Our Position on Interventions

KD Conseil believes that individuals and teams are best developed through addressing real life business challenges. Our experience proves that it is possible to adapt to other cultures without having to give up one's own cultural practices and values.

Our approach integrates coaching and advisory services applied to simulated work sessions that allow participants to tackle relevant business issues. We focus on developing competence around knowledge, with reflection on practice and dialogue.

Through this approach, individuals apply themes and concepts in real time, ensuring a more realistic learning model. Our aim is to coach participants as they become multicuturally competent.

The 4 steps of training in interpersonal intercultural skills:

  1. Self-Awareness
    Identifying the characteristics and content of one's own national, professional and organizational culture as well as style of management and preference of being managed.

  2. Awareness of Others 
    Recognizing the components of culture (how time, space, hierarchical relationships are handled).
    Noting the importance of the individual and the group, the coherence between stated values and actual behaviour.

  3. Adaptation strategies
    Adapting one's individual behaviour to better allow interface with other cultures
    Negotiating a way of working with the "other" that takes into account the comfort level and efficiency of all parties in the relationship

  4. Applying it in Key Situations.