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