International Organization Development

“The bottom line for leaders is that if they do not become conscious of the culture in which they are embedded, those cultures will manage them. Cultural understanding is desirable for all of us, but essential to leaders if they are to lead.” – Edgar Schein, Professor of Management, M.I.T.

When organizations face change in the international context, they call Charis. Charis is one of the few organizations to combine international business, organization development and intercultural communication to address the complexity and agility needed in today’s global business arena. Our international organization development practice can “take the pulse” of the organization with multilingual Employee Surveys and focus groups. After assessing strategic or operational gaps, we partner with clients to implement strategy in these areas: offshoring or outsourcing; introducing new work processes; building relationships and communicating direction in joint ventures, integrating cross-border acquisitions or mergers; hiring, integration or reduction of workforces; project management; and building high performing global teams.

Global Leadership Development
Charis builds organizational change-readiness and global leadership competencies for next-generation leaders. Please see our Managing Global Teams, Global Leader Competencies and Leading Change Across Borders programs.

Global Teams
New team processes, communication, trust-building and leadership are required when working in globally dispersed teams. Charis training and teambuilding can give global teams the advantages of world class performance. Please see our Managing Global Teams program.

Assessments and Surveys
Our consultants are skilled in conducting customized interviews, focus groups, assessments and surveys. In addition, Charis is a licensed provider of The International Profiler™ and Team Trust Indicator™, psychometric assessments to gauge international effectiveness.

We welcome you to contact us at Charis Intercultural Training at info@chariscorp.com