On the personnel development side, Gordon Pacific provides intercultural leadership, executive coaching, and intercultural workforce development training/workshops both in the USA and abroad. This includes services such as:
Executive Coaching and Leadership Development Programs
- Developing global leadership competencies
- On-going coaching for executives during international assignments
- Gordon Pacific has certified executive leadership coaches
Workforce Training/Workshops at Various Points in an International Assignment
Pre-departure intercultural training & workshops for:
- Long-term expatriates
- Business travelers
- Expatriate families
- Youth training
- Follow-up services when on assignment
Repatriation training
- Expatriates & their families returning home after an international assignment (including youth repatriation)
Workforce Training/Workshops for Various Types of Audiences
Intercultural training & workshops for local nationals
- Assisting local nationals working in a western organization or western business environment
Headquarters’ intercultural business awareness
- Assisting home office executives and their staffs in understanding how to support their expatriates working in a foreign environment
- Assisting home office executives and their staffs in how to work and communicate with foreign nationals, suppliers, vendors, distributors, trading companies, and government officials.
International Teambuilding with a Strategic Business Focus
- Enhancing international teams’ performance
- Intercultural teambuilding for organizations with a multi-cultural workforce
- Executive teambuilding for organizations with international diversity within senior ranks
Developing intercultural synergy among diverse cultural backgrounds
- Integrating organizational culture, local national culture & home culture into a productive business workforce environment
Behavioral Leadership Assessments for Intercultural Leadership, Competency, and Adjustment
- Conducting behavioral assessments with feedback (e.g., types include: intercultural leadership, intercultural competence, and intercultural adjustment … for screening & selection as well as solely for personnel development).
- Gordon Pacific has certified assessors in a number of different instruments
Workshops for Consultants and Entrepreneurs
Designing and Implementing Your Consulting and Service Business
If you were contemplating starting a consulting business (external or internal), what might your questions be?
- How do we find prospects?
- How do we compensate our consultants & ourselves?
- How much do we charge clients, and how do we charge them (e.g., fixed price or T&M)?
- How do we estimate the work?
- Who buys consulting?
- How do we sell consulting?
- How do I market my consulting services?
- Can you hire sales people to sell consulting?
- Does it make sense to partner with other companies?
- How do we work with other consultants?
- Does the client expect the work to be done at their location?
- What is our liability?
- How do we manage client’s expectations and prevent “scope creep”?
- How do we set up the company, payroll, accounting, legal entity, etc.?
- How big do we want to be?
- How are engagements structured?
- How will we do the work?
- How long before we are profitable?
- What does the cash flow look like for each proposed job?
- What are the standard terms of payment?
This workshop addresses all of these questions and more!