Transatlantic Business Development offers the free cross-cultural seminar "Living and Working in the U.S.A."

Metro Detroit-based coaching and consulting firm Transatlantic Business Development has launched its new seminar Living and Working in the U.S.A." helping individuals and corporations from different cultures working together resourcefully.

(PRWEB) July 24, 2004 -- Transatlantic Business Development (tbu), an international coaching and consulting firm located in the heart of the automotive industry, the Detroit Metropolitan area, Michigan, U.S.A., was established in May 2000 following the requests of several international companies to help them create winning strategies that would work across international borders. Dipl. Kfm. Klaus P. Ofenhitzer serves as President and executive IT coach and consultant of the international coaching firm.

Cultural and national differences often jeopardize corporate success on a global scale says Klaus Ofenhitzer, an international management and IT (ERP/SAP) coach and consulting for more than 20 years. Different languages, different market regulations and national laws, different business etiquette and different national consumer behavior require teams and leaders with international skills and thinking to make global concepts a success. And, in a complex IT environment, mostly it is not the system that fails. Once again, the human factor has become a primary key to successful management of complex projects across national frontiers. Cross-cultural business coaching is the most effective way to leverage cultural diversity.

Today the firms experience is recognized by renowned companies across international borders such as Volkswagen and Toyota to mention just two. Other client references can be found on tbus Web site at http://www.tbuconsulting.com. Its goal is to help individuals and corporations from different cultures work together resourcefully. In a highly competitive environment tbus flexible and cost efficient 3-step program encourages clients to develop cultural awareness, learn how to move on the foreign field like on their home play ground and to increase the performance across international borders.

tbu is committed to providing high-quality training services that reduce the overall cost before, during and after the relocation process and enable transferees and their families to be immediately productive on both sites of the Atlantic. Its trainers know by experience, as they themselves are or have been transferees.

Individuals, teams and organizations benefit from tbus seminars and coaching session by better understanding cultural differences and how to turn challenges into opportunities to gain a personal and professional advantage in a global market. Multicultural coaches help to create awareness about cultural differences, to improve communication in a cross-cultural corporate environment and to develop successful management skills that work across international borders.

Opening up to learn, stepping out of the land of familiar, exploring new land provides the advantage to differentiate from your competitors and to succeed in difficult economic times, says Klaus Ofenhitzer.

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