Dutch American Team Synergy
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Unlocking Synergy: Building Innovative Dutch-American Teams
Workshop for Dutch / American team synergy
Diverse teams bring together a variety of skills, experiences, and perspectives, which can lead to
Increased innovation: creativity thrives when different perspectives generate fresh and innovative ideas
Improved market performance: teams that embrace differences outperform homogeneous teams
Increased employee satisfaction: because diverse teams have high level of psychological safety
This, in turn, can result in higher revenue and efficiency for organizations
Each workshop is tailored to the team’s specific needs.
Examples of cultural differences in global teams:
Dissatisfied employees, high employee turnover, hiring wrong employees
Lack of trust among team members, leading to cliques and excluding those who are “diffferent”
Disconnect in communication and expectations: messages and agreements interpreted differently
Loss in revenue
Lost contracts
Studies show diverse teams are more productive, creative and innovative than homogeneous teams
There is a clear relationship between diversity and outperformance, which has strengthened over time.* This workshop helps culturally diverse teams understand what cultural differences are by learning about their team members’ cultures and creating awareness of one’s own culture. By exploring the differences and how they are manifested within the team, teams learn to create synergies, build trust and establish collaborative relationships and sustained cooperation.
*McKinsey: Diversity wins (2023), Why diversity Matters (2015), Delivering through Diversity (2018)Case Study:
A Dutch company expanded to the United States. The Dutch employee dispatched to the US quickly grew the office to 16 American employees. The expansion came with growing pains, and it was difficult to retain key employees. There seemed to be a lot of resentment towards the Dutch HQ.
The Dutch and the US offices each attended workshops on understanding cultural differences and familiarizing them with the other country’s culture. A small group of representatives from both offices then met to discuss the differences and came up with ways to improve cooperation and communication between the offices. The result was improved employee satisfaction and significantly lower employee turn over.