How we reach transcultural added value
 

"Trust may not be everything,
but without trust, everything is nothing."
 

JPB proposes an innovative and holistic approach to the challenge to implement a "professional management of the non-material reality" in international co-operations. The mentalmerger®-process focuses on identifying the most efficient way of overcoming misunderstandings and utilizing complementary characteristics to reach a common goals within multicultural teams.

It seems so easy… unsuspected nightmares of transcultural interfaces

• Implicit assumptions on many management concepts : incompatible
• Strategy and goals: realistic, feasible, constant vs. global, flexible, ambitious
• Future: controllable if planned vs. unpredictable requiring stress resistance
• Procedures and rules: automatically followed vs. guidelines to be adapted
• Key attribute of success: competence vs. political manoeuvring
• Interpretation of the other’s culturally normal management behaviour: aggression

In which situations can JPB be useful?

• Preparation and integration of mergers and acquisitions
• Change management
• Crisis prevention and crisis management
• Remote project management
• New assignments for individual managers
  

• Mediator: understand and accept the other’s culture
• Catalyst: handle human “soft issues” beyond the politically correct "hard issues"
• Trust builder: identify and cure "emotional viruses" polluting the mental focus
• Eye opener: discover the potential of transcultural added value

Which methods does JPB use?

• Pragmatic and common sense
• Integration of provenly useful elements from the different coaching approaches
• Reliance on cultural differences to obtain permission to access soft issues