The workshops provide a practical guide to communicating, understanding, and managing locally and globally.
When two or more people interact, a culture clash may occur. No two people have the same internal and external world views. Therefore, one crosses culture daily. It is this deep, unconscious, unawareness that creates conflicts and misunderstandings. Being aware of potential misunderstandings is the first step of identifying differences that may cause problems.
We live in a global village. What happens when culture is not understood? Globalization has created the need for the global marketplace which has created the need for a GLOBAL CORPORATE CULTURE with all of its demands to balance local and global needs - people, resources, strategies, operations, and especially CONTINUOUS LEARNING.
Assessing Client's Needs
To assess is to determine the significance of certain issues such as miscommunication, lack of motivation, team building, and sensitivity to one another in the workplace that impact overall performance, productivity, and profit. Often, individuals are not aware of their own cultural values and that of their co-workers; thus, cultural collisions happen and low morale develops.
Identifying the Challenges/Opportunities
Time management studies indicate that critical business time and manpower are wasted because of cultural misunderstandings between levels of global corporate culture. The cost of prevention is less than a cultural collision. Can you afford not to give employees the time to develop cross-cultural communication skills? It may be your best investment in the 21st century. As our world becomes increasingly interconnected, people need to develop greater cultural diversity skills. In fact, when two or more people interact, a culture clash may occur. Times have changed. It is critical to learn...
Providing Solutions
The Cross-Cultural Communication/Understanding workshops are designed to help employees recognize their own cultural values and how they are perceived by others as well as learn different cultural values, norms, behaviors that empower them to understand and apply their understandings to their working environment. Interactive processes provide greater experiential learning impact to change cultural behavior: bicultural simulation, value auction, value charts, cultural dialogues, critical incidents, pictographs, analyses, cognitive, behavior modification.