Intercultural Consulting
Among the most critical business areas for intercultural awareness and skills are human resources policies and global teams. Gillespie Global Group consulting initiatives are designed to assess and improve the effectiveness of clients’ HR policies and of their global teams.
Click or tap the blue buttons below if you’d like to jump ahead to a specific consulting program overview.
Human Resources Audit
Designed to enable Human Resources Departments to assess intercultural effectiveness, with respect to the following:
- Talent-development training initiatives
- Assessing competence across cultures
- Designing performance appraisal systems and documents
- Assessing expatriation and inpatriation policies and practices
- Interviewing and recruiting
- Writing job descriptions
- Employee retention
Global Teambuilding
Designed to enable smoother, more effective teamwork, inevitably involving teams composed of employees in far-flung locations with widely diverse languages, cultures, and assumptions about how teams should work and how success is measured.
Benefits
- Improved mutual understanding, respect, and trust across the ethnicities and cultures represented on the team.
- Increased grasp of the strategies and tactics of productively functioning teams.
- Enhanced willingness to compromise for the good of the whole team.
- More effective leadership and teamwork through respecting each other’s positions and trusting in the group process to achieve the desired results.
Objectives
- As a team, reach consensus on goal statements for the critical issues, identified through interviews, which need practical resolution, compromise, or improvement.
- Identify the key barriers to change, based on the causes and consequences of each critical issue.
- Develop action steps to attain the agreed-upon goal statements.
Let’s work together
For more than three decades, companies such as Aflac, Boeing, Canon, Coach, Eli Lilly and Company, Ford, Honda, MUFG Union Bank, N.A., Sony and Uniqlo have relied on Gillespie Global Group’s trans-Pacific research, consulting, executive coaching and training to improve employee engagement and increase profits. Perhaps we can help your company, too.