Corporate Training Solutions
Our culturally focused training seminars enhance workplace productivity and increase cross-cultural business skills.
It’s important to know:
• how to build relationships,
• what to expect in meetings,
• how to make effective cross-cultural presentations,
• how to approach a sales call,
• how women professionals can overcome gender barriers
• how to negotiate across cultures,
• how to communicate and present ideas in culturally appropriate ways
• how to cope with the unwritten rules: time orientation, status, incentives, etc. and
• how to live and work effectively in a new culture.
Each of these skills requires cross-cultural training. We offer personalized assistance in partnership with client companies as an extension of their in-house team. AIC seminars provide practical business strategies that can be implemented right away!
Innovative Training Solutions
High-energy, interactive, presentations are designed to help Western companies and individuals develop a globally minded workforce and the effective cross-cultural skills to successfully operate in African commercial environments. By confronting the critical and common challenges that arise when cultures collide in either social or commercial settings and between African and Western executives, these visual presentations intensify both the learning and retention process.
Delivered through modular programs, each unit is designed to increase the effectiveness of Western business leaders and international teams dealing with people of African cultural backgrounds. Presentations can be delivered in 1 - 4 hour briefing sessions or extended into full-day seminars, depending on your needs.
Some topics include:
Recent projects include:
Call or email today for quotes on customized training or consulting services to meet your needs.
• how to build relationships,
• what to expect in meetings,
• how to make effective cross-cultural presentations,
• how to approach a sales call,
• how women professionals can overcome gender barriers
• how to negotiate across cultures,
• how to communicate and present ideas in culturally appropriate ways
• how to cope with the unwritten rules: time orientation, status, incentives, etc. and
• how to live and work effectively in a new culture.
Each of these skills requires cross-cultural training. We offer personalized assistance in partnership with client companies as an extension of their in-house team. AIC seminars provide practical business strategies that can be implemented right away!
Innovative Training Solutions
High-energy, interactive, presentations are designed to help Western companies and individuals develop a globally minded workforce and the effective cross-cultural skills to successfully operate in African commercial environments. By confronting the critical and common challenges that arise when cultures collide in either social or commercial settings and between African and Western executives, these visual presentations intensify both the learning and retention process.
Delivered through modular programs, each unit is designed to increase the effectiveness of Western business leaders and international teams dealing with people of African cultural backgrounds. Presentations can be delivered in 1 - 4 hour briefing sessions or extended into full-day seminars, depending on your needs.
Some topics include:
- Cross-cultural Communications
- Cross-cultural Teambuilding
- Women Expatriates in African Business Environments
- Cross-cultural Negotiations
- Organizational Culture in African Firms
- Etiquette, Relationship-building & Understanding Local Business Practices
- Doing Business Cross-Culturally in Africa (sub-Sahara)
- Corporate Social Responsibility in Africa
Recent projects include:
- materials development and curriculum design for top US Oil companies with existing operations in Africa involving cross-cultural management issues, communication and team building,
- executive coaching for a range of senior US executives relocating to Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Cote d’Ivoire
- team integration project involving the US and West African offices of a major US computer company
- executive coaching for senior US executives operating in East, South and West African business environments in financial services and consumer products
- facilitating cross-cultural competency in management, leadership and communication for US, European and Latin American personnel in a multi-national Oil & Gas company involved in a West African joint venture
- cross-cultural training seminars for business executives and business teams embarking on international assignments
Call or email today for quotes on customized training or consulting services to meet your needs.
