Business Partnership and International Development Successful Global Project Discover and spark your Intercultural Quotient Discover and compare your Business Culture Profile Develop cross-cultural effectiveness and global awereness

NEW BUSINESS CULTURE PROFILES

To international workers, on assignment or career planning Working in international field, expecting to, or dreaming of a career? Discover personal assets and intercultural potential. Get ranked on all 50 skills and behaviors required for cross-cultural effectiveness. With IQ diagnosis and BCP test, zero in on personal strengths and weaknesses, gain or reinforce appropriate capabilities and attitudes.

To global entrepreneurs, business executives and project leaders Dealing with a foreign partner, executing a global project, planning or thinking about one? Discover how to achieve global project results, through appropriate cross-cultural effectiveness objectives within enterprise system. Get management system optimized, particularly on culture sensitive interfaces. Build up team entrepreneurship potential with project personnel able to cope with partner's and client's other culture context.

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What is your IQ (Intercultural Quotient)?
What is your BCP (Business Culture Profile)?

Market and economy globalization, as well as world-wide priorities to fight hunger and poverty, to induce sustainable development in poorest countries, create new opportunities and motives, for organizations here (business, institution and NGO), ...

• to get involved in international operations and activities,
• to initiate business or cooperation relations with foreign partners,
• to mix with other cultural environments.

Managerial tasks, mainly those related to human factor (negotiation, partnership building, contracting process, marketing, training, ...) already demand sharp skills in home environment. The challenge turns so unpredictable and perilous in unknown foreign cultural and socio-economic environment.

Over and above business insight and innovation capability, talent for cross-cultural effectiveness is a key factor for success on any global and international project.

Only one out of five persons experiences full success abroad. More than half of projects fail due to misunderstanding problems between individuals and lack of mutual respect. Good grasp of partnership skills and cross-cultural abilities is prerequisite to achieve project results.

Our mission is to assist individuals (entrepreneur, executive, staff member, professional, other person) and organizations (enterprise, institution, NGO, ...) - already or potentially - involved on a project, in building up, through their personal and entrepreneurial IQ, all partnership and cross-cultural capabilities required for project success.

First, through self-knowledge

Better self-knowledge and definition of learning needs result from two tests.

Intercultural Quotient (IQ) - human and interpersonal relation

Indicative measure of personal assets and intercultural potential, assessment of knowledge, skill and behavior resources available for efficient communications in a different cultural environment and fruitful personal engagement in global project. After thorough evaluation of strenghts and weaknesses, IQ diagnosis opens up on correcting measures for cross-cultural effectiveness in given cultural environment : new skills and behaviors to be contracted, actual skills and behaviors to be reinforced.

Business Culture Profile (BCP) - professional and business relation

Indicative pattern of business culture profile advocated by enterprise executive or director. Profile portrayed through five cultural lenses : individual self-reliance, power distance, control, gender values, managerial approach. When correlated to reference patterns, such as native country or partner's country business profiles, personal portrait gives a measure of cultural gap between two given culture environments, pinpoints facilitating and hindering factors in communications with global partners.

Have a try at IQ mini-test or BCP mini-test. It is free. Better!... Ask for information and take complete IQ and BCP tests.

Self-Knowledge Page

IQ Test Page

BCP Test Page

Then, understand your enterprise system

Management system objectives, such as enterprise cross-cultural effectiveness and high entrepreneurial IQ of managerial team, prove to be essential for business results: the product, goods or services, is to break through a foreign market.

Specific system interfaces are strongly connected to partnerial and cultural relationship; these are located at the border of pilot system, market and environment, shaping up entrepreneurial IQ.

Emergence of cross-cultural effectiveness, in business operations or any global activity, requires that the enterprise management system be properly configured and an adjusted plan of action be set up.

Enterprise System Page

With interactive approach

Preference for interactive and participative training process, combined with capacity building of project leaders and personnel, through various activities :

• evaluation of enterprise potential and personnel skilfulness;
• determination of learning requirements and design of training modules,
  • both on global project management and cultural relationship,
  • general and specific training - region, country and partner;
• delivery of training sessions with appropriate methodology;
• post-training capacity building and follow-up assistance, with necessary adjustments;
• support to results-based evaluation process.

Approach Page

And training modules

Training is aimed at mastering abilities to

• succeed personally and professionally in global project;
• plan and conduct a sound partnerial business relation;
• live and work efficiently in destination country;
• determine project results with respect to partnership and culture frameworks;
• define business mission terms of reference (TOR).

Check out Training Modules page for available modules and those under construction.

Country Guides are now available as tools for pre-departure training and on-arrival integration. Send email for information.

Training Modules Page

And handy websites

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