Written Briefing range extends to 25 countries and regions

With the addition this Spring of two new briefings, Culturewise's popular range of written Business-Culture Briefings has now expanded to cover 25 countries and regions including Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, The Czech Republic, France, Germany, Gulf States, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Scandinavia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and the USA.

Each one of our 25 briefings provides a concise and easy-to-read insiders view of the key assumptions, beliefs and etiquette that characterise business and commerce in the country in question. At just 15 to 25 pages in length each briefing is attractively produced and easy-to-read. In addition briefings are written by an acknowledged expert on the country in question and are edited and revised every 6 months in order to keep them as up to date as possible.

Successful organisations as diverse as Ashurst, Barclays plc, BSI Global, DTZ Holdings plc, Fidelity Investments, Flag Telecom, GKN plc, LGC, QBE Insurance Group, The Northern Trust Company and VOCA Limited already carry Culturewise Business-Culture Briefings as reference or learning materials on their corporate intranets.

Now for an annual fee of just GBP500 + VAT you could offer people right across your organisation full access to all 25 of our current Business-Culture briefings, either stored on your corporate intranet or via a password-protected area on our website. The annual licence fee allows your people to print out as many copies of the briefings as they wish and to receive all newly-published briefings and six-monthly updates to current briefings without additional charge*.

For more information on annual licences call John Cutler or Adam Butterfield at Culturewise now on + 44 (0) 20 7403 9525.

Single briefings are also available for purchase via by clicking on the ‘Publishing’ option on our website.  Payments can be made by all major Credit and Debit cards.

* Terms and conditions apply to all annual licences.

Culturewise Joins Forces with Helix Training

Culturewise is delighted to have joined forces with Helix UK Limited to offer an open, full-day interactive cross-cultural training workshop focusing on French and German business cultures. Working with France and Germany - Essentials is designed for individuals or teams with a need to work, establish productive relationships and communicate successfully during face-to-face or remote contact with clients, colleagues or counterparts from either of these countries.

Helix UK Limited is best known for their wide prospectus of IT, personal development and technical insurance training courses designed to improve business, management, personal and IT skills. This will be the company's first offering in the area of cross-cultural training and is being marketed to Helix's extensive database of Financial Services and Insurance sector clients. However the workshop is open to delegates from all backgrounds and organisations.   

The workshop will take place at Helix's conveniently located City of London offices on 19th July 2006 and costs just GBP250 + VAT per delegate. For more information or to book your space visit Helix's website at http://www.learnit-helix.com/ or call +44 (0) 20 7247 8888

Special Offer On Cross-Cultural Training Manual

Culturewise is pleased to offer all readers of our Spring 2006 newsletter a special 15% discount on The Cross-Cultural Communication Trainer's Manual. Written by Culturewise's Operations Director, and Published by training specialist Gower Publishing, the two-volume Cross-cultural Communication Trainer’s Manual provides a complete toolkit for the trainer/facilitator needing to design and deliver cross- or intercultural training for diverse audiences including business people, students, social workers, police officers, public service and health care workers. The Manual is ideal for corporate trainers, consultants and advisers, public-sector trainers, consultants and advisers, university and business school lecturers and advisers and teachers at language schools.

To qualify for your 15% discount all you need to do is order your copies of the Training Manual from Culturewise before 1st July 2006. For more information call John Cutler now on + 44 (0) 20 7403 9525, or email him directly on john.cutler@culturewise.net.
 

Australia Quiz Answers

1. True. By the 1950s it had dropped back to 6th place and by 1990 to 18th, though by 2005 it had climbed back to 8th place.
2. 20 million. Australia has a population of just over 20 million people in a country not much smaller than the contiguous 48 United States.
3. 1%.
4. False. Australia is in fact a highly urbanised nation with over half of its population living in just five cities, and almost 85% living in urban areas.
5. 5%. The Australian economy is, in fact, based overwhelmingly on services which make up close to 80% of output (a higher figure than in most other developed countries).
6. False. Currently, Australia has the second longest working hours in the OECD (after South Korea) , however on current trends the nation will soon have the longest.
7. 25% of the Australian workforce was born overseas, with 15% coming from non-English speaking backgrounds. More than 40% of Australians were either born overseas or have a parent who was born overseas.
8. 5%. One million Australians out of a total of twenty million live overseas.

To buy your copy of the Australian Business-Culture Briefing click on the link to the Culturewise Shop at the top of the page.