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The Invisible Rules of Organizational Culture
Bridges develops innovative strategic management processes that get to the heart of building shared organizational alignment.

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Invisible Rules

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Overcome Negatives

Cultural Collisions

Culture Brokers

Diversity

Action Strategies

How to Handle Cultural Collisions in the Workplace

What are cultural collisions and why do they occur?

THE NEED
No matter the degree of intensity, collisions occur because of our assumptions about differences based on language, culture or physical appearance. Especially in climates of tension and mistrust, cultural collisions upset performance productivity, and in turn, reduce bottom-line profit. Thus, how to handle cultural collisions is a basic competency for managing diversity in an increasingly multicultural environment.

WHAT WE OFFER
Bridges in Organizations, Inc. offers participants an opportunity to clarify and simplify complicated cultural interactions that occur in the workplace. Our approach is based on the claim that language doesn't just describe reality, language generates our reality Through our speech acts, we can generate the spark of energy necessary for turning collisions into learning opportunities. This learning is indispensable in a learning organization.

• Learn new linguistic distinctions for understanding cultural collisions.
• Observe how your decisions, choices and actions are interpreted by those you impact and influence.
• Recognize moods that predispose the occurrence of cultural collisions.
• Practice designing conversations to handle cultural collisions.

Topics

• The Observer that You Are
• The Power of Assessments
• Organizational Implications
• Triggers and Moods
• Cultural Collisions Analysis Designing New Conversations

Individual and Team Skills for the 21st Century!

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