Culture beats strategy. Always.
For many business leaders, cultural awareness and understanding is considered a soft skill that can be taken lightly compared to hard skills like market research, negotiation strategies, and business development skills. But a leader's ability to successfully do any of these tasks in a multicultural context quickly becomes a bottom-line issue when dealing with real people in real situations.
You may be a leader of cross-cultural teams, an expatriate manager responsible for post-merger integration, or a global purchaser. You regularly interact with people of different cultural backgrounds - employees, consultants, sales managers, world-wide specialists, suppliers, customers, or joint venture partners.The number one predictor of your success in this borderless world is not your IQ, not your CV, and not even your expertise.
It is your Cultural Intelligence (CQ™) - your INDIVIDUAL capacity to be and remain effective in a variety of cultural contexts, and an powerful key to developing of a global mindset.
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We help you develop your CQ for better performance in connection with
- Managing cross-border ventures
- Managing a foreign subsidiary or a dealership abroad
- Integration processes with M&A
- Managing cultural diversity at a workplace
We provide education and training of expartiate managers with cross-border relocation
And the only validated CQ Assessments™
Managing abroad
Assessing culture
National vs. Corporate
Reading cultural patterns
CQ Recruitment
CQ Leadership
CQ Assessments™
Mergers&Acquisitions
How culture matters in M&A
M&A: hidden costs
Cultural Due Diligence
Appropriate integration strategies
Integrating leadership
CQ Expat
Your CQ profile and cultural adjustment
Awareness: your cultural patterns in action
Your CQ plan for best performance
Expat skills training
CQ for your family
CQ Coaching
Starting point: your CQ profile
CQ Drive
CQ Knowledge
CQ Strategy
CQ Action
CQ coaching package
5 structured sessions
Performance-based
Can be supplemented by
Skills training
CQ educaton
Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.
Edward Hall
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