How can you quickly develop the skills necessary to lead your global team, manage your global project or prepare for expansion to emerging markets, without leaving your desk?

The Cultural Detective team presents a two-part series of Facilitated Online Learning Sessions that will provide you with the keys to a proven, industry-changing and industry-leading toolset for developing your individual and organizational global competence, and ultimately succeeding where "culture conflicts" would have caused failed ventures.

• Learn how to build trust in your global relationships.
• Develop highly productive global teams.
• Complete projects on time and under budget.
• Determine how to best enter and succeed in your targeted international markets.
• Know how to deliver superior client service, globally.
• Get the most from your international assignees by equipping them with the skills necessary to excel in any culture.

Sessions will be held Wednesday and Friday, February 27 and March 1, 2013! Click here for more information or to reserve your spot. Seats are limited.

Join us for an online workshop leveraging the unique LGBT training tools from industry experts Cultural Detective and KMA. The workshop will be led by LGBT subject matter expert, Rita Wuebbler. 

Key Takeaways:

• Learn LGBT shared values and beliefs which motivate behavior and important co-culture distinctions
• Develop a shared language and strategy for discussing differences in the workplace and promoting inclusion
• Identify workplace practices to support LGBT colleagues
• Experience a key process for effectively navigating cross cultural conflict with specific emphasis on LGBT culture

Nothing reflects popular wisdom with as much precision as do proverbs and sayings. Proverbs are tools that we come by naturally and that we inherit through oral tradition. They are a reflection of ourselves and our often unconscious cultural patterns. They can also serve as a key step in our own path towards cultural intelligence.

Cultural intelligence is defined by Thomas & Inkson as the capability to deal effectively with people from different cultural backgrounds. It is a multifaceted competency consisting of cultural knowledge, the practice of mindfulness, and a repertoire of behavioral skills...

The story we published recently about cultural appropriation reminded me of one of my favorite incidents in our series. It resides in the  Cultural Detective Global Business Ethics package, and involves a corporate newsletter containing photos submitted by the office in India. One photo, taken at a temple, shows a swastika.

Outraged, an anonymous writer emails the newsletter editor to complain about a lack of cultural sensitivity and a lack of commitment to diversity and inclusion. The newsletter editor is crestfallen; the comment saps his energy. It is exactly his commitment to inclusion and diversity that has motivated him to include posts from offices worldwide! How much harder can he try? ...

You've already told us Cultural Detective is fabulous. That it's helped your team achieve its deliverables. That it's rocketed your performance to new levels. That's why we are very excited to be able to offer you the Cultural Detective product line as an integrated, online system rather than as stand-alone packages! And, better yet, it's designed as a personal coach, encouraging you and your team members to track your goals, summarize and apply your learning, and upload, debrief and share with a facilitator, team lead or each other your daily life experiences (and make accurate meaning from them).

We are excited to announce our official launch. Consider entering to win a free subscription for you or your team! Click here to view the launch videos on YouTube, with closed captioning for the hearing impaired.

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Our world is swimming in information, so much so that we often drown in it and find it difficult to make sense of. That's why infographics play such a valuable role. Recently I've come across two different sets that I thought Cultural Detectives might be interested in seeing and using (or make your own for your own purposes).

Borrowing heavily from a concept by Danish designer Peter Orntoft, the  Millward Brown Agency designed the two infographics below that put data in context. Interesting, no? More memorable than otherwise? ...