About Trompenaars Hampden-Turner
Background
Both Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner are highly-acclaimed academic professionals who have researched cultural differences for over two decades. They are captivating and thought-provoking in their presentation styles and many writings. Backed by their research, they have contributed many breakthrough ideas on the deeper understanding and reconciliation of inter- and intra-cultural diversity.
We are a global firm. Working in teams, we combine and apply our skills
as effective boardroom advisers, senior consultants, coaches and expert
trainers in most parts of the world. Consequently, we have been recognized
as the leaders in our field for the last ten years.
Our Field of Expertise
We help business leaders, managers and their organizations deal with cross-cultural challenges and dilemmas by actively supporting them in managing the business value of cultural diversity.
Our consulting, training, coaching and (un)learning activities assist leaders, managers and professionals from a wide range of companies to recognize and respect cultural differences in values, attitudes and behavior and to systematically reconcile these differences to realize competitive advantage and secure the future sustainability of their organization.
- We help you deal with cross-cultural challenges and dilemmas. Whether they relate to national or corporate cultures, within your own organization or between companies, you can depend on us.
- Our role is to support organizations to actively manage the business value of cultural diversity. To this end, we have helped many leaders, managers and professionals from primarily Fortune Global 500 companies, via our consulting, training and (un)learning activities.
- We will help you to recognize and respect cultural differences in values, attitudes and behavior.
- We will teach you how to systematically reconcile the cultural differences to your advantage.
- You can expect positive effects to come from win-win outcomes, more
productive cross-cultural relationships, improved bottom line results
and a better reputation.
We work with you at all levels:
- To help develop individuals to improve inter-cultural competence
- To help teams improve their performance by connecting different points of view
- To help organizations increase their effectiveness whether in globalization, through diversity, identity, pre and post-mergers, as well as corporate social responsibility for future sustainability by leveraging the business benefits of value differences.
In summary, we will show you how to make culture work for your business.
Our Approach
Our core philosophy is built on a four step approach:
- Learn to Recognize cultural differences ~ and then
- Learn to Respect different points of view ~ and then
- Learn to Reconcile the dilemmas that results from the tensions between different values (cultures) ~ and then -
- Learn to Realize the business benefits of implementing the reconciliations and embedding a mind set across the organization that continually reconciles dilemmas
This philosophy is common to all our services, whether provided through Celebrity Speakers events, Training, Issue Consulting or longer term Consulting interventions. Depending on the needs of your individuals, teams or organization as a whole, the focus can be on any one or all the above steps.
We have well developed and proven methodologies and toolsets to diagnose all steps to engage the human factor and organization processes for top performance.
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