Cultural Awareness Training

We offer a variety of training sessions which can be combined together to create a course which is most suitable for your individual organisation's requirements. We offer a combination of core sessions (which we consider are essential to gaining a good understanding of cultural diversity and cross-cultural awareness) and a wide selection of optional sessions from which we hope you will find a match for your own requirements.

There are two main courses offered. Cultural Diversity focuses on diversity issues in the UK workplace whereas Cross-Cultural Awareness is designed as a broader approach to enhancing cross-cultural awareness and may have more appeal for those working internationally. The core sessions are planned to provide the basic knowledge required in each of the two areas. This could be run as a stand alone course, or it can be supplemented with optional sessions from either area. As a guideline, two optional sessions will create a one-day course. If you need more sessions, let us know which you are interested in and we will develop a proposal for you.

Many of the sessions use case studies which have been developed from practical examples. All sessions are designed to be interactive and we encourage full participation from members of the group.

Cultural Diversity

Core Sessions

Introduction to cultural diversity

Equality or diversity?

Direct and indirect discrimination

Anti-discrimination laws

Understanding prejudice

Optional Sessions

Building the business case		Identifying and overcoming barriers
Flexible working arrangements		Employee Relations and cultural diversity
Disability and the workplace		Auditing policies for accessibility
Sociolinguistics		Understanding our own cultural influences
Religion in the workplace		Sexual orientation in the workplace

Cross-Cultural Awareness

Core Sessions

Defining culture

Theoretical background

Understanding our individual cultural influences

Optional Sessions

Sociolinguistics		High context / low context
Managing people across cultures		Single country briefing
Marketing across cultures		Global change management
Body language and gestures		Cross-cultural presentations
Barnga® a game of communication (counts as two sessions)

All sessions are designed to be interactive and we encourage full participation from members of the group. We are also able to develop courses for more specialist needs. Contact us for a proposal or download and complete our training needs analysis form here tna_checklist.doc.

You can also see a number of outline proposals we have prepared for previous clients. Example 1 | Example 2 | Example 3