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TMC prepares you to successfully conduct business in global markets, enhance global team performance, and foster an inclusive environment by:

• Building organizational and individual cultural competence
• Preparing global teams to work in virtual, multinational settings
• Developing global executives to lead a diverse workforce
• Implementing an innovative, customized global diversity and inclusion strategy

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As a critical component of TMC’s Learning Methodology, our facilitator-led programs help organizations build the competencies essential for today’s global workforce.

Conducting Business in Global Markets

This program builds individual and team competencies required for working, managing, and leading across cultures and geographies by demonstrating the impact of culture on establishing credibility, communication, building relationships, aligning business culture and mastering effective management styles.

Doing Business in…(Country or Region)

This program assists professionals who are conducting business in a new geographic region or country and need to optimize their cross-cultural effectiveness by increasing awareness and specific knowledge of business, social, and market cultures. Participants explore the cultural background of a country, its history, geography, natural resources and contemporary society, as well as business etiquette and practices.

Collaborating Across Cultures

This highly interactive workshop targets the challenges posed by working inside rapidly globalizing organizations where cultural differences across geographies can contribute to decreased productivity and cause misunderstandings and conflicts. Designed for managers and collaborative contributors who work together in a virtual environment, this program focuses on teamwork, accurate communication and efficiency.

Leading Global Teams

Global team leaders gain practical insights on how culture impacts the team process, acquire effective multicultural leadership and management skills, use tools for modeling flexible and resilient communication processes, and explore best practices for participating in global teams.

Valuing Diversity, Practicing Inclusion

Designed for employees and managers who need to understand the impact and challenges of the global marketplace and workforce diversity in the organization, this workshop explores various diversity challenges, the business case for creating an inclusive culture, and links these to the organization’s existing Diversity & Inclusion initiative.

Inclusive Leadership

This program provides managers and leaders worldwide with the awareness, knowledge, and skills that enable them to contribute to their fullest potential. Managers explore critical issues related to specific workforce diversity concerns from both global and local perspectives. Participants practice key skills to enhance inclusiveness and leadership performance.

Cultural Orientations at Work

Designed to help participants acquire the critical skills and mindset for working or leading in a globalized business environment, this interactive, hands-on program focuses on the impact of culture in establishing credibility, communicating, building relationships, and collaborating in virtual teams. Participants are introduced to the Cultural Orientations Model, which provides a systematic approach to understanding the cultural differences one encounters when working globally.

TMC’s global network includes highly qualified consultants, coaches, facilitators and subject matter experts with a wealth of senior level, industry-specific expertise.

Our experts work with you on customized consulting and learning solutions to help execute your global strategy.

Cultural Integration in Mergers & Acquisitions

TMC has assisted many clients to gain momentum in a merger by supporting the achievement of an aligned organizational culture.

Global Diversity & Inclusion Strategy Implementation

Many global companies have embraced wide diversity in their workforce, and yet failed to realize the benefits of diverse strengths, perspectives and cultures. TMC helps create a culture of inclusion, providing the basis to leverage the diversity available for innovation, productivity and results.

Global Outsourcing

Many organizations pursuing global outsourcing strategies experience difficulties in reaching a mutual understanding on work styles, communication, project planning and execution, and client service standards. TMC supports clients with developing cultural competence in their organizations to effectively address these challenges.

Global Joint Ventures

Joint ventures across organizational, functional and national/regional cultures are difficult, even when the financial results promise benefits to both parties. TMC facilitates a non-judgmental discussion to reveal sources of misunderstandings and offer solutions for cultural alignment.

Global Leadership and Team Development

TMC assists global leaders and teams in building awareness of cultural norms and the impact they can have on teams, functions, and/ or organizations. TMC’s focus on leveraging diversity and practicing inclusion through executive coaching and team building helps organizations to optimize talent and attain higher levels of performance.

Delivers the most comprehensive cultural and global business intelligence available through and on-line interface.

The Cultural Navigator® web platform is designed to develop cultural competence, prepare employees to do business in global markets, enhance team effectiveness, and to support inclusiveness within an organization.

CN Mobile™

Introducing the new Cultural Navigator® Mobile website – CN Mobile™!

CN Mobile is available to anyone who has a license to the Cultural Navigator.

Optimized for iOS 3.0+, Android 2.0+, and Blackberry 6.0 devices.

Applications

• Global Leadership Development
• Inclusiveness Development
• Global Organization Performance
• Cultural Competent Employee Development
• Cultural Integration (Mergers, Acquisitions, and Joint Ventures)
• Global Business Skill Development

The Cultural Navigator® Consists of 6 Primary Channels

Assessment channel

Cultural Orientations Indicator® (COI) Online Assessment
The COI assessment is a statistically validated cultural assessment that measures a person’s work style preferences against 10 dimensions of culture. Provided comparison tools generate an analysis of cultural gaps by comparing your COI cultural profile with national and regional cultural profiles.

