Online Cultural Consulting

The web accessed tools included in this program are:

The Berlitz Mobility Navigator:

Through the Six Primary Channels the Berlitz Mobility Navigator delivers timely cultural and business intelligence to enable your company to achieve the following goals:

• Obtain critical market knowledge to conduct business across cultures and geographies
• Recognize behavioral changes to facilitate adjustment to a new country and generate targeted information, comparisons and analysis of cultural gaps with your new country’s national profile
• Scan the world for management and business practices across cultures
• Develop cultural competence to build and manage global alliances, partnerships and value networks
• Enhance cultural understanding and bridge cultural differences

The Cultural Orientations Indicator^®, an assessment tool that provides a personal cultural profile on the basis of the 10 dimensions recognized in the Cultural Orientations Model™. Statistics can be provided on an individual or aggregate basis. The Cultural Orientations Indicator is a validated assessment tool based upon extensive international and trans-cultural training experiences as well as anthropological research.

Cultural Orientations at Work Web Course builds on the COI and guides participants towards understanding one's own culture-based work style and communication preferences, identifying coworkers and counterparts' preferences and having a flexible behavioral repertoire to bridge cultural differences. Based on the Cultural Orientations Model, participants learn the ten dimensions of culture as a framework for understanding cultural differences.

Doing Business in… (Country Series) – Web-course guides participants through a series of informative modules that present material on general cultural and management practices in a specific country. The core objectives are to:

• Grasp the country economy, history, basic facts, culture, maps, useful links, relocation and travel information and business and management practices
• Recognize your own cultural preferences and how they compare to your counterparts from the country of concern
• Understand the local market and how business is conducted within the country
• Navigate management structures, decision-making processes and negotiation strategies
• Adapt business and management skills to work effectively in the country
• Doing Business In …Web-Courses are available for the following countries: U.S.A., India, China, France, Spain, Germany, U.K., Japan, Brazil, Mexico, Korea, Poland, and Taiwan

Why choose Berlitz?

• Berlitz has helped the world communicate through leadership and innovation in language and cultural services for more than 130 years
• 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 offers organizations a flexible range of online and face-to-face language training programs to meet their needs and budgets
• Only Berlitz offers language instruction based on the conversational Berlitz Method
• 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