CPS invites you to join us for a two-hour interactive, results-based workshop (with breakfast) which will equip you with a toolbox of cultural competency skills:

Overcoming Cultural Barriers in Business.

This workshop is suitable for anyone who needs to:

- build and manage multi-cultural business teams.

- manage sub-cultural differences between companies, industries and professional orientations.

- maintain relationships with diverse customers, project partners and suppliers.

- work in international business.

- promote supplier diversity.

- manage situations involving mergers or other cultural differences.

This is an interactive training workshop, not a presentation.

Facilitator: Glynis Ross-Munro, President of CPS.

Date: Tuesday, 21 February, 2012.

Time: 8 a.m. - 10 a.m.  Registration, breakfast and networking from 7.30 a.m.

Venue: The Centre Club, 123 South Westshore Blvd, Tampa, FL 33609. Free parking included.

Cost: $55.00. $6 discount for Centre Club members and TBIBC Members www.TBIBC.org. (i.e. $49)

Breakfast and refreshments (full, English breakfast) are included. Free parking. Includes all training materials.

Queries: Hilton@c-psolutions.com or 813 598 9180.

Workshop participants will learn:

• How culture affects all business - national, international, different industries, professions and companies.
  
• Your own cultural matrix and why you should understand and appreciate it.
  
• The benefits of cultural fluency in a world of many types of diversity.
• How cultural barriers damage careers, teams, and bottom-line business results.
• Seven cultural barriers that are usually invisible. How to recognize, understand and overcome them.
• Ways to make cultural fluency part of your everyday working systems.
• Applications of team and customer cultural solutions.
• How to build a personal cultural fluency tool-box.

Facilitator: Glynis has many years of experience in international business, and is also an expert in training cultural fluency. She is the Vice President of the Tampa Bay International Business Council and a past Director of the American Association of Training and Development. She has three psychology degrees and a special interest in interactive, accelerated learning. She is internationally qualified in training assessment and competency-based instructional development through City & Guild of London.