- 889 takes title/ownership of products to remove risk from our clients.
- Our multi-lingual team provides on-the-ground inspection and quality control in China.
- We provide logistics management, including import/export documentation, customs brokerage and transportation from Asia to clients’ locations.
- Clients are assigned a multi-lingual project manager, based in the U.S., who ensures goods are manufactured to their exact specifications and are delivered on time.
- 889’s extensive contacts throughout China provide our clients with the unique ability to manage risk by working with trusted, quality manufacturers.
Cross Cultural Training
Doing business overseas requires a lot more than just learning the country's official language(s). For example, in Mexico it is a good idea to ask your Mexican business associates about their families, but in the Arab community your business relationship might never recover from this kind of questioning.
Today, businesses are increasingly becoming involved in international trade and competition is stiff. You could be selling to customers abroad, involved in a joint venture, managing a staff of foreign nationals or consulting for a company with overseas interests. For you to succeed it is imperative that you understand the nuances of doing business and socializing in your target country.
When living and working in a foreign country, our assumptions about the way things work and the way people behave are often incorrect. The experience can be quite overwhelming, but if a person is well-managed and has insight into cultural differences, it can be a very rewarding and successful experience on both personal and professional levels.
What is Cross-Cultural Training?
Cross-cultural training enables professionals and their families to optimize their experiences in an international environment by making them aware of crucial patterns of behavior in their own culture as well as in the new culture. This helps them break down potential barriers and one can profit more from their international experience.
Cross-cultural training is relatively new on the circuit. Many companies experiencing global growth are sending employees and their families abroad only to find that they are not doing as well as expected because there is so much to learn, so much to adapt to and new ways of working that take time to master. Cross-cultural training or CCT is a program designed to specifically answer these needs.
Cross-cultural training provides incoming and outgoing expatriate families a chance to learn what to expect and how best to deal with the changes. It allows you to meet with a trainer who understands what crossing cultures is like and offers you a chance to explore your decision confidently. He provides accurate information about daily life, political, historical, and economic data from a social and workplace perspective before you relocate.