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ARGONAUT™ An online tool bringing better results from international activity Are your key people as effective overseas as they are at home? Are you leveraging the benefits of a culturally diverse workforce? Do your clients and partners recognise you as truly internationally savvy? Are you capturing new markets swiftly enough? Do you have tools to minimise time lost through intercultural problems? To stay ahead in a globalising professional services field, you need to actively manage your cross-cultural competencesfor improved: - Global thinking - Time to performance - Organisational culture - Employee effectiveness - Knowledge management - Value chain partnerships How does Argonaut work and who should use it? Argonaut creates a personal cultural profile and analyses the perceived gap between the user and the target culture, as well as numerous other cultures. Argonaut offers practical knowledge of specific cultures and invites users to share their own cultural experiences. It creates excellent personalised material for training and coaching. It can benefit individuals who are managing across cultures, people who experience culture clash and seek to resolve cross-cultural dilemmas, multi-cultural teams wanting to maximise the benefits of their intercultural diversity, leaders who seek to inspire and command international enterprises, merging organisations identifying intercultural risk factors. For additional information about Argonaut click here.

Develop personal strategies for international success in: Planning Deadlines and timing Teamworking Leadership Organisation Motivation and initiative Goals and results Problem-solving Privacy issues Taking control Communication style Conflict resolution Learn more about cultures currently featured in Argonaut Australia Austria Belgium Brazil Bulgaria Canada China Denmark Finland France Germany Hungary India Ireland Italy Japan Korea Mexico The Netherlands New Zealand Nigeria Norway Pakistan Portugal Russia Singapore Spain Sweden Switzerland UK USA Use Argonaut features Self-assessment (20 minutes) Graphical personal profile Group and organisational analysis Practical cultural information Resources for project managers Knowledge sharing facility New situational tutorial Contact CBI CBI Headquarters 44 Kensington Square London W8 5HP United Kingdom +44 207 460 3493 p +44 207 937 7268 f http://www.coghillbeery.com For general inquiries, contact the office.