What We Do :: Get Results Across World Cultures

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Global Context can help you demystify the world's business cultures–and get incredible results.

By leveraging a broad range of international experiences, Global Context provides a suite of services which go way beyond customary approaches to understanding cultural differences.

Our consulting and training programs are based on proven methods that apply to everyday cross-cultural situations: business communications, negotiations, customer interactions, meetings, strategic selling, program management, leadership, teamwork and all other skills needed to succeed across cultures.

Our primary objective is to provide tools for improving your organization's effectiveness.

Keynotes, Speeches & Presentations

Consulting & Coaching

Seminars & Workshops

In today's globalized economy, cross-cultural topics are ideal for most any corporate event.

Entertaining. Enlightening. Energetic.
What more could you ask for?

All presentations can be adapted to the theme of your conference, offsite meeting, or other corporate function. Some of our most popular discussions include:

◦ "Never Ask The Dutch To Collaborate", and Other Common Cultural Mistakes
◦ What Works Here Doesn't There
◦ Globalization Within Our Own Walls
◦ Coping with Cultural Diversity
◦ If What Convinces Is Conviction Why Aren't They Convinced?
◦ The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Everything But The Truth - A Global Perspective
◦ American Humor - Leave Home Without It
◦ Marketing Blunders on a Global Scale - And How to Avoid Them
◦ "They're So Difficult" And Other Myths About Doing Business Across Cultures
◦ "Close Encounters of The Cross Cultural Kind"
◦ Golf, Drinking, and Saunas - The Biggest Mistake You Didn't Know You Made

We can also modify many of our more comprehensive training program topics to a speech/presentation length, and can serve as the perfect introduction to further intended training.

Here's some feedback we've received on recent presentations:

"Born to do this...
...the talk was relevant, the delivery entertaining, and you charmed a tough crowd. Well done, sir.
"A wonderful presentation...
...about communicating across different cultures during our sales conference. It was honestly, the best presentation I have ever listened to. It was educational as well as entertaining - it hit the spot"
"Bang on...
...Interesting topic, entertaining approach, and an inspiring persona. I could've listened to his cultural anecdotes for hours!"

In-depth coaching to all levels of management and their teams, across all corporate functions.

If your organization has any multi-cultural teams or international relationships, we have something to offer.

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> The CEO who alienated his entire engineering team when he apologized to a customer.
> The program manager who's struggling with getting information from the development team in Asia.
> The vice president of marketing who thinks the meeting went great in Germany, but whose European sales manager thinks it was a disaster.

Let us advise you and your team when cultural differences lead to realtime problems. You'll improve your most important international relations by learning how world cultures effect verbal and non-verbal communications, follow through, commitments, relationship priorities, and what constitutes an 'agreement'.

Here's a few examples:

Internal Multicultural Teams
Integrating M & A Corporate Cultures
Managing Remote Resources
Cross-Cultural Leadership
Critical Incident Analysis

Global Context offers a wide variety of seminars and workshop programs:

> By operational group (sales, operations, customer service, engineering, applications support, human resources, etc.)
> By geography (country, region, etc.)
> By skill set ( negotiations, leadership, customer relations, emails, presentations, etc.)

Training activities are conducted in a hands-on atmosphere, using case studies, role plays, simulations and engaging discussions. All events are interactive and can be delivered to groups of various sizes, located anywhere in the world.

Participants receive a "toolkit" for analyzing and coping with cultural differences. Length of our workshops vary from one day to one week, depending on your arange of interests and needs.

And to meet the needs of those with limited time and availability, Global Context offers a variety of seminars which can be conducted in a half day, or series of half days. Seminars can include any of the topics or agenda items mentioned on this website, per your requirements.

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