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 Building Global, Virtual and Local Teams
GLOBAL TEAMWORK
With globalization sweeping the world, your organization faces significant new opportunities and challenges. Whether you employ people from other countries or work with them, you must find ways to motivate and connect people from very different cultural backgrounds, experiences and leadership styles.
We have been working with international executives and multicultural teams for close to two decades and have experienced directly what causes them to succeed or fail. We know that most organizations underutilize their global workforce and networks. When properly developed, virtual and global teams contribute significantly to the growth and success of your organization, and to its bottom line. In fact, diverse and global teams are one of the most consistent sources of competitive advantage for any organization.
In the RealChange GlobalTeams® process, we first provide the cultural input and team-building training necessary to secure the development of high-performing virtual and global teams. We also act as management consultants to help our clients develop a shared vision, engage in strategic planning, and make decisions that integrate the perspective of multiple cultures. With the advent of technology-enriched communication and training, we have integrated these innovative tools to our process with proven success.
The GlobalTeams® process simultaneously increases the capacity of global teams to communicate through differences while maintaining their unique characteristics and qualities. These teams come to see themselves as communities of human beings, learning from each other and achieving together. As a result of the GlobalTeams® process, multicultural teams dramatically increase their capacity to deliver outstanding results.
In the GlobalTeams® process we look at teams and their patterns of functioning and productivity through five different lenses:
We look at a multicultural team as:
- an organization in the midst of a strategic evolution from the past to the present to the future
- collection of individuals experiencing human reactions to change
- a group undergoing specific stages of development
- a field where four individual leadership styles and strategies of action interact, with particular outcomes
- a culturally distinct entity made up of various ethnic, national and business cultures
The GlobalTeams® process includes:
- On-site team sessions in North America and Europe
- Off-site team events in North America and Europe
- Outdoor experiential team adventures
- Community-involvement projects
- Remote global team building involving technology-mediated activities
GLOBAL TEAMS PROCESS 1-2 DAY PROGRAM
If working globally with other cultures is a challenge....
This program assists organizations working with diverse or multicultural teams and markets. The challenge is to make the best use of this rich diversity. Companies that understand the potential of global team management in today's market have a definite advantage. The Global Teams process allows a multicultural group to go beyond differences and create a common vision and effective process for working together. It builds the foundations for sustained high performance in diverse, global and virtual teams.
The Global Teams process allows participants to:
- Maximize the differences and common ground between cultures
- Understand the inefficiency of clinging to one's own cultural habits
- Integrate positive traits, perceptual points of view and attributes of other cultures
- Develops the conditions that truly include people and utilize the benefits of diversity
- Know each other on a more human level and enjoy the experience of reciprocal learning
- Learn how to change one's style to support organizational goals
- Co-create new ground rules for working together
- Define a process and a game plan to achieve the team's objectives
"I learned that Salomon can be even much better than it is (more progressive and more supportive at the same time) and I learned how we can do that."
-Bob Soden, CEO-Salomon North America
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