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Collaboration across cultures

Successful intercultural collaboration needs the right environment, communication technologies, and a focus towards the outcome. Inter and intra company collaboration is a challenge – that needs constant attention from all the stakeholders. Setting achievable goals, building formal networks and enabling employees to create informal networks are a must for successful intercultural collaboration.

Cultureresourcecentre’s 'Collaboration Across Cultures' programs are designed to create an environment for succesful collaboration. Our programs focus on actual collaboration that happens between people. People must connect with other people for collaboration to work. For this collaboration between people to happen, they need to understand the work cultures of their colleagues, the relationships, the network, and be driven to work together.

 

Outcomes

  • Break down cultural barriers by finding & emphasising areas of similarity
  • Understand the impact of cultural value orientations on the effectiveness of building relationships and collaboration
  • Ability to interact, work, manage and lead effectively within the organisation
  • Create a collaborative environment that influences outcomes, drive commitment and results from team members and / or colleagues
  • Develop workplace practices communication and collaboration
  • Analyse the effectiveness of current communication technologies (emails, phone, teleconference, and videoconference), and identify any issues in current communication methods
  • Explore the current communication issues that are being directly faced
  • Setting single, achievable goals, building formal networks and enabling employees to create informal networks.

Key topics covered by our action based solutions:

Intercultural fundamentals:

  • Positioning culture
  • Mapping cultural values, orientations & communication preferences
  • Bridging cultural gaps with effective communication
  • Implementing cultural strategies & best practices

Understanding the challenges of cross-cultural collaboration:

  • Impact of cultural value orientation on collaboration
  • Impact of trust on information sharing
  • Intercultural communication

Managing collaboration;

  • Best practices for collaboration
  • Building collaboration networks
  • Decision making in cultural diverse teams
  • Shared objectives and goals
  • Detecting, resolving & managing conflict
  • Use of collaboration tools across cultures

Country Specific Multicultural & Virtual Teams:

  • Ongoing development through self-paced learning - web reference tool for over 60 countries