East Meets West in Training

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Neal R. Goodman

More and more training and development programs are being exported from the West to Asia with little appreciation or accounting for the fundamental differences between Western and Eastern approaches to learning and development. Lets examine one re... More »

Training Across Time Zones

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Neal R. Goodman

While it is important to keep in mind a number of cultural aspects when training across cultural and geographic areas, the most critical factors are no-brainers: time zones and the differences in time between you and your trainees abroad. These problems are clear, b... More »

Skills to Train Across Cultures

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Neal R. Goodman

Consider the following case: A European company sells a new telephone system to an Asian client with the condition that they will provide one day of on-site training for the equipment. The instructor arrives the night before the training and the next day reviews the use... More »

Culturally Accessible E-Learning: An Overdue Global Business Imperative

Andrea Edmundson

Companies readily embrace e-learning to train globalized workforces, but fail to recognize the impact of cultural differences on the programs success. Leaving out cultural analysis or failing to recognize cultural differences can endanger the success of globalization ef... More »