Cross-Cultural Collaboration

Cross-Cultural Collaboration – the capabilities

Cross-cultural collaboration is a key factor in making your internationalization strategy a success. The rapidly increasing globalization and digitalization offers new opportunities of cooperation around the globe. People from different cultures blend knowledge, experiences and ideas into common projects and develop together innovative products, technologies and services in order to ensure new competitive advantage and unique selling propositions to their organizations.

The challenge

The biggest challenge for executives, managers, team heads and project leaders is steering cross-cultural cooperation. If they succeed to use the potential of cultural diversity of their people and to align them with common objectives, intercultural cooperation is much more innovative, creative and successful than projects with people from a similar cultural background. However, if this cooperation is badly managed, cultural differences turn easily into serious conflicts and may lead to frustration and failure.

Our consulting services

We start to analyze the objectives of intercultural cooperation in your company and develop together with you strategies and solutions on how to achieve them. We will create tailor-made programs to make your cooperation more successful, e.g.

Cross-cultural Organisation Development Consulting which takes into consideration the need to adjust processes and tools to cultural norms and values like e.g. expected degree of participation, leadership style or feedback processes
Cross-cultural training courses to build up knowledge and intercultural competence of managers and staff
Workshops with focus on intercultural and virtual communication
Teambuilding workshops to create a common strategy for successful cooperation and a strong sense of belonging to the team
Cross-cultural coaching for managers, team heads and project leaders where we support them to cope successfully with their personal challenges

Together with our partners from around the world we cover the most important cultures in Europe, Asia, North America and Latin America.

Articles

H.-Jörg Keller – Michael Thiel – Klaus Wittkuhn
International Qualification

An overview about steps and measures for a successful cross-cultural qualification strategy

Uli Schwämmle und Michael Thiel
Kultur als Steuerungsgrösse für Manager und Management (in German)

A critical reflection based on practical experiences about ineffective cross-cultural qualification measures and options how to create the link between cross-cultural developemnt and the developement of the business and the organisation.