Astin Brown Inc's Communicating Across Cultures Pocket Guides ™

An exciting new concept in cross-culture communication, these handy pocket-sized guides present a tightly edited action list for determined executives expecting success working across cultures.

Compiled by Parveen Sandhu (PhD) and Tahnya Butterfield-Gill, these cross-culture communication guides have been developed from academic research and learnings from senior organisational leaders. They provide up-to-date information and list strategies necessary for successful cross-culture communication for burgeoning economies.

The series launched in September 2007 with Russia, China, India, Malaysia and the Middle East, to complement Astin Brown Inc’s executive program in Cross-Culture Communication.

Astin Brown Inc's X-Cultured for Customers ™

Executive Development and Intercultural Communication have coexisted as separate, parallel disciplines. Our X-Cultured for Customers program weaves the two disciplines together into a coherent and accessible whole. The program is customised to suit the client's needs specific to it's industry and markets. The program is available for facilitation by our consultants or for delivery as a 'train-the-trainer' program.

The program delivers to managers and their teams a deeper understanding of the cross cultural nuances that make people tick, increasing their awareness of the interactions that occur around them. Managers learn to focus less on specific behaviors and more on understanding the drivers of behavior within different cultural contexts.

Astin Brown Inc's Cross Culture Communication Profiler ™

Developed by Astin Brown Inc to provide valid behaviour and context indicators for matrix teams or individuals, the results from the Profiler demonstrate an individual's ability to communicate vis-a-vis global communication standards. The program is used as a diagnostic inventory for cross-cultured teams, executive coaching & leadership development activities or combined with X-Cultured for Customers™ program.

Astin Brown Inc's Leadership Development Survey™

Our custom designed Leadership Development Survey provides individuals and groups with a realistic appreciation of their strengths and areas for development - in a framework relevant to the organisation. This survey is highly effective for facilitating individual management of careers, guiding executive coaching outcomes and cross culture communication action plans and for improving the effectiveness of leaders.

How Creating Powerful Cultures can help your business:

With the use of powerful Image Cards©, teams and individuals can quickly assess cultural gaps, conduct corporate culture audits and use a range of tried and tested tools to facilitate change.

This product includes everything you need as a practitioner from diagnostic tools to assess your current environment to exercises and visioning processes to create a compelling culture for the future.

Based on academic research in Corporate culture as well as many years testing in the field, this toolkit is an essential for any organisational development practitioner, CEO or change agent.