"Building the Virtual Team has had a really positive impact. We use it as part of our overall diversity strategy to help people become more conscious of cultural diversity." - Bonnie Roelofs, Senior Global Diversity Advisor, Shell Oil

As businesses increasingly outsource operations across the globe, it's essential that you train your people how to work across technology with other cultures. To survive in business today, you need to master the often overlooked but potentially damaging impact of ancient culture on 21st century communications.

Ideal for team building exercises, Building the Virtual Team: Communication Across Cultural Diversity observes a group leader and the problems she faces in virtual team management as she struggles to lead her managers in Asia, India, Africa and Latin America.

Benefits of this training program include:

• Realizing the importance of human relationships in many cultures
• Discovering how impersonal communication can backfire
• Learning how to balance high-tech and high-touch
• Finding out how to deal with language and translation issues
• Dealing effectively with time zones, response time, etc.
• Understanding that awareness is a "two-way street": all cultures need to adapt
• Learning how to bridge differences and create a balanced approach

With Building the irtual Team: Communication Across Cultural Diversity, you will:

• Enjoy turnkey solutions: just pop in a DVD or VHS! Support materials make training even easier
• Create dynamic learning: break up live training with colorful, engaging visuals
• Provide outside expertise: our real-life scenarios are backed by a who's who of content experts
• Use visual learning: bring topics to life to achieve faster, more effective learning