Itim seminars and consultancy are designed to increase the effectiveness of anyone dealing with people from different cultural backgrounds. Increasing internationalisation has led to an appreciation that cultural differences are a key factor in getting things done in business. Working in France, Japan or the USA, for example, requires totally different styles of managing and co-operating.
Our approach is based on extensive research into national values and practices worldwide, at the core of which lies the work of Professor Geert Hofstede . He has developed a five-dimensional model which explains cultural differences in a unique and powerful manner.
We can equip you with useful tools that will make you more effective in your day-to-day work and will help you to translate complex international strategies into practical consequences for successful international management. Our carefully selected material helps us achieve this in a very time and cost-effective way.
We offer dedicated client programmes on different topics, in different settings and varying in duration.
To give you some ideas, our in-company courses can focus on:
- intercultural communications
- intercultural management
- intercultural negotiation
- international teambuilding
- global marketing
- chairing an international meeting
Besides these dedicated client programmes we also offer basic training in intercultural management. These courses run several times a year at different places throughout the world. See our calendar for dates and locations. Using exercises, case studies and highly realistic international business games, these basic courses give an overview of the model and equips the participants with the skills they will need when working in intercultural situations.
Read on for more information on our e-learning programme “Insight on global diversity”