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RedBikeHRD incorporates all three Erin Meyer tools, the Country Mapping Tool, the Personal Profile Tool and the Team Mapping Tool, into various cross-cultural and global communication programs.

Meyer wrote her first book, the international-bestselling The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business in 2014. The book represents her collective research data from over thirty different countries and provides a framework for evaluating cultures, along with offering strategies for improving international business success.

She has identified eight scales, each of which is described as a continuum in which the two ends are diametric opposites:

Communicating – Are people low-context or high-context communicators?

Evaluating – When giving negative feedback, do people give it directly or prefer being discreet?

Leading – Are people in groups egalitarian or do they prefer hierarchy?

Deciding – Do people make decisions via consensus or top-down?

Trusting – Do people base trust on how well they know each other or how well they work together?

Disagreeing – Do people address disagreements directly or do they prefer to avoid confrontations?

Scheduling – Do people perceive time as absolute linear points or consider it a flexible range?

Persuading – Do people like specific cases and examples or prefer detailed, holistic explanations?

Creativity and innovation are almost impossible to teach or train. Rather they collectively tend to be the result of organizational willingness to encourage disruption, embrace risk and accept failure, thereby fostering a corporate culture that allows and enables an employee mindset that breaks free of comfort zones and pursues the unknown.

This type of training is best done in a workshop or charrette format that addresses specific challenges with the introduction of frameworks and tools that help guide the activities and output of the session.

Brainstorming models:

• Brainwriting

• Starbursting

• Mind mapping sea of thoughts

• Rolestorming

• Brain netting

• Round robin

• Rapid ideation

• Reverse brainstorming

• Stepladder brainstorming

• Diamond pressure brainstorming

• Brain-story-storming

• Fishbone brainstorming

Design Thinking 5-Step Framework:

1. Empathize

2. Define

3. Ideate

4. Prototype

5. Test

Critical thinking:

• 5 x Why

• Cascading Pros & Cons

• Paul-Elder Framework

• RED Model

• Bloom’s Taxonomy

• The CRAAP Test & SIFT Method

A combination of these frameworks and tools can be utilized to stimulate and generate innovation and problem-solving.

Desing-thinking egg parachute activity

7-Step Decision-Making Framework:

1. Define problem
2. Identify root causes
3. Brainstorm possible solutions/options
4. Consider consequences and mitigating factors for each option
5. Consider organizational ethics and options
6. Gather input and opinions
7. Make decision based on analysis, input and opinions

Biases:

• Borrow from behavioral economics

– Be aware of common biases:

• Confirmation bias
• Halo effect
• Dunning-Kruger Effect
• Hindsight bias
• Ageism
• Contrast
• Courtesy bias
• Optimism bias
• Pessimism bias
• Negativity bias
• Horn effect
• Backfire effect
• Availability heuristic
• Declinism
• False consensus effect
• Beauty bias
• Attentional bias
• Gender bias
• Fundamental attribution bias
• Barnum effect
• Sunk cost fallacy
• Recency bias
• Anchoring bias
• Name bias
• Correspondence bias
• The curse of knowledge
• The belief bias
• Self-serving bias
• The backfire effect
• The Barnum Effect
• Groupthink
• The framing effect
• Fundamental attribution error
• Just-world hypothesis
• In-group bias
• The placebo effect
• The bystander effect
• Eactance
• The spotlight effect

Our entire team have been expats so we all understand, appreciate and embrace both the thrills and challenges of living overseas.

We are licensed to assess and debrief:

• Facet5 & TeamScape

• HRDQ Personality & Leadership Types

• Enneagram

• TotalSDI

• TKI

Our Biz Bootcamp series covers the key financial and management skills necessary for those aspiring to senior management, especially for those with more technical experience and/or limited business backgrounds.

Corporate Finance & Accounting

• Basic bookkeeping & accounting

• Financial reporting

  • P&L Statement

  • Cash Flow Statement

  • Balance Sheet

• Financial analysis

• Budget planning & forecasting

• Cash flow management

• Capital generation & financing

  • Financial capital

  • Human capital

  • Relationship capital

  • Intellectual capital

Security Analysis

• Fundamental analysis

  • Overall financial health of company

  • Management quality and competence

  • Competitive advantage(s)

  • Industry trends

  • Growth potential

• Technical analysis

  • Technical charts and indicators

  • Support and resistance levels

  • Trend assessment

  • Market psychology

• Quantitative analysis

  • What if? scenarios

  • White swans vs. black swans

• Risk assessment and mitigation

  • Market risk

  • Credit risk

  • Liquidity risk

Key Management Frameworks

• VUCA/BANI/RUPT/TUNA

• PESTEL Analysis

• SWOT Analysis

• TOWS Matrix

• Boston Box Growth-Share Matrix

• 7-S Framework

• Porter’s Five Forces

These can be mixed-and-matched into a program or delivered as individual mini-modules.

Please do note that the Corporate Finance & Accounting and Security Analysis content inquire one of our Series 7-licensed trainers to please inquire about availability.

Management Frameworks; Corporate Finance & Accounting; Security Analysis

Managing Self, Others & Teams: This program introduces the skill sets required to drive productivity, set expectations and create a healthy work-life balance for yourself, your direct reports and your team.