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Our team members have created many products in addition to the Cultural Detective® series that you may find useful to your purposes. On the bottom of this page you will see services offered by some of our partners and collaborators. We trust you find this information helpful.
Communication Highwire: Leveraging the Power of Diverse Communication Styles. Click on the logo or title to order. "Beyond Valuing to LEVERAGING Diversity..." A practical book including 4 models, 37 stories, and 26 reproducible activities grounded in theory for using differences at work, in communities, or at home. Authored by Dianne Hofner Saphiere, Barbara Kappler Mikk, and Basma Ibrahim DeVries. Published by Intercultural Press. US$34.95."
Redundancia: A Foreign Language Simulation. Requires 10 minutes to conduct and about 30 to debrief. Participants experience speaking a language nonfluently: how it affects one's ability to stay focused and connected with the listener, and one's feelings of competence and confidence. Participants also experience listening to second language speakers: their own tendencies to help or to become distracted. Observers note the speaker's nonverbal communication. Extremely powerful. Read reviews of Redundancia. Read customer comments on Redundancia.
US$85.00 for a Starter Kit, including Facilitator Manual and 20 User DiscoveryGuides, all you'll need to get started with 20 participants. Click on the link to order.
US$24.95 for additional sets of 20 DiscoveryGuides. Click on the link to order extra sets for use with more participants.
Shinrai: Building Trusting Relationships with Japanese Colleagues. Click on the logo or title to order. Shinrai is a high quality audio CD and 24-page booklet that helps busy executives build lasting and fruitful business relationships in Japan, and with Japanese colleagues. The approach is a combination of cultural insights and relationship-building phrases. Learn Japanese common sense, which may be vastly different from that which you were raised. Develop comfort with several high-impact phrases in Japanese, not "standard" phrases, but phrases that truly show your sincerity and make a difference. Whether you travel to Japan on business, work via phone and email with Japanese, or live and work in Japan, this CD will improve your productivity and effectiveness in your day to day dealings. US$39.95, with volume discounts available. Read reviews of Shinrai.
Success Strategies, a new book with chapters by Cultural Detective authors Dianne Hofner Saphiere and Kathleen Curran, as well as Warren Bennis, Brian Tracey, and Marjorie Blanchard, contains chapters on both intercultural business effectiveness and diversity. US$19.95. Contact us about volume discounts.
Au Contraire: Figuring Out the French
For anyone involved in interactions with the French, whether in business or government, as a student or armchair devotee of crossing cultures, Au Contraire! is a book that unearths the often invisible cultural forces that govern behavior. Authored by Cultural Detective: France authors Gilles Asselin and Ruth Mastron, published by Intercultural Press. Click on the title for more information or to order.
Business Etiquette 101 – 30 Absolutely, Never Evers For Business, Dining & First Impressions
This handy booklet, authored by Cultural Detective: Generational Harmony co-author Gretchen Neels, focuses on the basics for new professionals, and those who may need a refresher, on what’s acceptable and what’s not in the workplace. Present your absolute best self by following such advice as: Absolutely, never ever show too much skin. If you would wear it to the club, don’t wear it to the office. This includes exposed tummies, arms, legs and of course, cleavage.
Business Etiquette 102 – 30 Certainly, Always Guidelines for Interviewing, Networking & Meetings
More candid and on-target advice to help beginners and veterans alike navigate the unwritten code of corporate protocol and good manners. Guidance is given for the job interviewer/interviewee, the reluctant networker, and the meeting-phobic. Below is an excerpt from the networking section: Certainly, always look to establish a long-term professional relationship. That’s when true networking occurs. Do this through revealing your expertise in your chosen field and consistently presenting your upstanding character. Authored by Cultural Detective: Generational Harmony co-author Gretchen Neels.
Business Know-How Rumänien
A hands-on overview fn Romanian business essentials for German speaking expats working in Romania. City specials cover Bucharest, Timisoara and Sibiu. Authored by Cultural Detective: Romania co-author Rita Booker, published in October 2008. Please click on title for a German description and ordering on amazon.
