Berlitz Cultural Business Seminars — Empower executives with global competence

Create more effective international business leaders
Berlitz Cultural Business Seminars address a full range of skills and perspectives that support an executive’s ability to lead effectively in an intercultural environment. Led by world-class consultants, all seminars are offered in country-specific versions.

Attendees receive the Berlitz Mobility Navigator, which provides up to the minute analysis and insight around a wide range of global business and cultural topics designed to improve your global competitive advantage. Also included is the Cultural Orientations Indicator® (COI) a validated assessment tool based upon extensive international and trans-cultural training experiences as well as anthropological research. The COI provides a personal cultural profile for each participant and statistics can be provided on an individual or aggregate basis.

Seminar topics include:

• Intercultural Management Skills addresses how a country’s cultural values impact decision making, problem solving, project management, and work delegation
• Global Team Building identifies critical issues and develops strategies to improve performance and communication
• Global Perspectives examines how a country’s history, government, social structure, geography and religion impact behavior, values and attitudes
• Virtual Communication fosters understanding and trust among leaders and team members who rely primarily on teleconferences, emails and webinars to communicate
• Presentation Skills addresses culturally specific methods to help presenters inform, persuade or motivate more effectively
• Culturally Competent Healthcare helps improve communication to support better clinical outcomes in multicultural healthcare environments

Why choose Berlitz?

The Berlitz Cultural Consulting approach addresses three components that impact a global assignee’s effectiveness when conducting international business: Corporate Culture, National Culture and the Individual Perspective. Our programs develop culturally competent leaders through the use of effective strategies to navigate the interplay between these components. Equipped with globally dynamic skills and cross-cultural insight, assignees can focus on realizing a company’s international goals as soon as they arrive in their new destination.

More reasons to choose Berlitz:

• Berlitz is the world’s premier provider of language training and cultural consulting services, with more than 500 Berlitz Training Centers in 70 countries
• Berlitz trainers are world-class authorities equipped with up-to-date research and leading edge content
• Berlitz has helped the world communicate through leadership and innovation in language and cultural services for more than 130 years
• Berlitz offers preferred rates via a service agreement
• Through our partnership with Renton Technical College, our courses may now be eligible for your company's tuition assistance program