After the recession, most organisations are looking to diversify. West is looking East. East is looking West. There is no doubt,  the commercial face of business will be reinvented as the 21st century marches forward. Businesses need to understand the cultures in which they intend to work in order to be successful. They also need to encompass cultural differences and communicating across time zones. KFVC workshops and education programmes provide frameworks to address the fundamental aspects of working across cultures to improve business performance.

KFVC will open up your perspective to view the international picture taking into consideration cultural similarities as well as differences, identify the main commercial priorities locally and globally before bringing into focus unified cross cultural objectives. We offer cultural coaching and virtual communication tools and systematic steps to adapt to the demands of cross border environments.

We provide and help implement international strategies that will facilitate business performance improvement catalysts for business improvement in further organisational initiatives. Our cross cultural development and performance measurement tools, learned and adapted from global environments, challenge the status quo, identify and resolve conflicting priorities and thereafter facilitate a positive change in the way people think and behave, encourage them to make the changes. We will:

• Move the mindset and measure it
• Challenge the team to think differently
• Coach the team to behave differently
• Coach the team in communicating virtually
• Bring awareness to the impact of not changing
• Provide processes that shift the paradigm
• Build effective international teams
• Build high performing virtual teams

Some of the tools we use are:
• Workshops and interventions to build cross cultural understanding
• Strategic business facilitation
• Baseline surveys development
• Talent Management
• 360 Assessments
• Key cross cultural skills and competencies identification
• Gap analysis of cross border business performance metrics
• Stakeholder analysis
• Values and vision development
• Culture shift programmes
• Team building
• Coaching and mentoring
• Communication skills education

“Just because we speak the same language we may not mean the same thing”