Diversafari: A Learning Adventure™
Combines global cultural awareness with proven adult learning methods to deliver immediate results for the workplace. A five hour program is divided into five 20-minute and five 40-minute sessions for easy scheduling around work or class. The kit includes an engaging visual map, easy-to-follow facilitator guide, all materials for interactive exercises, and an attractive carrying bag. The materials are re-usable, making this program one of the most cost-effective training tools on the market.
Diversophy
Learning games on over forty cultures, produced by George Simons, a prolific Cultural Detective author. Diversophy complements Cultural Detective®; the latter provides deep insight, the former provides behaviors and dos/don'ts. Click on the title for more information or to order.
Ecotonos: A Simulation on Multicultural Collaboration. A powerful and extremely adaptable simulation, Ecotonos breaks the usual stereotypes and barriers. Participants improve their skills and strategies for multicultural collaboration and teamwork. Ecotonos can be used multiple times with the same people by selecting a new problem and different variables, with each replay offering new and different cross-cultural perspectives. Eight to fifty participants form three groups and create their own cultures. Participants begin to work in their monocultural groups, then mix groups to continue the task multiculturally. The simulation and debriefing require a minimum of two hours. The debriefing includes the highly effective method of process mapping. Ecotonos comes with an instruction manual, cultural name tags, 30 sets of rule cards, three prewritten case studies and three team tasks. The new third edition comes in a hard plastic briefcase for easier transport, and includes: easier debrief instructions to complete the simulation in two hours; explanation of the intercultural theory inherent in the simulation; full instructions for using the various handouts on intercultural collaboraion; expanded sections on adapting Ecotonos to a variety of cultures and situations. Authored by Dianne Hofner Saphiere, published by Intercultural Press. US$225.00. Read a review of Ecotonos. Click here for customer comments. There is also an online Ecotonos facilitators' group; all users are welcome to join and learn.
Reading Between the Signs: Intercultural Communication for Sign Language Interpreters
This groundbreaking book is a recognized classic that has been embraced by both educators and practitioners. It provides a unique perspective to explain differences between Deaf and hearing cultures. Widely used as a text in Deaf Studies courses and interpreter training programs worldwide. Written with the help of three distinguished Deaf consultants. Authored by Cultural Detective: Deaf Culture co-authors Anna Mindess, with Thomas K. Holcomb. Published by Intercultural Press.
See What I Mean: Differences Between Deaf and Hearing Cultures
A humorous and enlightening video about the differences between Deaf and Hearing cultures. Issues such as leave-taking, privacy, attitudes toward time, giving and receiving criticism and comments on personal appearance are explored and discussed from each cultures’ point of view. L. Robert Kohls said, "I have found that the SEE WHAT I MEAN video works extremely well with standard courses in Intercultural Communication, because it makes its points so simply and so clearly. It provides the most convincing substantiation that every group is shaped by its culture and, in turn, the group creates and shapes that very culture." Authored by Cultural Detective: Deaf Culture co-authors Thomas K. Holcomb and Anna Mindess.
Wachstumsmärkte Osteuropa
This book is about Eastern European business culture especially for the German-speaking world. A collection of case studies covering poverty, culture and corruption, the role of women and religion in communist society, and customer orientation and compensation systems in organisations, will give you impressions about working in this part of the world. Countries covered include: Baltic Region, The Balcans, Poland, Czech Republic, Slowakia, Slowenia, Hungary. Countries in focus of the book: Romania and Bulgaria. Authored by Cultural Detective: Romania co-author Rita Booker and featuring Cultural Detective: Bulgaria co-author Stanislava Zaprianova and Cultural Detective: Austria co-author Dr. Brigitte Lüth. Please click on title for a German description and ordering on amazon.
Yan-koloba
A very entertaining and engaging teamwork game based on a folkloric game of West Africa that makes powerful and memorable teaching. Package includes a training video, music cassette, booklet, wood blocks and player pads.
Thiagi Workshops organized by van den Bergh Thiagi Gmbh, Winterthur Switzerland
Sivasailam (“Thiagi”) Thiagarajan is internationally recognized as an expert in multinational collaboration and active learning in organizations. In these workshops he shares his immense experience.
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