The COI assessment is available in 13 different languages - Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Spanish (Español), Spanish (Americano Latino).

COI Assessment: User-to-User and Team Comparisons
User-to-User COI Comparisons – allows you to invite colleagues to compare their COI Cultural Profile with your own. You can also compare potential cultural gaps with up to ten colleagues at one time through the User-to-User Gap Analysis Tool. Recommendations to bridge these gaps are given.

COI Teams – allows you to create teams, run COI Aggregate Team Reports and compare your personal COI® preferences with those team members who have released their COI Cultural Profiles.

Other Assessments:
The flexibility of the Cultural Navigator™ allows our clients to integrate other assessments including TMC’s Management Assessment and The Inclusive Leadership Profile™.

CountryScope Channel
An in-depth reference and information resource on 100+ countries: Basic Facts, Economy, Culture, World Times, History, Maps, Useful Links, Diversity, Relocation, Travel and a detailed treatment of management and business practices across cultures. Country COI® Cultural Profiles and comparisons with other national cultures are provided, as well as scenarios and world quizzes. Customized country reports can be generated instantly. These reports can be printed or saved to your virtual briefcase.

New Feature! Cultural Navigator® Learning Paths
Cultural Navigator® Learning Paths enable organizations to create a step-by-step path that guides their employees to a specific learning objective. Multiple Learning Paths can be assigned to an organization allowing different groups/teams/Business Units to have their own learning objectives.

Simulator Channel

Cultural Simulator
The Cultural simulator presents you with a selection of scenarios to test your cultural knowledge.

Learning Zone Channel
The Learning Zone is a customizable channel where organizations can upload additional learning solutions to the Cultural Navigator®. Each Cultural Navigator® license includes 2 free web-courses, Cultural Orientations at Work and Looking towards a Global Future. Organizations can also choose to upload other web-courses to their Learning Zone.

Toolbox Channel

Cultural Toolbox
This channel provides users with access to a variety of InfoPacks that contain concise, resolution-oriented information, tips and tools that address key global management issues. Topics include: Project Management, Communication, Teams, and International Business.

Exchange Forum Channel
The Exchange Forum provides access to the Cultural Navigator’s worldwide network of advisors and subject matter experts (SME) at no cost. After you post a question a SME will respond within 72 business hours.

The Cultural Orientations Indicator (COI) is a web-based self-reporting tool for the development of culturally competent managers and leaders. Through the reliable assessment of an individual’s cultural preferences and comparative analysis, individuals acquire the awareness and knowledge necessary for building effective skills and behavioral adaptations for multicultural management and business.

Individuals access the COI via the Internet. Once registered, users engage in three steps:

1. Complete biographical data
2. Respond to 87 questions
3. Review an instantly available profile

The resulting individual cultural profile enables a comparison with other individuals, group/team aggregates and national norms. Similarities and differences are indicated and potential culture-based risk and success factors are identified. On the basis of these results, effective cross-cultural management and business strategies can be developed.

Applications for the COI include; Global Management and Leadership Development, Multicultural Teambuilding and Team Development, Global Diversity Initiatives, Cultural Integration Initiatives (Mergers, Acquisitions and Joint Ventures), International Assignee Preparation, and more.

Cultural Orientations Indicator Features:

Available new features include the User-To-User COI Comparison; with this tool one can invite other users to compare COI Profiles. One can also compare potential cultural gaps with up to ten users at one time through the User-To-User Gap Analysis Tool.

COI Teams allows users to create teams, run COI Aggregate Team Reports and compare personal COI preferences with those team members who have released their COI Profiles.

• The COI indicates an individual’s area of potential cultural difference for which behavioral changes might be considered
• Recommendations for behavioral changes are included with each individual profile
• Generates targeted comparisons and analysis of cultural gaps by comparing COI profiles with national and regional cultural profiles
• Intensifies understanding of the Cultural Orientations Model and the COI through a detailed tutorial.
• The COI assessment and individual cultural profile reports are available in Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Spanish (Espanol) and Spanish (Americana Latino)

The Cultural Orientations Model (COM)

The COM is a framework for describing, comparing, mapping and analyzing the components of culture at any level. It provides a shared knowledge and comprehensive lens with which to analyze cultural phenomena and cultural encounters. The ten dimensions of the COI are; Environment, Time, Action, Communication, Space, Power, Individualism, Competitiveness, Structure, and Thinking