Building Cultural Competence: Innovative Activities and Models

Her work has spanned more than eighteen countries, involved working with individuals from over fifty nations, and been the subject of media worldwide, including CNN's Business Traveler and the Gulf News. Kate helps individuals and teams to increase effectiveness, reduce miscommunication, and build stronger working relationships. She is ce

Best purchase of 2013, Great value, Awesome Resource Vanessa I'm exceptionally pleased with this book. There is an endless amount of great resources for intercultural training and consulting. I would even say that if you are an expat or international traveler or someone with an interest in this field, its a great book to get a taste for the wide range of topics the field covers. It also has a lot of exercises that are easily done as an individual and can provide great insight into your experiences of travel and crossing cultures.Be. Hartmut Ackermann said well structured work for communicators. This book became my bible in working with groups and couples on issues of cultural communication and integration! I would never miss this well written and structured work of Kate Berardo. There are also suggestion how to bring variety in the different exercises and training situations. The overview at the beginning of the book is of great help when one has to make a fast selection according to a certain topic or level of difficulty needed.Thanks a lot for this work!. Andrea said This book is full of excellent activities designed to bring cross-cultural awareness to any group. This book is full of excellent activities designed to bring cross-cultural awareness to any group who uses it. I purchased it specifically to use in the Cross-Cultural Psychology class I'm teaching and the exercises have been the highlight of our time together. Thank you!!

For HR directors, corporate trainers, college administrators, diversity trainers and study abroad educators, this book provides a cutting-edge framework and an innovative collection of ready-to-use tools and activities to help build cultural competencefrom the basics of understanding core concepts of culture to the complex work of negotiating identity and resolving cultural differences.Building Cultural Competence presents the latest work in the intercultural field and provides step-by-step instructions for how

Michael Paige, author of Education for the Intercultural Experience and Professor of International and Intercultural Education)“A new book of training activities is always welcome, but this volume offers something more: a thoughtful, careful analysis of how to design and execute relevant cultural training. You get the toolkit, in short, as well as guidance from some of the master builders.” (Craig Sorti, author, trainer and consultant in intercultural communications) . “This book brings creativity and innovativeness to training tools, models, and activities. The cry for intercultural competence becomes louder at a time when we don't have to travel to find an increasingly diverse population, an