Cross-cultural training helps executives, on-site managers, marketers and sales people to understand the basic of local cultures and the implications for communicating with non-English-speaking clients or staff. Cross-cultural training can improve both internal and external communications.
Internal: Effective cross-cultural training encourages appropriate interpersonal skills and behaviours within a diverse workforce and helps avoid the following: • Communication problems that can result in hostile and unproductive behaviour • Misinterpretation of work procedures, leading to errors, frustration and low morale /Cross-cultural training helps improve team morale, productivity and overall business performance by teaching executives and sales teams: • How to get in touch with a new market whose first language is not English or German
Cross Cultural/Ethnic Web Design A good multicultural advertising, marketing or communication campaign requires careful planning and strategy development. You will need to consider every components of the project: • Development research • Activities formulation • Pilot testing • Material development • Outcome measures • Evaluation • Multilingual Website
Multi-Lingual Websites: • Over 230 million people world-wide speak a language other than English on the Internet. • Therefore, you will increase your presence in the world market by providing your web content in other languages. • Website translation or web localisation is not a simple job. You need to work closely with your web manager and translators to make sure the content is relevant and culturally appropriate. • You don't need to translate everything on your website into other languages but the translation of the most important pages will increase your reach. • Don't just rely on auto-translation software as the quality of translation can vary. • EuroAfricaCentral Network /Ezehweb Design will assist you by using our Adapted Cultural Communication Auditing (ACCA) to ascertain your special needs / Target Audience (TA) and finally, a content management system which allows you to update your site and achieve the above goals in a most cost effective way. Our Training Workshops are also meant to prepare you for the challenges of reaching your target bweb users via Multi-Lingual web presence. If you are contemplating a future, culturally, adapted website for your users, please contact us now or please click here to access our Multi-Cultural Project site.