I’ve been helping multinational teams for more than two decades. Here’s how:
Explain Culture
I explain deeper-lying cultural differences between Germany and the United States:
UC
You’re on UC right now. Currently ten topics, forty-seven subtopics, a thousand examples. With more analysis coming.
Topic Talks
You and your colleagues will read our analysis here on UC. I’ll then take you deeper. Topic for topic. Per video call.
Q&A Sessions
You and your colleagues send me your questions. I’ll group them, then prepare my responses. We’ll discuss per video call.
Improve Collaboration
I help improve collaboration within teams by guiding them along these Three Steps:
Step 1 – Learn
The first step is to learn about cultural differences. About how we think and how we work. Learning leads to discussing.
Step 2 – Discuss
The second step is to discuss the influence of those differences on your collaboration. Discussing leads to applying.
Step 3 – Apply
The third step is to apply what you have learned and discussed to your work. Applying leads to better collaboration.
Solve Problems
I help solve complex collaboration problems in and between multinational organisations:
Interviews
I’ll interview your key people. As a neutral, outside, unbiased party. Whose mandate is not to address the substance of their work. But instead to focus exclusively on solving complex problems within and between multinational teams.
In the interviews I listen for three things: the problems, their impact on the bottom-line, what the contributing factors could be. The focus is not on cultural differences, but instead on problem-solving.
Analysis
In the interviews I ask the important questions, listen carefully, and take accurate notes. I reserve the right to conduct follow-up interviews. Then it’s all about analysis, which is the basis for my recommendations.
I then present my results to you. We will discuss them in-depth. Including if and where I should begin. With an initial action. We’ll then proceed step-by-step. Assessing. Tweaking. Continuing or not. Always with an eye on the impact on your bottom-line.
Actions
Actions is a generic term. Here it means things done in order to solve problems in and between multinational teams.
The actions can take many forms: workshops, structured discussions, coaching, web-based exercises.
Actions are situational. Based on context, people, problems. The pieces, however, are always the same: bring the right people together, guide them a solution.
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