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Our team members have created many products in addition to the Cultural Detective® series that you may find useful to your purposes.
Communication Highwire: Leveraging the Power of Diverse Communication Styles. Click on the logo or title to order. "Beyond Valuing to LEVERAGING Diversity..." A practical book including 4 models, 37 stories, and 26 reproducible activities grounded in theory for using differences at work, in communities, or at home. Authored by Dianne Hofner Saphiere, Barbara Kappler Mikk, and Basma Ibrahim DeVries. Published by Intercultural Press. US$34.95."
Ecotonos: A Multicultural Problem-Solving Simulation. A powerful and extremely adaptable simulation, Ecotonos breaks the usual stereotypes and barriers. Participants improve their skills and strategies for making decisions and solving problems in groups with sometimes conflicting priorities. Ecotonos can be used multiple times with the same people by selecting a new problem and different variables, with each replay offering new and different cross-cultural perspectives. Eight to fifty participants form three groups and create their own cultures. Participants begin to solve a problem in their monocultural groups, then mingle to continue problem solving in multicultural groups. The simulation and debriefing require a minimum of two hours. The debriefing includes the highly effective method of process mapping. Ecotonos comes with an instruction manual, cultural name tags, 30 sets of rule cards, three prewritten case studies and three team tasks. Authored by Dianne Hofner Saphiere, published by Intercultural Press. US$195.00. Unfortunately, the publisher has completely sold out of the second edition of Ecotonos. We are updating the material and repackaging the game so that it is more portable. Please check back to order the third edition soon!
Redundancia: A Foreign Language Simulation. Requires 10 minutes to conduct and about 30 to debrief. Participants experience speaking a language nonfluently: how it affects one's ability to stay focused and connected with the listener, and one's feelings of competence and confidence. Participants also experience listening to second language speakers: their own tendencies to help or to become distracted. Observers note the speaker's nonverbal communication. Extremely powerful. Read reviews of Redundancia. Read customer comments on Redundancia.
US$85.00 for a Starter Kit, including Facilitator Manual and 20 User DiscoveryGuides, all you'll need to get started with 20 participants. Click on the link to order.
US$24.95 for additional sets of 20 DiscoveryGuides. Click on the link to order extra sets for use with more participants.
Shinrai: Building Trusting Relationships with Japanese Colleagues. Click on the logo or title to order. Shinrai is a high quality audio CD and 24-page booklet that helps busy executives build lasting and fruitful business relationships in Japan, and with Japanese colleagues. The approach is a combination of cultural insights and relationship-building phrases. Learn Japanese common sense, which may be vastly different from that which you were raised. Develop comfort with several high-impact phrases in Japanese, not "standard" phrases, but phrases that truly show your sincerity and make a difference. Whether you travel to Japan on business, work via phone and email with Japanese, or live and work in Japan, this CD will improve your productivity and effectiveness in your day to day dealings. US$39.95, with volume discounts available. Read reviews of Shinrai.
Success Strategies, a new book with chapters by Cultural Detective authors Dianne Hofner Saphiere and Kathleen Curran, as well as Warren Bennis, Brian Tracey, and Marjorie Blanchard, contains chapters on both intercultural business effectiveness and diversity. US$19.95. Contact us about volume discounts.
Yan-koloba. A very entertaining and engaging teamwork game based on a folkloric game of West Africa. Package includes a training video, music cassette, booklet, wood blocks and player pads. Click on the appropriate link to order: US$119.95 corporate edition. US$99.95 school edition.
Au Contraire: Figuring Out the French. For anyone involved in interactions with the French, whether in business or government, as a student or armchair devotee of crossing cultures, Au Contraire! is a book that unearths the often invisible cultural forces that govern behavior. Authored by Cultural Detective: France authors Gilles Asselin and Ruth Mastron, published by Intercultural Press. Click on the title for more information or to order.
Business Etiquette 101 – 30 Absolutely, Never Evers For Business, Dining & First Impressions
This handy booklet, authored by Cultural Detective: Generational Harmony co-author Gretchen Neels, focuses on the basics for new professionals, and those who may need a refresher, on what’s acceptable and what’s not in the workplace. Present your absolute best self by following such advice as: Absolutely, never ever show too much skin. If you would wear it to the club, don’t wear it to the office. This includes exposed tummies, arms, legs and of course, cleavage.
Business Etiquette 102 – 30 Certainly, Always Guidelines for Interviewing, Networking & Meetings
More candid and on-target advice to help beginners and veterans alike navigate the unwritten code of corporate protocol and good manners. Guidance is given for the job interviewer/interviewee, the reluctant networker, and the meeting-phobic. Below is an excerpt from the networking section: Certainly, always look to establish a long-term professional relationship. That’s when true networking occurs. Do this through revealing your expertise in your chosen field and consistently presenting your upstanding character. Authored by Cultural Detective: Generational Harmony co-author Gretchen Neels.
Diversophy. Learning games on over forty cultures, produced by George Simons, a prolific Cultural Detective author. Diversophy complements Cultural Detective®; the latter provides deep insight, the former provides behaviors and dos/don'ts. Click on the title for more information or to order.
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