TTI TRANSCULTURE™ TRAINING INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING is a global multicultural training and consulting organization specialized in providing transculture training, coaching and briefings for working and doing business internationally and domestically in multicultural workplaces and marketplaces.

TTI's training programs include a Canadian workplace culture and communication curriculum for internationally-educated, trained and skilled newcomer immigrants, provided through immigrant serving organizations, occupation-bridging educational institutions, professional regulatory bodies, and for employers of internationally-trained individuals, professionals and tradespeople.

As a full-service, multicultural diversity training, coaching and consulting organization, TTI also provides individualized personal coaching to help immigrants successfully overcome personal, professional, employment, workplace and/or job-related transculture transition challenges to ease and expedite their recruitment, integration, inclusion and career advancement journey.

Working and doing business with culturally-different people is becoming the norm everywhere in this era of labour globalization, increasing workplace cultural diversity, workforce global mobility to satisfy skilled labour shortages worldwide due to a maturing, retiring workforce, and a rising demand for multicultural talent prompted by global industries' consolidations, transformation and rationalization brought on by mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and foreign equity investments.

To work and do business collectively and productively multiculturally with colleagues, clients and partners, it is imperative that domestic and international organizations develop their employees' transcultural diversity knowledge beyond the conventional awareness, sensitivities' and mindset level. They must be empowered with practicable transcultural knowledge and competencies, and develop their skills and the confidence to collectively work and do business in such a milieu.

Transculture competence entails much more than merely having foreign language skills and some experience socializing, working and/or doing everyday business with culturally-different people.

Working and doing business multiculturally/transculturally entail having a well-founded, realistic understanding of the core fundamental differences in diverse cultures' typical work styles and habits, ways of doing business, of communicating, presenting, interacting, correctly interpreting feedback and behaviours, building strong interpersonal relationships, rapport, trust and respect.

TTI Transculture Training International recipients will acquire the know-how, the practical and practicable soft skills, and the confidence to:

• aptly work and do business with culturally-different colleagues, clients and partners
• clearly and accurately communicate, present and interact effectively multiculturally
• lead, engage, manage, motivate and inspire multicultural team members/workforces
• mitigate, conciliate and resolve transculture-rooted workplace challenges and friction
• influence, negotiate and agree on project objectives, deliverables and expectations
• build/strengthen interpersonal work relationships, rapport, business connections and effectiveness among culturally-different colleagues, clients and partners

A lack of transculture knowledge and preparedness training typically often result in experiencing culture shock, perplexity, frustration, anxiety and stress when faced with misunderstanding of communications or incomprehension of unexpected work or business outcomes and the ensuing consequences stemming from insufficient familiarity with transcultural differences.

If a multicultural organization and its employees are unprepared and untrained to systematically address transculture-rooted workplace communication challenges and operational inefficiencies, the purpose, objectives and the expected outcomes of their business endeavours are put at risk.

Transculture-rooted business risks include the loss of strategic contracts, customers, key staff and/or partners; project delays, derailment and/or failure; costs and budget overruns; unrealized, deferred or disappointing revenue, profit, marketshare and/or return on investment expectations.

Experience has shown that organizations relying on domestic or on foreign national employees to provide cultural diversity or transcultural training internally to save costs, end-up disappointed with the outcome. Such personnel typically are not experienced, professional trainers with the requisite pedagogy credentials. They lack the highly-specialized academic grounding, the deep multicultural subject matter knowledge, the experience, and the expertise to proficiently develop comprehensive and impactful curriculum, and deliver effective training and workshop programs.

For additional information about TTI and our transculture training programs, please contact us.

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