Executives and Leaders

Today's business demands the ability to deal constructively with people from different cultures, nations and backgrounds.

Whether you:

• Have responsibility for a global team
• Need to work closely with senior colleagues across the world
• Run production operations in foreign countries
• Are a party in an international joint venture
• Are dealing with a new government in a country in which your company has made a major investment

you will, no doubt, have encountered people from different cultures with whom you had to interact, co-operate positively, negotiate, and reach real agreement.

How often have you felt, either at the time or later, that misunderstandings got in the way, or that the level of communication was inadequate for the teamwork required to get the job done properly?

Dealing with an unfamiliar culture, with diverse behaviour, values and attitudes, calls for an essential new skill set.

To be fully prepared to deal with people from any culture, at any time, anywhere in the world, and enable them to co-operate and work together more closely, whilst harnessing the benefits available from the rich variety of new cultures.

Our coaching is responsive and emergent, in the sense that the start point is the situation faced by the individual client. Nevertheless, we can identify a number of key issues:

• Deeper awareness of cross cultural issues in general
• Raising awareness of one's own national cultural traits
• Raising awareness of the 'host's' national cultural traits
• Re-connecting with one's own personal values
• Revisiting personal assumptions based on national cultural values
• Overcoming blockages and narrow points of view in respect of other nationalities
• Encouraging respect for the views, values and attitudes of one's self as well as others
• Setting goals and parameters with the client
• Helping to plan/facilitate the internal implementation of crosscultural awareness programmes and the development of crosscultural teams