Cross-Culture

As your organisation becomes increasingly international, there are more demands on you. It is not easy to get your message across and convince people with the same background – but the challenge is greater when they have different values and beliefs, organise their world in different ways, and communicate and listen differently.

The Lewis Model of Culture (click on graphic below or click here for a multimedia demonstration) is the most practical theoretical approach to classifying cultures, and the easiest to apply to your work:

You may need to:

get your sales team to implement a new strategy (download article, PDF, 208k)
recruit the right people for the right tasks (see this article for advice)
convince your US parent company to modify their approach
speed up project work outsourced to India
sell your concept to the Japanese

With us you will find out your own Personal Cultural Profile, get an experiential introduction to the model and learn how to apply it to communication, presentation, negotiation, decision-making, leadership, managerial effectiveness and working in/leading teams.

Your increased self-knowledge and improved understanding of other cultural types will lead you to act in ways which will improve your professional results.

We have expanded Richard Lewis Communications' presence on LinkedIn to include a wider range of services including: Cross-Culture, Presentation Skills, Riversdown House, Negotiation Skills, Meeting Skills, and Academic /...

10/01/2012

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Facebook

Riversdown House, our residential centre for intensive English training, has recently started its own Facebook page. The URL is

07/11/2011

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Bulgarian proverb

It is good to have friends, even in hell.

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Leaders

Leaders are like eagles; they don't flock, you find them one at a time.

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Our award winning e-learning site is relaunched with over 150 new features and enhancements

Based on the Lewis Model of Culture, the new 'integrated' site features dramatic improvements in navigation, as well as a huge number of new features, both for end-users and trainers. As a bonus, the assessments are now available in German and Japanese, with more languages to follow!