Microsoft India has been a Cultural Detective customer for six years, and we are so very proud of the abilities their staff members have developed to in turn coach and develop their support engineers' customer service skills. The entire project has been amazing; truly a privilege to be a part of it! 

I'd like to take this opportunity to share a bit of their "Cultural Effective" story with you. 

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Are you ready for some meaningful and useful professional development? Something that stimulates your brain and gives you new ideas that you can immediately adapt to your training, coaching, or teaching? Learn a proven method to transform your leadership, your curriculum, or your ways of teaming! Jumpstart productivity, lower costs, or help develop intercultural competence as part of your study abroad students' skill set! Even highly experienced facilitators benefit from joining one of our CD Facilitator Certification Workshops.

Conducted in partnership with Atieh International, this course will focus on the Middle East and contain one extra half-day of area-specific content not normally included in our certification workshops. 

Facilitated by Dianne Hofner Saphiere and Pari Namazie. Cost includes materials and one month of Cultural Detective Online. 

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"Creating, Adapting, and Using Intercultural Training Activities" is a one-day pre-conference workshop of SIETAR France. Participants will experience and learn the creative processes behind both the Cultural Detective® training tools and diversophy® games. These two training activities deal with a wide variety of countries, cultures, and intercultural themes, and provide an unequalled resource for customizing your training to a wide range of different target groups and needs. Explore best practices for their use with online or face-to-face intercultural learning in both organizational and academic contexts. Participants will have the option to explore these tools in both French and English versions.

 
Facilitated by George Simons and Catherine Roignan.   

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Another really good movie, too, this one an Academy-award-winning documentary. If you love an amazing story that serendipitously weaves together continents, champions the underdog, and echoes the resonance of truth across cultures, Searching for Sugar Man is for you!

Sixto Rodriguez is the working-class son of Mexican immigrants to the USA. As an anti-establishment folk singer he published two albums in the 1970s about the marginalized poor of the inner city. The music is powerful and haunting, but his albums met with minimal success in the US, and Rodriguez was dropped from his record label. 

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What do oil tycoons, American Indians, and bank robbers have in common? I had a chance to find out recently, when I visited the Woolaroc Museum in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, USA. The name "Woolaroc" is composed of the words "woods," "lakes," and "rocks." The museum and surrounding natural park, located in the beautiful hills in the northernmost vestiges of the Ozark Mountains, was a gift to the people from Frank Phillips, the founder of Phillips Petroleum (Phillips 66). The museum is full of extraordinary Indian art and artifacts, as well as cowboy and frontier art and artifacts. 

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