PART I
The Context of International Management Training

The book opens with an introduction to the challenge of training international managers who come together from diverse cultures to participate in learning experiences. It uses work that has been previously carried out on understanding cultural diversity and different learning styles, in order to consider how trainers need to approach the challenges posed in leading learning events for international managers. It also looks at the learning challenge from the point of view of the client who is going to commission a suitably qualified trainer to manage an international training course. It then discusses the considerations for trainers who need to be able to agree the principles and details of training with clients. Finally, the book reviews the economics of international training and how it differs from training that takes place near to the workplaces of participants. This chapter focuses on the need to deliver maximum value from training in terms of helping participants on multi-cultural courses to develop competencies and behaviours that they can use effectively in the workplace. In this way it sets a context for Parts II and III, which consider in detail a process for developing, deploying, implementing and evaluating training for international groups of participants.