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Cultural Awareness Course

“The trainer was very experienced and added a great value to the course.”

Oerlikon delegate

If you are looking for online courses then please see our e-Learning on Cultural Awareness.

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Our training helps learners recognise the impact of cultural differences at work and how to manage them postively and productively.

 

 

 

Course Aims

Our Cultural Awareness course equips professionals with the understanding, sensitivity and strategies to work and communicate successfully across cultural lines.

The training engages participants with the challenges of cross-cultural communication, whilst providing practical advice on working successfully within a multicultural or international environment.

 

Who For?

Anyone who works with people from other cultures, whether in their home country, abroad or virtually.

 

How Does it Help?

Our cultural awareness course will help learners...

  • Gain an understanding of the mechanics of culture and its influence on work
  • Discover effective personal techniques to help overcome cross-cultural challenges
  • Develop emotional intelligence and a culturally-aware mindset
  • Make an excellent impression when working across cultures

 

How is the Training Delivered?

All our courses are delivered online as webinars.

Once we know a bit more about your needs, our trainers will design a webinar, or a series of webinars, to help deliver the intervention you need.

 

Case Study 

Our client is a UK high-street fashion brand. Not only were they receiving visitors to their flagship London store from places like Japan, Nigeria and Russia, the company was also eyeing up global expansion into China and the Middle East.

In order to get their people thinking how best to present the brand and its values to this international audience, the company wanted us to run a cultural sensitvity course for them which focused on fashion, retail, lifestyle and cultural differences.

We designed a series of webinars for their team with fantastic feedback from everyone involved.

 

How Do I Book a Course?

Simply get in touch.

With15+ years' experience delivering cross-cultural training courses we can quickly help you pin down goals and identify opportunities for your training.

 

Can I Get More Info?

Of course.

If you would like a detailed look at the course outline, simply use the the form below and we will email you a copy.

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Our Training Approach

Our name - Commisceo - perfectly describes our training ethos.

Commisceo is Latin, meaning “to unite, to mix, to mingle”; it infers that through people coming together, mingling and sharing knowledge, that unity can be brought about.

Many businesses and organisations appreciate that their staff need this understanding - with the global economy more important than ever they are investing in training courses, resources and intranet content to bring about “cultural competence”, “cultural sensitivity” or “cultural awareness”.

We feel many of the cultural awareness courses on offer today are defunct; they tend to be based on old, tired, monocultural paradigms and on top of that stick to the standard training-room-style format. Very few achieve true “cultural awareness” - in fact, if anything many courses entrench people further in their own cultural definitions rather than allow them to break free of them which is exactly what is needed.

As leaders in cultural awareness training and coaching we have adopted a different approach. We emphasise self-critique, skills based cultural understanding and experiential learning.

Our focus is on creating ‘global mindedness’. We don’t want “culturally conscious” people at the end of our courses, we want “culturally unconscious” people in that culture never becomes an issue for them; they don’t even think about culture as they have the skills, insight and know-how to think beyond this and see things holistically. No matter where in the world, or who they work with, they know how to make things work.

Our Cross Cultural Trainers

We are very proud of our trainers.

We believe they are the best in the business in terms of their know-how and more importantly, how they relate to and educate others.

Where do our cross-cultural trainers come from?

Professionally all our trainers are people from industry. If we deliver a course on management in Indonesia, our trainer would have been a manager in Indonesia.

If we are designing and delivering a team-building course for a global brand, our trainer would have been a manager of a multicultural team for a global brand.

Our trainers are picked specifically for individual clients based on professional experience.

Trainers are also chosen for their training styles and charisma; we don’t do ‘stand in front of audience and talk’ training. Our style is engaging, interactive, explorative and creative. All our trainers reflect this in how they deliver. Although all are natural motivators and educators, they all keep abreast of innovations and developments in methodologies, tools and the like.

The final requisite for our trainers is to wholeheartedly share our beliefs in why and how we train people. A shared ethos ensures our clients receive outstanding consultancy pre- and post-training.