The "Global Work Styles Inventory": A Personal Profile of Global Work Styles

Differences in global work styles can result in costly misunderstandings, ineffective meetings, organizational inefficiency and delays in meeting operational deadlines. The Global Work Styles Inventory^TM is a self-validated individual assessment tool that provides a personal work style preference profile relating to eight different, well-established global work styles. It is an assessment tool based on extensive anthropological research and years of global coaching, training, and consulting experience.
 
The Global Work Styles Inventory^TM has been developed as a tool for assessing personal work styles and their implications for successfully working in a global marketplace. Understanding your own personal or group work style is the first step in working effectively across cultures. 

The Global Work Styles Inventory^TM allows individuals and teams to analyze the implications of their personal and/or group work styles and develop action plans to improve specific business and management situations on a global basis. For example the GWSI can help you and your organization to succeed at:

• international business expansion
• global diversity initiatives
• team effectiveness improvement
• more effective leadership development initiatives
• successful cross-cultural negotiation
• improved expatriate assignment success

The Global Work Styles Inventory^TM is a self-administered online assessment, consisting of 96 questions that will take approximately 20 to 30 minutes to complete.  It is continually revalidated to ensure real-time usefulness as an informative and developmental assessment.  It 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 and/or behavioral tendencies of a customer, colleague or co-worker, leading to more mutually beneficial working relationships.

Identifying and understanding yours and another person’s work style preferences can assist you in strategizing how you and that person will behave, think or feel in a given business situation.  Our clients use the Global Work Styles Inventory^TMprimarily to:

• prepare individuals and teams to meet the challenges of global business
• assist managers in leveraging cultural diversity for competitive advantage
• help professionals to develop self-awareness of their own global work styles
• strategize ways to adapt behaviors or processes to improve individual, team and organizational performance
• sensitize team members and coworkers to cultural differences by leveraging a common language to describe global work styles
• compare personal profiles with general country profiles to identify where gaps or differences in global work styles occur
• minimize the use of negative stereotypes when expectations are not met while working across global cultures

The Global Work Styles Inventory^TM costs US$135, payable by credit card, by clicking here.  A full assessment report, a sample of which is available here, is generated immediately after completion of the assessment and may be printed or downloaded after assessment completion.  Larger volume discounts are available to our corporate clients.