Cross-cultural Organizational and Financial Training

Do you want to engage with people from cultures other than your own in your training events? Are you looking to deliver training that is memorable and transformative? Do you want all your participants to be fully committed to the learning process?

Trainers entering new cultures can find it difficult to build rapport, and to deliver sessions that are culturally appropriate. Participants may be not be using their first language to learn. All these questions can be challenging. However, training cross-culturally offers great opportunities to find creative ways of learning.

Cross-Cultural Organizational and Financial Training offers a clear and accessible way of designing, planning, delivering, and evaluating, when training across cultures. It suggests participatory approaches to training and learning which can be most effective cross-culturally.

With new insights from anthropology, this book offers practical tools to understand different cultural approaches to learning. It uses 10 countries as examples, to help trainers prepare for similar scenarios wherever they are. There is a toolkit of activities, and helpful responses and tips for trainers.

This is an essential guide for those working in the international development sector, and trainers from government, commercial, faithbased, and non-profit sectors.

John Cammack is a highly experienced practitioner, consultant and trainer in the international non-profit sector. He has worked, and delivered training, in over 60 countries, and has conducted innovative research with a wide range of trainers and practitioners working in many cultures.

Other books by John Cammack include: Communicating Financial Management with Non-finance People: A Manual for International Development Workers, Basic Accounting for Community Organizations and Small Groups: A Practical Guide, and Building Financial Management Capacity for NGOs and Community Organizations: A Practical Guide, all published by Practical Action Publishing.

Table of Contents

1. The challenges of cross-cultural training and how to respond

2. Understanding other cultures

3. Making your training work

4. Practical techniques for training cross-culturally

5. Cross-cultural financial training

6. Training examples in specific countries (Bangladesh; Cambodia; Ethiopia; Ghana; India; Jordan; Kenya; Pakistan; UK; Zambia)

7. Examples of cross-cultural training

8. Training cross-culturally - frequently asked questions

9. Toolkits (Introductory activities; Energizing activities; Concluding activities)

10. Published and online resources