What makes the difference in successful international management? A manager needs to learn how to apprehend a project in all its complexity, dealing with technical, operational and human management issues. His mastery of such projects is measured by how well he can leverage talent and performance on his team. Being able to reframe and adapt practices and processes to fit changing contexts demonstrates how ready he is to become an exemplary leader, getting his team to be fully aware of how to realize its potential.

An integral part of that awareness is decoding and exploring intercultural behaviors in unknown territory, gaining latitude in managing under difficult conditions. Managers learn to anticipate risks and to federate teams around a shared vision. They integrate a strong meta-position and appreciate ways of thriving in new, changing environments. An international manager is responsible to his local team, yet represents the institutional values of his corporation. Reconciling each dimension requires a mature, sound attitude and key management acumen in anticipating and resolving potential conflicts.

A corporation strives to instill that professional pride in its young managers, enriching their careers with growing challenges so that they thrive in meeting both performance and management goals. This is the quality of leadership companies require to sustain strategic success.

CEPIG's offer is based on sound analysis and engineering of value-added objectives. We use our experience to position a program properly, where it will achieve greatest impact and drive a manager's development forward. A key question Human Resources managers need to ask is whether to

• Implement a management skills development solution: in our management foundation training in both French and English (described elsewhere on our website), we respond affirmatively to developing skills young managers need to assume their operational roles with a business-like attitude.

• Or take into account issues that require greater awareness and the capability to work in cross-cultural environments in a conducive, professional way.

Our international programs and coaching focus clearly on the hard, yet essential challenges of managing diversity and team dynamics. Managers develop confidence and awareness in their abilities to build solutions and motivate their teams. We work with managers so that they become aware of "invisible signs" hidden in a new culture. Handling differences in perception of issues becomes second nature as they discover new approaches to solving problems. They become dynamic communicators, leading change processes their company identifies as mission-critical.

Our training and coaching experience allows us to provide clients with in-depth, quality solutions adapted to fast-changing, performance-driven work environments abroad. Our consultants undergo intensive training themselves on key learning strategies, insights and tools to reinforce our interventions. Our team brings to each project, whether it is a management seminar or a coaching mission, a cross-cultural approach to provide your company's international talent with a fresh outlook.

Our consultants engineer leadership and strategic seminar programs to enable key players to acquire an institutional perspective, manage change processes and to drive success internationally.

Team dynamics:

• Provide teams with insights about who they are and their interactions with others

• Develop new cultural management awareness and skills in team dynamics

Change processes:

• Lead a cross-cultural team through strategic changes

• Identify and federate talent

• Exemplify and cultivate key behavior and attitudes

• Capitalize on new solutions and opportunities

It is essential that the scope of the mission be carefully defined and clearly understood by all of the stakeholders involved: the individual to be coached, the coach, the HR representative, the manager of the person to be coached and other key actors in this rich, demanding process.

At CEPIG, we distinguish between different forms of coaching, all of which can be adapted to an international context:

• Performance coaching to open up new business opportunities in foreign markets and to gain managerial credibility

• Accompanying a person taking on a new assignment to develop potential talent, enrich his or her resources for understanding local attitudes and values

• Strategic coaching for executive directors who want to reflect about choices for international markets and the impact on their organization

CEPIG helps international managers become architects of integration programs, ensuring successful:

• Integration of cross-cultural employees into teams

• Meaningful annual performance reviews

We can also help you meet the challenge of evaluating talent coming from different cultures. With a broad range of assessment tools and experience, CEPIG is able to help you evaluate these applicants and provide you with recommendations for their integration.