Harness the power of your team’s diversity
We live in a world with a globalized workforce where many organizations have teams that span different time zones, countries and continents. Managing culturally diverse teams can be very challenging. With the rising prevalence of remote work, cross-cultural team building has become more important than ever.
In multicultural teams the usual challenges of team building and fostering teamwork become more magnified. Dealing with cultural differences, language barriers and remote team members are just a few of the issues that today’s managers and leaders face.
Cross-cultural team building is a great starting point for understanding what drives people from different cultures and how you can you can bring international teams closer to each other.
Acceptance of cultural diversity and an inclusive mindset are hallmarks of high-performing teams. So how can you better manage your culturally diverse team for peak performance?
Birdwell Communication & Cultures provides cross-cultural team building programs to improve team dynamics and performance: More creativity and idea generation, faster decision-making, and more efficient problem solving
Aim
Build communication skills and team dynamics to improve multicultural team performance and productivity.
Duration
1 day – 7 hours, face to face or by video conferencing.
Group
2-14 participants
Prerequisites
None
Course language
English or French
Course certificate
Certificate of course completion
Participant profile
Our cross-cultural team building sessions are designed for any global, cross-functional or multicultural team, co-located or working remotely.
Benefits
This cross-cultural team building seminar is customized to match your team’s diversity and company culture for improved communication, agility and performance.
It will provide you with improved team productivity through enhanced communication skills and team dynamics.
Content
• Develop or reinforce team identity.
• Understand the cultural differences from a positive view point of the other team members and debunk stereotypes.
• Create trust to develop synergy and the ability to concentrate on tasks versus personality or power issues.
• Develop active listening skills with team members to be able to manage projects effectively.
• Reduce tension, misunderstandings and conflict in the team so that members can work efficiently and reach milestones and goals more quickly.
Very good trainer, very American: he goes straight to the point, but he’s always ready to listen to the participants, which I’m sure is his “French” side! He used interesting slides that I’ll be able to draw on in the future. No negative comments, it was very interesting! The trainer was good, and as I just found out, an American would have said “Amazing”! I’m going to encourage my colleagues and my team to take this “Working with Americans” course. June 2025
What I appreciated most about this course: the exchanges, the 360° vision of interculturality, the different elements of culture, the examples, the trainer and asking questions before meeting people from other cultures. This training perfectly met my expectations. Training course “Developing intercultural competence”, June 2025.
This training opened my eyes to what I had not perceived. I now have a better understanding of how my American colleagues perceive us and what their expectations and needs are. The training was practical. I came away with tools and ideas. There is nothing complicated; you just have to know it 😊. Today, I communicate differently with my American colleagues which facilitates my exchanges and allows me to gain in efficiency.
This program was essential for me and my colleagues to develop an understanding and appreciation of the French way of work…
Good balance between theoretical input and the experience of the trainer. This course has helped us to distinguish differences in personal behavior and other types of behavior conditioned by American culture.
