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  • How can you best deal with differences when you start work in a new culture?
  • What do your foreign partners expect? 

 

Build your cross-cultural skills if you work with other nationalities

 

Alison coached a group of advertising executives from Publicis, Brazil

Oxford Professional Consulting (OPC) offers you eye-opening, informative and practical sessions to improve cultural awareness and build cross-cultural skills. You will work better internationally, in a team or alone.

Today many leaders and managers have mixed-nationality teams, so excellent intercultural skills are essential.

Our seminars and workshops give important insights into different cultures. Being aware of different cultural values and using the right cultural approach will

  • Break down barriers
  • Reduce misunderstandings
  • Build positive relationships 

Communicating across cultures

When you give a presentation outside your own country, are you always aware of what the audience's expectations might be? We can help you develop these international presentation skills.

Our most popular intercultural courses in 2009 are:

  • Working in Intercultural Teams
  • Intercultural Coaching Skills
  • Intercultural Communication

Develop your cross-cultural skills with 1:1 Intercultural Coaching

We support you before you go on a foreign assignment - and also when you are there - with our efficient coaching by phone (or in face-to-face meetings if you prefer). We use the online development tool ArgonautOnline to make our intercultural coaching extremely efficient and to give maximum insights. You develop the deeper intercultural skills of flexibility, openness and thinking beyond stereotypes. You improve your practical skills for working with different cultures. 

Besides displaying regularly updated information on over 45 different nationalities, ArgonautOnline improves practical skills, for example how to negotiate with different cultures. We use ArgonautOnline in our 1:1 intercultural coaching, and to complement our intercultural skills workshops and seminars. This tool is available on licence and can then be accessed 24/7. After our coaching or training, clients use it as a stand-alone tool for themselves. 

All our programmes are delivered in English

All our programmes are delivered in English and are open to participants of all nationalities - both those who use English as a mother tongue and those who use it as a second language.

Using English as an international language

This valuable training in careful use of International English is designed to give you a competitive edge if you work internationally or with mixed-nationality teams. Learn with us how to use English efficiently as an international business tool

Today, careful and effective use of English is essential for every professional working internationally.

Are you a Brit, Aussie, American? Is English your mother-tongue? If so, don't lose out by using English which others do not understand.

A Korean company awarded an important contract to a French supplier rather than an English one. Why? Because the French company negotiated using clearer and more understandable English. OPC can improve your skills in International English, a clearer and more comprehensible language than British English.

Our prices

  • For corporate work in UK and Norway: our prices start at £2000 per day per trainer or coach.
  • For corporate work in other countries: our prices depend on economic factors. 
  • For schools in the UK: we have special prices for schools. 

 

         
Teachers from Italy and Japan Colleges in Oxford
Careful coaching brings out the best in each professional, enabling every one to maximise their potential in an international environment.
 
      
  

"Nothing could have been improved - it was just the right mix of role-play and lecturing. Good pace and content. Very interesting."
Engineer, Corus, UK