Cross Cultural Training

In association with Barry Tomalin, the world-leading cultural training and communications expert, SIMON & SIMON deliver a variety of international Cross Cultural Training skills courses. With the global trend toward multi-national management structures, companies are becoming increasingly aware that if their global business objectives are to be achieved, a growing number of their employees need to be more familiar with the communication styles and cultures of their clients and colleagues from around the world.  A selection of our current courses are outlined below:

Cultural Awareness

It isn’t enough to learn the business language to optimise business performance. You also need to understand your foreign colleagues and clients’ business expectations and HOW they go about their business. Our cultural awareness seminars are specifically tailored to the requirements of your company and your course participants.

Market Briefings

We show you how to communicate successfully with your foreign colleagues and clients by understanding their system of communication as well as the language they use. We show you the key business differentiators and how to understand your colleagues’ and clients’ motivation and business expectations. Lastly, you identify your own cultural profile and learn how to adapt it to your colleagues and clients, or get them to adapt to you.

Living & Working Abroad

For oversees assignees (short and long term) and inductees into the UK. We teach you the background to the area you are in and the people you will meet. We take you through the key things you will need to know to operate successfully, using our unique 12 step settling-in programme and we prepare you for dealing with the inevitable culture shock and repatriation shock.

Managing Multi-Cultural Teams

Getting international teams to work together isn’t easy, especially in JVs and M&As. This programme provides a structured forum for sharing synergies and difference in business expectations and business procedures and creates networks and processes to resolve problems that are having a negative impact on performance.

Our Approach

.. is simplicity itself.

• You complete a pre-seminar questionnaire so that we can tailor the seminar to your company’s needs.
• We fine-tune the seminar to your delegates’ requirements.
• We don’t lecture, we facilitate discussion. We find out what you do. We compare that with what ‘they’ do and agree on how you and they need to adapt.
• We help you evolve strategies to deal with communication and organisational challenges.
• We follow up with a detailed report on the seminar together with delegates' evaluations of its success.

If you would like to discuss your requirements and to find out more about the full range of Cross Cultural Training available, please complete our  Short Enquiry Form or call SIMON & SIMON on 020 7821 0999. Thank you.

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