Are You Culturally Prepared?

Taking on an international assignment can be a daunting task for a number of reasons, not least; the worry of your new job along with settling yourself and your family into their new surroundings. Cultural training is all-too-often overlooked yet can play a pivotal role in the success of an international assignment.

What can Cultural Training do for me?

Cultural training helps individuals to acquire the necessary skills to ease and overcome challenges rooted in cultural differences. You will be given valuable insights into your new home country; tips on local customs and traditions and country-specific information which will help prepare you and your family to live and work effectively in a foreign culture.

As a result of vastly differing cultural values, all-too-often, we hear of employees on international assignments coming up against barriers such as; inadvertently offending their hosts, finding it difficult to adapt to social differences and overcoming pre-determined stereotypes. These are all factors which can mar cultural adaptation and affect the success of an overseas assignment.

Cultural training can be an excellent tool, not only in getting to know your host country, but also in mitigating any risk of the much-dreaded social faux-pas.

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Benefits of online Cultural Training

One of the main benefits of cultural training online is that you can determine the pace at which you learn and complete the training in the comfort of your home surroundings. You can also share what you learn with your family members there and then.

Conducting the training online also gives you the advantage of returning to any aspect that they have found particularly difficult or they would like to review again at another time, meaning that the information remains fresh in your mind.

Undoubtedly one of the greatest benefits though is the cost: cultural training which is completed online costs 10% less than your overage on-site training which covers all of the same facets… It’s a no-brainer!

Interdean Recommends RW3

RW3 CultureWizard is an intercultural training organization that specializes in creating online, e-learning facilities to develop intercultural awareness and to support effective global collaboration for organizations around the world. Founded in 2001 and with offices in New York, Los Angeles and London, RW3 CultureWizard blends 30 years of global experience with innovative technology into comprehensive intercultural learning platforms, courses and tools. These resources support RW3′s intercultural training programmes in addition to global and virtual teamwork, international assignments and country-specific information, among others.

Visit www.rw-3.com for more information.