Our Core Services
Cultural Intelligence Workshops
Our Cultural Intelligence (CI) workshops provide the skills and confidence your team needs to interact successfully in any intercultural situation. Find out how culture profoundly influences personal perceptions of reality and behaviors. Also, dig into how cultural differences significantly affect business negotiations, the perception and use of products and services, and the success of vital organizational relationships. We apply research based best practices and intuitive tools to the development of cultural intelligence. In today's global community, cultural intelligence is an essential and critical core competence.
Grow in the four CI competencies
The key to successful intercultural communication and relationship building is proficiency in the four cultural competencies. These include CI Motivation, CI Knowledge, CI Planning and CI Performance. After exploring these research-tested competencies in depth, we integrate that knowledge into your organization's unique intercultural development and problem solving needs.
Avoid embarrassing stereotypes
We all know that people and companies don't behave according to popular opinion. What is less understood is how complex sociocultural systems, unique to every social group and context, influence our behaviors. Extensive research, however, has brought to light certain broad cultural dimensions that provide accurate starting points for intelligently navigating any cultural situation.
Know and compare your unique cultural signature
Signi® addresses the issues that are most relevant to your context. Before every workshop, we conduct an in-depth personalized CI assessment. This way, you discover your cultural signature across the 6 key cultural value dimensions, and measure your cultural intelligence in the four core competencies against international averages. We also asses the felt cultural needs of your organization, and tailor our sessions to your reality.
Innovation Labs
Nowadays, innovation means survival. There are no silver-bullet solutions, and rubber-stamp approaches are boring and short-lived. This is why Signi® applies design thinking to creating solutions, keeping you ahead and relevant in a crowded market.
Design thinking unclutters your starting point and sustains authentic engagement
Design thinking is user-centric and solutions-based. It understands that customers know what products and services they need, as opposed to what “professional” marketers assume they want. The design process is dynamic and interactive, which makes it ideal for navigating diverse spaces, shifting markets and new environments. Its unwavering focus on empathy sets it apart from other problem-solving frameworks. This is why human-centered companies rely on it.
The proven benefits of design thinking
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Develop innovative products that drive revenue and satisfy customers
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Gain the deepest understanding of your customers
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Save your time, money and sweat
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Gain and maintain a competitive edge in your market
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Overcome cognitive stagnation
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Build an innovative team
Professional Culture Coaching
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Cross-cultural living
Living cross-culturally can be exciting and educational. But experience and research show that challenges are real, failure rates are significant, and the cost, both financially and emotionally, can be high if cross-cultural workers and expats are not adequately prepared. Signi consultants have successfully lived as expats. We know how to establish safety, balanced integration and longevity. Let us offer you the training, coaching and resources to assure your families are well taken care of.
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Special projects & mergers.
Some projects require greater time commitment. Signi provides cross-cultural specialists and researchers for special projects and teams. Mergers can also be tricky business. Many of the greatest challenges of mergers pertain to communication breakdowns related to culture. Let Signi provide the culturally experienced voice you need to avoid costly pitfalls.
Quick expert advice
Sometimes you simply need quick advice on a culturally related initiative or challenge. No problem. We are happy to advise on any issue by phone or Skype. If a quick visit to the office works best for you, that works for us.
Long-term contracts.
Some organizations realize that outsourcing a cultural specialist on an annual contract basis best meets their needs. This allows you to have a professional voice 24/7. If you feel like your organization could benefit from the consistency and availability that a contracted consultant can bring to the development of long-term programs, processes, or products, Signi has you covered.