Lay the ground stone for successful cooperation in your multicultural team – from the beginning. Create an atmosphere of trust, responsibility, team spirit and performance orientation and build a successful team.

Possible topics could be:

• Creating and reflecting on initial, common experiences
• Having fun and joy in the team – outside of work
• Developing a common „language“, rituals and rules
• Personal preferences of team members (e.g. with Diversity IcebreakerÒ,  or MBTI Ò)
• Appreciating differences

More and more foreign professionals are joining the German workforce. We support you in making this integration as smooth as possible.

Possible topics could be:

• Rituals and rules in the team
• Feedback culture(s)
• Accepting and understanding
• Team roles and taking on new roles
• Responsibilities and division of tasks
• Communication and cooperation in the team
• Conflict solving strategies in the team

Managers of teams with members spread all over the globe face special challenges – especially when face-to-face meetings seldom, or never, take place. Here it’s important to apply the team success factors in a virtual context.

Possible topics could be:

• Dealing with anonymity
• Information management
• Informal interaction possibilities – norms and approaches
• Roles and rituals in virtual teams
• Communication and cooperation

Every successful team needs phases of reflection and optimization. With multicultural teams this means applying special sensitivity and empathy.

Possible topics could be:

• Communication behavior of the stakeholders
• Understanding of the team members regarding common goals and work approach
• Culturally caused opposites or understanding problems
• Pre-requisites for/ limits of acceptance
• Conflicts and conflict solving strategies