Global Teams
- Developing cultural awareness in global teams
- Building meaningful global relationships
- Creating high performing global teams
Global teamwork is made highly challenging by the complexity of national and cultural values, assumptions and behaviours, the international dispersion of team members frequently in different time zones, differing national business agendas and infrequent or even non-existent face-to-face team meetings. But global team working is a core dimension of global organisation and requires significant investment to work effectively.
While the structural and physical realities cannot be changed, building team awareness of cultural differences and values helps generate the trust and collaboration necessary for clarification of objectives, openness about conflicts of interest and willingness to find solutions in the best interests of the team and the organisation.
We know that global teams that pay attention to and invest in building their relationships function more effectively than those that do not. We work with global teams to identify blockages, calibrate performance and classify the real issues the team is confronting before designing interventions that meet specific team and global business needs. We facilitate real-time global team business activity and use both team coaching, and experiential off-site team development activity to build high performance global teams.
