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As founder of Global Business Culture, I have been running Global Virtual Team training courses for more than 15 years for major corporations around the world.  We have run these programs on a face-to-face basis, and we have run them in a virtual setting through conference calls and digital learning courses.  It is therefore interesting…

Home-based Training for Home Workers In these difficult times, many of Global Business Culture’s clients are looking at innovative approaches to learning & development delivery as a way of both keeping the learning process moving and helping drive motivation and engagement for colleagues who are currently having to work from home. Many of these colleagues…

Despite the rise of China and the U.S.’s continued dominance, Japan remains an economic powerhouse with mega-companies controlling huge subsidiary networks around the world. It is a world leader across a number of sectors and many analysts see its inherent technological prowess as the catalyst for a new resurgence of Japanese economic success in the…

It might seem like a very shaky assertion to state that good quality, targeted cultural awareness training can increase a company’s profitability, but I believe that to be the case. The reason I have been running cultural awareness training programs around the world for the past 30 years is that I genuinely believe that a…

Cash flow forecasts are all about timing and the biggest impact of cultural differences on any business is that they slow things down – and anything that slows things down will hit your cash flow. It might seem a bit of a stretch to suggest that cultural awareness training can improve cashflow forecasting but I…

Global Business Culture works with many of the great global law firms – helping them to operate more effectively in complex cross-border environments – and much of this work focuses on helping firms improve the quality of their law firm pitch presentation to clients. We work with lawyers at various stages in their careers, from…

In this final blog in our series on global outsourcing we focus on some key internal areas of consideration which are critical but, in our experience, either overlooked or addressed poorly. Why Talent and Human Resource Management is Key During the Global Outsourcing Process. Once the decision is taken to embark on a transformational program…

Much of the training and advisory work we do at Global Business Culture is focused on making global outsourcing projects work more effectively. We run many cultural awareness training and global virtual team programs for clients who have embarked on a large-scale offshoring arrangement only to find that getting people to work efficiently across the…

In our previous blog post on global outsourcing we looked at some key issues such as strategic fit for the business, selection locations and keeping the clients in the loop. In this second blog in the series we move the process on and look at the critical challenges of partner selection and management buy-in. In…