Research shows that cultural diversity holds great potential. Studies have found that multicultural teams have the capacity to generate more innovation and, over time, achieve better performance compared to monocultural teams. We call this the cultural diversity bonus.

However, this potential is not unlocked simply by bringing together people from different cultural backgrounds. It requires effort, intention, and active awareness.

Building a strong multicultural team requires cultural understanding

Creating inclusion across personal preferences and cultural backgrounds and unlocking the cultural diversity bonus requires cultural understanding. That’s why developing cultural intelligence within your team is essential.

Based on your team, we help you identify how to best realize the potential and leverage the strength of your cultural diversity.

Strengthen your cultural intelligence

In this workshop, we develop the team’s and individual members’ cultural intelligence by equipping participants with new, research-based insights into cultural interaction and the fundamental cultural differences that are essential for effective collaboration. We also work on raising awareness of your own cultural biases.

Challenge your cultural biases

Cultural bias means viewing others’ actions through the lens of norms and standards from our own culture. From there, we move to the personal level, exploring each team member’s individual profile and preferences, and identifying how your team can turn differences into strengths.

If desired, we can also work towards defining a new shared team culture — one that optimizes collaboration and builds an effective, high-performing team.

We also offer the option of conducting a pre-analysis to provide valuable data for use during the workshop.

You should choose this training if

• You are a team with members from many different cultural backgrounds
• You are a team with members who have 2 or 3 different cultural backgrounds

This training will give you, amongst other things

Specific knowledge about

• How you can take advantage of your qualities as a multicultural team
• The cultural differences your team should be aware of
• Which personal profiles each individual in your team has, and how they work in the team dynamics
• How to develop a highly effective multicultural team

Competencies to

• Leverage the strengths of being a multicultural team
• Build trust and optimize team communication
• Create an effective and high-performing team
• Establish a new shared team culture
• Act with greater Cultural Intelligence internally and externally

In a multicultural team workshop, we provide knowledge and skills to optimize collaboration and communication within your team — all while having fun. The session also functions, in part, as a form of teambuilding, with exercises and reflections. It can optionally be combined with elements from our braintertainment program.

We can also conduct a preliminary cultural analysis or inclusion survey in your team, allowing us to work in a data-driven and targeted way.

Workshop, course, lecture or one-to-one training?

We can advise you on the form that is most relevant to you.