Cultivating Cultural Competence for Successful Global Business

Cultivating Cultural Competence is a 1/2-day hands-on workshop for business leaders, HR and global mobility professionals, global and diverse teams, international assignees, educators, and globally minded denizens.

This specially curated workshop led by Anna Katrina Davey will be held in the spacious boardroom of BBVA Compass in the heart of Austin and will feature a very special gong fu cha style tea service provided by Austin’s very own Tea Master So Han Fan who will have recently returned from his yearly 2-month pilgramage to China.

This highly practical and interactive workshop will help participants:

• Recognize cultural variables and learn how to better leverage them in business outcome
• Understand how culture impacts performance, effective communication, work relationships and international business success

• Develop awareness of their cultural conditioning, blind spots and how some behaviors can be perceived and interpreted by others

• Distinguish between easy-to-see superficial cultural differences and the deeper less visible elements of culture which are actually critical to avoiding misunderstandings, loss of business, damaged relationships and reputation

• Identify their cultural blueprint in the form of communication, decision-making, conflict-resolution and negotiation styles, attitudes towards authority, use of time and space, as well as related culture-based assumptions and perceptions

• Start working and communicating more effectively across cultures

If you’d like to:

• Avoid costly misunderstandings, unclosed deals, damaged relationships and failed assignments
• Gain insight into culture-based expectations of clients and counterparts

• Increase productivity

• Speed up project completion and reduce lag time
• Grow employee confidence in navigating culturally complex situation
• Develop the ability to think outside the box

• Leverage diversity and capitalize on differences
• Gain a competitive advantage
• Acquire new skills in a mindful, nourishing and exclusive setting…

…then this training workshop is for you!

Looking forward to working with you in this shared and curated experience,

Anna Katrina

Anna Katrina Davey

Principal & Founder, Cultural Confidence | TEDx Paris & International Speaker