Corporate Training

Do you feel your employees may benefit from team building and cultural diversity training?

I can help. I operate a small consulting company (Teamwork Technologies) and have decent experience in corporate training with specialization on team building for cross-cultural workgroups and cultural diversity and communication training. Our programs range from one-time seminars and workshops to large-scale comprehensive team-development projects. We also offer adventure-based outdoor team building programs for corporate clients. The effectiveness of our training programs has been well documented in a variety of settings and with numerous organizations. I would be happy to custom-design and run a training program for your workgroup. Please contact me to check for availability and fee schedule.

Even better, I may be willing to provide highly effective training for free. There is a catch though.

I am always looking for opportunities to test my new training programs. Corporate training is expensive, and I would be happy to offer it for a fee if you are willing to allow me to collect pre- and post-training performance data so I can assess utility of different training elements. Training programs delivered for free are equally effective as the for-fee programs, but include novel training tools that are currently in development and need effectiveness training. So if you feel like receiving a high-value service for free and helping science at the same time, please let me know.

Here are general summaries of a few of our basic training programs.

Cross-Cultural Team Building

The training program is focused on team building supplemented with elements of general cross-cultural training. The emphasis is on teamwork in cross-cultural context, i.e. work in cross-cultural team and work with culturally diverse customers and colleagues.

The training session has two components: team building and cross-cultural training.

The purpose of the team building component is to improve the team spirit through various team building activities, discussions and exercises.

The purpose of the cross-cultural component is to learn more about challenges of work in cross-cultural context and best practices of dealing with those challenges.

The list of specific topics includes communication across cultures, cross-cultural differences in perceptions of justice, issues of language, status and representation inequalities, stereotyping and perception bias and others. The session is very interactive and includes various educational activities, games and discussions.

Each time the program is redesigned to meet needs of a specific organization. The length of the training may vary from a few hours to several full-day sessions, depending on the needs and preferences of the client. The sessions can be run indoor or outdoor.

This program has been especially popular among organizations that employ culturally diverse employees or work with customers of diverse backgrounds.

Challenges and Best Practices of Working in a Foreign Culture:Training for Recent Immigrants

The training program is designed for recent immigrants to help them in adapt to and integrate in their host society.

The program focuses on specifics of North-American national and work-related culture, challenges internationals are typically experiencing upon immigrating to a new country, and the best practices for dealing with those challenges.

The list of the specific topics includes communication across cultures, cross-cultural differences in perceptions of justice, issues of language, status and representation inequalities, stereotyping and perception bias and others. The issues are discussed in the workplace context.

The format of the session is an interactive lecture, i.e. while some parts of the material are delivered as an interactive lecture. That is, some part of the material are delivered in a form of a seminar, all introduced concepts are discussed with the class and supported by activities and educational games.

The ultimate goal of the training program is to prepare internationals for work in North American organizations, to minimize work-related culture shock and to prepare them for dealing with challenges of working in a new cultural environment.

Each time the program is redesigned to meet needs of a specific organization. Typically, the program length ranges from a two to eight hours, depending on the preferences and needs of the client. The program can be split in several sessions. The program can be run indoor or outdoor. The program has been especially popular among organizations that provide settlement services for recent immigrants.