About this template

Do you work at an organization where employees with different cultures collaborate? Having employees with diverse backgrounds makes for rich melting pots where everyone can learn from each other. Misunderstandings and challenges can occur, too. You can use this template to train people. We have made it so employees can develop an understanding for co-workers with a different background, and keep confusion and conflict at bay. It will help employees to understand each other better and collaborate more effectively.

This template covers information about:

• The cultural iceberg
• Recognizing low vs. high context
• Communicating with high- and low-context communicators
• Spotting and dealing with direct and indirect feedback

This template is for:

• L&D professionals
• Instructional designers
• Anyone who works at a organization with people with different cultures

How to use and customize this template

This training template covers the most universal and crucial information on this topic. We added some empty sections and question fields that you can customize to make the template relevant for your organization. If you don’t need to and want to use the template like it is now, you are free to chuck these parts. In that case, the only thing you need to do is change details like your organization’s name and the training duration.

Feel like changing the template up entirely? You are welcome to. You can change anything about the template. It’s also possible to remove sections, add new ones, add additional questions, and add different content. Keep in mind that you need to define learning objectives for each new or changed section. Our advice? Learn how our templates work, then turn it into whatever works best for you.