The Global Work Styles InventoryTM (GWSI) is an individual assessment tool that provides the participant with an enlightening personal profile in terms of eight distinctly different global work styles. The GWSI is a self-evaluation instrument based upon extensive anthropological research, the work of noted international authors as well as twelve years of global training and consulting experience.

The GWSI was developed as a tool for assessing personal work styles and their implications for working globally…successfully. Understanding your own personal work styles is the first step in working across cultures. Differences in global work styles can result in miscommunication, ineffective meetings, excess expense, international expansion failure, and delays in meeting deadlines.

The GWSI allows individuals and teams to analyze the implications of their personal or group work styles and develop action plans to improve specific business and management situations on a global basis. For example, the GWSI helps you and/or your organization to successfully:

• Improve global leadership development
• Increase global human capital alignment
• Raise global team performance
• Develop clear knowledge of foreign marketplaces
• Understand and respond to business unit performance roadblocks
• Enhance global diversity initiatives
• Negotiate across cultures
• Greatly increase the success of overseas assignments

The GWSI is an Internet based assessment that takes approximately 30 minutes to complete and focuses on general preferences, not behaviors or competencies. The GWSI provides a profile of your personal preferences along a continuum of 8 global work styles. The results allow you to compare your preferences with the preferences of a customer, colleague, competitor or co-worker leading to dramatically improved individual and business results.

The Global Work Styles Inventory can be used for these and other purposes:

1. To understand the impact of culture in global business
2. To prepare individuals and teams to meet the challenges of global business
3. To assist managers in leveraging cultural diversity for competitive advantage
4. To develop self-awareness of your own work styles
5. To greatly improve cross-cultural and international business, financial and competitive results
6. To strategize ways to adapt behaviors or processes to improve team effectiveness and performance
7. To minimize the use of negative stereotypes or judgments when working across organizations or cultures
8. To sensitize team members and coworkers by leveraging a common language to describe work style and cultural differences in an increasingly global economy
9. To diagram your personal profile and compare it with general country profiles to show gaps or differences in global work style preferences
10. To identify those global work styles where differences are at their greatest requiring adaptation for individual, team and organizational success

For a sample Global Work Styles InventoryTM assessment report, Click here.
To complete the Global Work Styles InventoryTM assessment, Click here

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