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To be successful, today's international managers need more than an awareness of social and cultural differences. They need to have more than personal and cultural self-awareness; more than sensitivity to other's values, attitudes and beliefs.


Schnapper Associates will give you this and more. Investing in our programs will give you the appropriate and effective management and business negotiation skills to complete projects and close business deals and solve problems quickly, profitably and satisfactorily for all parties concerned. We will show you profitable solutions to all your problems with a wide range of dynamic, flexible and results-oriented programs and consulting services, for example:

The Problem

The Solution

Labor Unrest


One of your highly rated engineering supervisors fails to get cooperation from his workers.


Reason:
His "get it done at any price" approach, so successful in the States. creates outright hostility and production delays among his Venezuelan work force.

International management Skills

Schnapper Associates trains international managers to adjust their expectations, attitudes and behavior, and, as a result, to manage effectively in a multinational environment. International Project Management Project and matrix management can be difficult, even within one's own culture. Schnapper Associates' special planning, organizing and defining techniques will help your international project managers to reduce risks, effect quick project start-up and keep projects moving efficiently.

Delayed Projects


The project team for an international port facility is beset with a series of costly delays.


Reason:
Though individually highly competent and technically skilled, the various nationals involved have had no project management experience for training for working within an international project team.

Multinational Team Building


Schnapper Associates trains international managers in techniques and skills that focus on accomplishing tasks, while improving mutual understanding and support.

Excessive Costs

A production team fails to make progress in planning and implementing production procedures after nearly six months of working together.

Reason:
While your British employees are committed to participative decision making, the Nigerian workers are waiting to be told what to do.

International Leadership Training

This program trains leaders in the many and divers styles of leadership that occur internationally. Depending on culture, both national and corporate, appropriate leadership may be on different points of a continuum from nearly authoritarian to being highly participative regarding teamwork, decision making, delegation and conflict resolution.

Lost Production Time


Your international training department, though staffed with seasoned trainers, fails to train a group of Egyptians for new production supervisor roles.

Reason:
The methods and materials they employed, though highly effective in the States, are not appropriate for training Middle Easterners.

International Trainer Training

Schnapper Associates has developed total "train the trainer" programs (including consulting skills) for your trainers about how to operate abroad and create culturally appropriate and effective training (programs and material) for your international and multicultural work force.

Wasted Talent and Potential

Your most capable marketing executive terminates his Paris assignment after five months.

Reason:
As a family unit, his wife, children and he fail to adjust to a foreign environment.

Family Communication Skills


Well adjusted family members are essential to the success of your new international manager. Schnapper Associates' family and inter-cultural communication training will prepare managers and their families for their new

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