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 Worked
with various divisions at ANZ on improving cultural effectiveness
when working with Global Operations
 Design
and delivery of 'Understanding and Working with Australian Culture'
on behalf of Telstra Australia for Engineers from China Unicon -
Cultural Synergies was selected by Telstra to provide the first educational
point of contact for employees of Telstra's Chinese business partner,
China Unicorn assigned to work in Australia. Cultural Synergies designed
a half-day workshop on Australian communication styles and ways of
working for 20 Chinese telecommunications executives who were very
successfully integrated in Telstra's programs. Member of external faculty for Royal Dutch Shell Top 1000 managers Cultural Diversity Leadership Forum - Shell appointed Cultural Synergies as one of 12 external consultants to facilitate diversity engagement workshops for its top 1000 leaders around the world. The workshops were designed to coach leaders to leverage and harness diversity, thereby promoting a more inclusive organisational culture. Following this initiative, Cultural Synergies designed and delivered a series of workshops on ‘Leading Across Cultures'.  These
two-day workshops were developed for the Top 500 managers in Shell Oil Products
(East Zone) throughout the Asia Pacific region. They were intensive, residential
workshops and participants learned more about themselves and their own leadership
and teamwork philosophies, and acquired practical skills and strategies to
develop behavioural flexibility when interacting with people of various cultures.
Since the development of these workshops, Cultural Synergies has been involved
with many Shell projects all over the ‘East Zone'.  Working
with Hewlett Packard executives to manage cross-cultural teams in the Asia-Pacific
region - Cultural Synergies works with executives to increase their
understanding of cultural interactions by exploring key dimensions of culture
relevant to interactions between ‘western' and ‘Asian' cultures.
It also provides executives with the intricate details of the social and business
etiquette found in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Korea, and Japan.  Design
and facilitation of ‘Increasing Your Cross-Cultural Effectiveness' for
the professional staff development curriculum of the University of Melbourne - Cultural Synergies has recently developed a program with the International
Admissions Department at The University of Melbourne, the first point of contact
for overseas students. The program provides theoretical and practical information
that assists employees in developing an appreciation of ‘culture', and
assists in developing competencies to enable staff to deal more effectively
and successfully with prospective students from different regions of the world.  BP
Diversity Initiative 2003 - As an integral part of BP's diversity
initiative in 2003, Cultural Synergies conducted an executive workshop for
the management team in Singapore to explore the diversity issues experienced
at bp, to raise awareness, and to generate strategies to address these issues.
This resulted in Cultural Synergies designing and delivering a workshop titled
‘Building an Inclusive Organisation' for more than 100 staff at BP Singapore.
These workshops implemented the initiatives generated by the executive workshop
and spread awareness of diversity and inclusion among the staff at BP. |
Developing
Global Leaders on how to increase effectiveness when working around
the world for Autoliv, one of the world's leading seatbelt and airbag
manufacturers 
Assisting
IT teams at Sara Lee to move from a domestic to a regional focus
Presented
at the Australian Tertiary Education Managers' Annual Conference
on dealing with Generational Diversity 
