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Successful Mergers, Acquisitions and Strategic Alliances: How to Bridge Corporate Cultures
by The acquisition has been signed! The big multinational (let’s call it Huge Inc) has finally acquired the smaller niche-market company (we’ll call it Small Inc) in order to pursue its strategic diversification. Small Inc teams are interested but not overjoyed even though it means much needed development resources. After all, many of the Small Inc [...]
Read More about Melting the Ice: First Post-Acquisition EncounterToday, companies need to develop leaders who can work effectively in a variety of cultural environments and with a culturally broad range of colleagues, partners, and other stakeholders. For any international talent development process, key questions will be: How do you recognize a good international manager? How do you develop sound international talent?
ICM’s Cultural Bridging Skills© (CBS) provide the methods that enable leaders and managers to communicate and work effectively across cultural borders. Cultural Bridging Skills© are grouped around three skill sets:
- Adapting to culturally different environments and feeling comfortable with differences;
- Establishing interactions that promote trust with people from different cultural backgrounds and creating a strong sense of belonging and engagement;
- Enabling people from different cultural backgrounds to work together effectively and harmoniously, and to perform together.
Our Cultural Bridging Skills© questionnaire allows individuals to evaluate their level of competence in this area and plan strategies to develop greater ease and effectiveness in an international and multicultural professional environment.