Cultural Navigator: Your Competitive Edge in Global Business
Our online platform provides essential cultural and business information designed to give your organization a competitive edge in global markets. The Cultural Navigator offers a unique learning experience that can be tailored based on your business interests, career path, and customized to your organization’s needs.
It offers essential areas of understanding within a comprehensive corporate language training program.
The platform helps users learn about their own personal cultural preferences and introduces them to the tools needed to communicate and collaborate more effectively with those from diverse backgrounds. This ensures your workforce fosters a culture of diversity and drives business value.
The Cultural Orientations Indicator (COI): Your Assessment Tool
Take the industry-leading, psychometrically validated assessment tool. The COI evaluates your cultural preferences at work and helps you understand how these relate to your thinking style, interaction style, and sense of self. The report is available in 12 languages.
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Comprehensive Features and Expertise
Our extensive knowledge base, spanning over 100 countries and including expert managerial, negotiation, and inclusion research, has been developed by our global network of consultants and researchers. Self-directed research and travel guides cannot match our years of knowledge and experience when it comes to conducting business across borders.
This cultural understanding is essential in the context of a business English course or for any other language.
Global Resources and Coaching
Receive personalized advice and coaching on how to address cultural challenges and collaborate effectively. Includes customized learning path with progress tracking and over 100 detailed country guides.
Adaptable for Your Organization
The platform is optimized for desktops, mobiles, and tablets. It is customized to your organization and designed to empower both employers and employees, fitting learning seamlessly around your organization's needs.
The Cultural Navigator is the ideal tool to help your organization foster a culture of diversity, drive business value, and create strong connections around the world.
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Cultural Navigator: Frequently Asked Questions
The Cultural Navigator is Berlitz's online platform providing essential cultural and business intelligence. By helping employees understand cultural differences and avoid misunderstandings (miscommunication), the tool drives productivity, ensures clearer communication, and fosters more effective collaboration across diverse global teams.
Cultivating cultural awareness at work offers several key benefits: it reduces the risk of miscommunication and conflict, it boosts innovation by integrating diverse perspectives, and it improves team collaboration and cohesion. This ultimately leads to higher employee satisfaction and enhanced global competitiveness.
The Cultural Orientations Indicator (COI) is an industry-leading, psychometrically validated assessment tool. It allows employees to evaluate their personal cultural preferences at work (interaction style, thinking style, sense of self). The results help develop crucial self-awareness and identify potential cultural challenges before they arise.
Yes. The platform is designed for high flexibility. It can be customized to your organization's needs to onboard individual employees, coach senior executives preparing for expatriation, or provide cross-cultural communication strategies to existing teams working on global projects.
Absolutely. The Cultural Navigator provides access to a vast knowledge base, including over 100 detailed country guides. These guides offer specific information on business norms, negotiation protocols, and managerial practices in various regions around the world.
Miscommunication in the workplace is often rooted in unrecognized cultural differences. The Cultural Navigator offers learning paths and targeted coaching to help users decode non-verbal signals and adapt their communication style, thereby reducing misunderstandings and fostering respectful, effective interactions.