cross cultural virtual team communication

INTERNATIONAL TEAMS

Tirian's Cross Cultural Virtual Team Focus:
Tirian has worked with over 30 cultures in more than 15 countries world wide and has successfully helped companies and teams with varied beliefs, background, religions and work ethics.

Many of our programs are designed to help people from differing cultures align their work practices and develop a common language.

Targeted Team Solutions
Let Tirian help you decide what you need with our
3-Step Process

Deliverables

Tirian will work with people from differing cultures to:

align their work practices
develop a common language
create a environment where people can dialogue between cultures to share best practices.
create a shared vision and understanding / team identity

Daleel Petroleum
Helping Muslim Omanis and Chinese work together as an effective team.

Increasing performance in cross cultural teams
Sample Tirian seminars, consulting and simulations that can be combined to achieve the above deliverables.

- Redefining the Team
Helping cross cultural teams create a common identity

- The Reality of Virtual Teams
Simulated experiential learning seminar looking at the challenges of Cross Cultural Virtual Teams.

- Breakthrough Communication
Great communication can only be judged by what is heard, not what is said ...

- Risky Business
Creating a culture for coping with crisis & understanding different responses to risk taking.

- The Creation of Cliques
Dealing with prejudice, empire building and virtual teams

- Conflict Resolution
Positive methods for dealing with conflict

- Sharing Visions
How to develop, and retain, "core" corporate values across cultures

- Unlocking Creativity
A tool for utilizing different talent within cross cultural teams to explore issues from different angles.

THE COMPLETE SOLUTION
All of the above programs can also include our 3-Step Process, pre-preparation, custom design and post-program follow up.
- Verbal interviews, Needs Analysis, questionnaire and/or full Psychometric Evaluation before program
- Personalized coaching or one-on-one sessions.
- Individual and group personality or behavior profiling
- Implementation

Cross Cultural Simulations (D1 Programs)
	On Thin Ice ^TM Understand team dynamics and create a common language to streamline communication between individuals and departments. Also looks at international and virtual teams and teams under high pressure.
	Catch Me if you Dare^TM A cross cultural experience where teams have to deal with and solve Crisis, Issue & Risk Management. (Simulation)

	The Sky is not the Limit ^TM Balancing Competition & Collaboration
	The Corporate Village ^TM Understanding the concept of community. Refining a corporate identity.

Schneider-Electric
35 people from 26 different cultures working together to create a specific action plan & template to guide them as a cross cultural virtual team.

"You really understood our situation and were particularly sensitive to our religious and cultural issues ."
Masoud Maskary Dir HR Daleel Petroleum Oman

"This program really reinforced the importance of respect and diversity on multiple levels. It was fascinating."
Joann Patrick Ezzell.
President and CEO
AT&T Asia Pacific

"Your enthusiasm was infectious and appreciated by all concerned.”
Dr Colin Yarham,
Executive Director.
Health Education and Promotion India

“The program showed us how to work with people with different skills and cultural backgrounds. The group identified these differences and used them to the benefit of the itself to achieve the common goal”
Accenture Manager

Gaia Grant has written many books and published several articles dealing with cross cultural issues. Gaia is the author of The Rhythm of Life & A Patch of Paradise 2 books that examine traditional cultural relationships and family structures throughout the world.