Cultural Diversity Assessment

Many organisations fail to grasp the importance of culture, the relevance of the differences in culture and the impact of cross cultural conflicts.

Organisations can vastly benefit from more cultural awareness, e.g. when establishing international operations, or after a merger or an acquisition.

With consultants from across six different cultures, Biznessence will help you develop strategies to use cultural diversity as an asset, by helping your employees better understand each other. The Biznessence approach has been shown to rapidly achieve success, thereby limiting resistance. Very quickly and without conflict, teams learn to exchange different views and opinions, which has a positive impact on creativity and innovation.

What are we assessing?
Biznessence uses a model looking at the most significant dimensions characterising cultural differences. At the same time we assess how open an organisation is to cultural diversity, as we very often find a direct link between (the lack of) openness to cultural diversity and (the lack of) cultural diversity awareness.

Frontiers are quickly disappearing
Companies and organisations are more and more moving into global and cross-cultural environments. Their managers and staff are expected to adapt to different ways of working and to adjust their behaviour and management methods accordingly.

Project Management across borders…
means project management across cultures. This demands skills and competencies which require a minimal awareness of the impact of the diversity in cultures, visions and approaches. Managers and executives with international responsibilities quickly discover how essential it is to manage cultural diversity appropriately. Their success depends largely on coordination across cultures of their teams and projects.

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Cultural Diversity Coaching

Advantages of Expatriation/Repatriation Support for the organisation

• The organisation benefits by being able to prevent unnecessary frictions in teams, departments or with external partners
• Better and more transparent communication with all managers and staff, wherever they are located
• More added value by using cultural diversity as an enriching and exciting pool of new approaches and ideas.

Advantages for the Expatriated or Repatriated Manager

• The manager has a better insight in how his own culture affects his behaviour and his communication with colleagues of a different culture.
• It becomes easier for him/her to understand the frames of reference of others.
• Consequently he/she will have a more profound impact on others, and moreover grow as a leader.
• He/she manages to quickly change from one cultural framework into another and becomes better at negotiating with partners in different cultural environments.