Culture Coach Online

A self-paced interactive cultural learning platform to help your employees develop cultural agility at work and abroad.

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What is Culture Coach Online?

At home and abroad, your people collaborate every day with colleagues of various backgrounds and cultures. The Culture Coach Online learning platform takes them on a deep dive into better ways to work with people across cultures.

They’ll learn the soft and hard skills they need to understand and communicate with those who are different than them: whether across departments or across the world.

Who is it for?

  • Expatriates preparing for international relocations
  • Short-term business travelers
  • Spouses and partners
  • Remote workers
  • Anyone working in a cross-cultural team

How Culture Coach Helps

Develop Your Leaders

Research shows that more globally aware people are more productive and most likely to become strong leaders.

Strengthen Your Teams

When your team understands each other, they'll trust each other more deeply and collaborate better.

Prepare Your Expatriates

Prepare your people for short- or long-term assignments, helping them settle into any new culture smoothly.

Increase Team Productivity

When cultural understanding increases, so does collaboration.

Trusted by top global companies.

Increase your team's cultural agility.

Get started with Culture Coach and give your team a boost of productivity, empathy, and confidence.
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Modules

Modules take users through a custom learning plan based on their cultural learning needs, from cultural agility, international assignment support, diversity and inclusion to daily collaboration.

Essential mindset shifts to prepare for your journey

  • Importance of Cultural Agility
  • Cultural Agility & Willingness
  • Cultural Agility & Self Awareness
  • Cultural Agility & Country Knowledge
  • Cultural Agility & Adaptability

Learn what culture is and how it impact people, relationships, and nations

  • Understanding Culture
  • Defining Culture
  • Cultural Norms
  • Cultural Iceberg & Visible Culture
  • Invisible Culture
  • Cultural Perspectives

Uncover your cultural preferences and assumptions

Discover how you cultural preferences compares to those of your travel destination or your colleagues. See how you compare when it comes to:

  • Individual vs. Group
  • Hierarchical vs. Participative
  • Need for Certainty vs. Tolerance for Ambiguity
  • Achievement vs. Quality of Life
  • Long-Term vs Short Term
  • Indulgence vs. Restraint

Learn about different countries’ basic cultural and social environments

Generate a report on cultural information in your destination:

  • Religious setting
  • Major cities and why they’re important
  • Punctuality
  • Titles/names
  • Gestures/body language
  • Personal conduct/faux pas
  • Social customs/building relationships
  • Alcohol and drinking
  • Gifts
  • Tipping

Get helpful information about any country

Learn about any destination before you go by generating a report on whatever topics you need help with:

  • Housing
  • Safety & health
  • Education
  • Social Life
  • Getting Around
  • Getting Connected

Emotionally prepare to move abroad

International assignments are an emotional journey. Learn what emotions to expect so you can have a more rewarding experience abroad.

  • The Cultural Adjustment Curve
  • Identifying Culture Shock
  • Adaptation

Uncover the hidden values, beliefs, and expectations behind communication.

Learn how different cultures impact how people interpret verbal and nonverbal messages.

  • Interpreting Messages Across Cultures
  • Non-Verbal Communication
  • Verbal Communication and Language Differences
  • Context of Communication
  • Direct & Indirect Styles of Communication
  • Patterns of Communication

Learn the necessary skills for conducting business in or alongside other cultures

Master the art of respecting local culture while maintaining your own values and identity.

  • What is Style Switching?
  • Your Core Values
  • Examples of Style Switching in the Workplace
  • Skills for Style Switching

Prepare for the personal and professional elements of coming back home

Returning home can be as challenging as expatriating. This modules helps prepare you for the emotional journey ahead.

  • Reflection questions
  • Practical steps to prepare
  • Emotional expectations

Earn professional DEI certification

Test your cultural learning and earn a certificate of completion.

  • 48-question self-evaluation
  • Scores around 15 key DEI competencies
  • Personalized learning path to improve further

Learn the culture of 150+ global destinations.

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South America North America Africa Asia Europe Oceania

South America

Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Paraguay
Peru
Uruguay
Venezuela

North America

Bahamas
Barbados
Canada
Canada – Calgary
Canada – Montreal
Canada – Ottawa
Canada – Toronto
Canada – Vancouver
Cayman Islands
Channel Islands
Costa Rica
Dominican Rep
El Salvador
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Mexico
Mexico-Monterrey
Nicaragua
Panama
Puerto Rico
Trinidad/Tobago
USA

Africa

Algeria
Angola
Botswana
Cameroon
Cote D’Ivoire
D.R. Congo
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Ghana
Kenya
Liberia
Libya
Lithuania
Malawi
Mauritius
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Nigeria
Republic of Congo
Rwanda
Sierra Leone
South Africa
Tanzania
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Asia

Afghanistan
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Brunei
Cambodia
China
China: Beijing
China: Guangzhou
China: Shanghai
China: Tianjin
East Timor
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kuwait
Lebanon
Macau (China)
Malaysia
Mongolia
Myanmar
Oman
Pakistan
Philippines
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
South Korea
Sri Lanka
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Thailand
Turkey
UAE
Uzbekistan
Vietnam

Europe

Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Cyprus
Croatia
Czech Rep.
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Gibraltar
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Isle of Man
Italy
Latvia
Luxembourg
Malta
Monaco
Montenegro
Netherlands
North Macedonia
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Serbia
Slovak Rep
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Ukraine
United Kingdom

Oceania

Australia
Falklands
Fiji
Guam
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea

Culture Coach will help your team...

01

Understand

how culture impacts living and working abroad, and why understanding cultural differences is important to successful cross-cultural communication.

02

Identify

the phases of the adaptation process, as well as symptoms and strategies for overcoming culture shock.

03

Adapt

and adjust to a different cultural environment.

04

Define

their individual cultural preferences, and how they can impact interacting with others.

05

Recognize

business practices and communication style differences affected by culture.

06

Become

more culturally agile when interacting and communicating.

About Living Abroad

Moving employees abroad or preparing them for global business trips? We know how complex and exhausting it can be.

That’s why we offer best-in-class destination information and cultural training for the world’s biggest and best companies.

Global mobility experts at 400 of the Fortune 1000, plus dozens of world-class relocation companies, rely on us to give their transferees the latest and most accurate destination information.

With Living Abroad, your people aren’t just informed – they’re prepared.

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