Working with Cultural Difference

Working with Cultural Difference

Cross Cultural Consultants’ Working with Cultural Difference is a training course intended for individuals, companies and teams working either long-term or short-term in a cross cultural environment.

This course specifically assists people to better understand, work and communicate with Aboriginal people across a number of contexts and settings. The principals for working cross culturally can then be applied across other non-western cultures.

The Working with Cultural Difference course has also been delivered to large areas of the Australian mainstream public sector, with high rates of success and positive participant feedback.

Working with Cultural Difference Outcomes

Cross Cultural Consultants have worked to make the Working with Cultural Difference course a useful training tool that can be referred to and built upon over the participant’s working life. Like all of the CCC courses, Working with Cultural Difference is based on a series of learning outcomes and is made up of a number of individual modules.

In particular, participants of the Working with Cultural Difference course will:

Explore
Explore key areas of cultural difference between the core values of their own home cultures and Aboriginal cultures
Develop
Develop a knowledge of the important differences between Aboriginal and Anglo-Australian manners, communication styles, and rules of sensitive communication
Identify
Identify some of the potential areas of miscommunication that arise between the cultures, and how these might be addressed and in some cases avoided
Discuss
Discuss why mainstream Australian cultures and Aboriginal perspectives of contact history are so fundamentally different, while outlining major historic periods and landmarks in that shared history

Tailored Course Options

Cross Cultural Consultant’s Working with Cultural Difference course is open to customisation and can be tailored to individual client needs. Our team is happy to provide specific assistance on the best way to tailor the course to suit you.

In general, the Working with Cultural Difference training is offered as a ½ day Overview, a 1-day Introduction, and a 2-day Exploration, with any of the following modules:

Culture
What it is, why people need it, and how it changes individual perspective
Models of Cultural Difference
How cultural difference can be observed and understood
Rapport and Networks
Core differences between methods of communication and network growth between mainstream Australia and Indigenous Australia
Intercultural Communication
Key concepts for effective and successful communication across different cultural frameworks

History
An overview of significant historical periods of Australia’s history, and the different ways respective cultures perceive them
Diversity and Cultural Change
Methods that cultures might use to embrace diversity, and the importance of manageable cultural change
Language
The importance of languages and identity, and how culture connects with this
Stereotypes
Analysing cultural ‘shortcuts’ that can cloud individual and group judgement and how to combat them

Pre-Tailored Course Options

After more than two decades of presenting Working with Cultural Difference, Cross Cultural Consultants’ trainers have developed three distinct methods of training to suit a variety of client needs. These are the 1/2-Day Overview, the 1-Day Introduction and the 2-Day Exploration, each of which explores the nuances of working with cultural differences in a more detailed fashion.

Learn about how these courses differ by contacting us now.

Materials

Cross Cultural Consultants provides all participants of the Working with Cultural Difference course with a comprehensive workshop handbook. This booklet includes readings and references for participants, as well as exercises for personal and group use.

As always if you have any questions about the courses, about Cross Cultural Consultants, or about any of the services we provide, please get in touch.

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