Cross-Cultural Team Solutions for Impact
Leading a culturally diverse remote team can be challenging.
Leveraging the potential of different backgrounds and perspectives is the key to coping with disruptive global changes, especially for fast-growing organizations.
And getting everyone to be on the same page, engaged, and proactive is demanding.
Recent transitions to hybrid or fully remote work, organizational restructuring, mergers, business expansions, digital transformation and other changes make it even more difficult to lead cross-cultural teams to success.
We believe that with team alignment, engagement soars, and performance thrives.
That's why we created the Team IMPACT™ Model, grounded in research (2000+ meta-research participants) and informed by practice (20+ combined years).
With the support our this proprietary diagnostic tool, we support Global Cross-cultural Teams and their Leaders to develop resilience, foster agility, create ownership and become a more efficient and engaged team.
- As of 2023, globally 12.7% of full-time employees work from home, while 28.2% work with a hybrid model (source: Forbes).
- 69% of executives rate diversity and inclusion as an important issue in the US. (source: Glassdoor)
- According to McKinsey, more diverse companies will outperform their industry peers by over 30%.
- In the next 10 years, human skills will matter most, with adaptability/flexibility (69%), collaborative skills (67%), and critical thinking (66%) seen as more important than technical or core business skills. (source: PWC)
WHY FOCUS ON TEAMS? Traditionally, organizations focus on individuals to drive high performance, but research shows that teamwork leads to improved performance, productivity and quality of decision-making. In a complex global environment, developing individual human capital is not enough. Teams are the core of organizational performance and need dedicated support to align on goals, come together to anticipate challenges, collaborate under stress, and communicate proactively. Conventional team activities (team building, seminars, workshops, training etc..) require a lot of time and effort to plan but don't show the long-lasting results organizations need. What helps teams learn is analyzing their experiences, reviewing their insights, establishing open communication practices, and creating a united team climate. This is where Team Coaching comes in: it creates impact, it addresses real-world issues, promotes team growth and allows changes to become habits. Team Coaching uses a sustained series of conversations to build team agility, resilience, belonging and ownership, key attributes to adapting to new challenges that fast-growing companies face in a competitive market. |
OUR MODEL
We developed our proprietary diagnostic
Team IMPACT ™ Model,
a psychometrically validated tool to help
global teams explore different aspects of their performance and relationships.
InfluenceThis dimension looks at how the team creates an impact for themseves and the wider organization, as well as how the team can advance their own agenda and persuade the organization and stakeholders in their goals/strategy/mission.
Mission OrientationHere we explore how the team performs and creates results; how the team sees themselves in relation to the organizational strategy and mission and how performance-driven the team is (vs. people/relationship driven).
People OrientationThis dimension is about relational dynamics and processes guiding interactions between team members, and describes the relations between individuals and their team. It looks at how people respond to challenges in interpersonal relationships within the team and construct positive interactions and how people-driven the team is (vs. performance-driven).
AgilityAgility describes how flexible and adaptable the team is and how learning happens on the team. It explores if the team demonstrates a “growth mindset”, how it respond to challenges and how self-motivated is the team to grow.
Culture OrientationHere we look at how the team creates a culture of inclusion, respect and responds to diversity (e.g. cultural, personality, generational, gender, geographical, i.e. time zones, etc.) with a particular focus on cultural diversity.
Team OrientationThis dimension looks at the team’s collective mindset, team spirit, teaming behaviors and shared collaboration practices. It also describes the team’s level of commitment and, helping each other out, being there for each other.
- Team IMPACT™ Diagnostic
- Key stakeholder interviews
- Orientation and Strategy session
- Identify focus areas
- Creating solutions around the focus areas in multiple team coaching sessions
- Check-ins between sessions
Review
- Repeating Team IMPACT™ Diagnostic
- ROI meeting – review and compare diagnostic results
We work with teams and organizations who:
Want to increase team performance while leveraging cultural diversity
Want to increase engagement and resilience by creating well-being and belonging
Are facing challenges to align performance, engagement and organizational growth
our clients' unique needs
FOUNDATION
TRACK
(3 months)
Team Strategy Session (includes IMPACT™ Diagnostic debrief)
Team Progress Check-in and Review
SUSTAINABLE IMPACT TRACK
(6 months)
Team Strategy Session (includes IMPACT™ Diagnostic debrief)
Team coaching sessions
End of engagement Team Diagnostic and Debrief
LONG TERM
IMPACT TRACK
(1 year)
Team Strategy Session (includes IMPACT™ Diagnostic debrief)
Team coaching sessions
End of engagement Team Diagnostic and Debrief
1 year ongoing Team support
Luba Diasamidze
Luba Diasamidze, PhD is an executive and team coach. She’s passionate about helping global and local teams to go beyond in performance by reaching alignment, co-creating inclusive and safe team culture, improving communication and transforming their mindset and behaviors. Her role is to be a catalyst, helping a team have a meaningful conversation they cannot have themselves. Her clients come from a broad range of industries – education, IT, manufacturing, automotive, GameDev, retail, supply chain, etc.
Luba’s qualifications include:
· ICF PCC credential
· Certified team coach
· Strength-based professional
· EQ-i 2.0 certified
· TDA (Team Diagnostic Assessment) certified
· Mindfulness instructor
“What I like about working with teams is working with a dynamic living system in all its beauty, complexity, and diversity. A team coach acts as a mirror, reflecting back to the team their relational patterns, internal processes, how performance and alignment are achieved. Team coaching helps organizations thrive by letting their teams pause and have some honest conversations about what kind of team they are and how they can create a greater impact”.
Maria Pastorelli
Maria is an enthusiastic and passionate coach, facilitator, writer, and speaker dedicated to empowering leaders and teams to create global impact by focusing on their strengths, shifting perspectives, and mastering communication. She has been involved in the coaching and training industry working with individuals and organizations in China and Europe since 2011.
With a strong cross-cultural communication background and her own experience of working and living in China, she has helped teams and organizations in China, Europe, and APAC to improve their collaboration and leadership skills across cultures.
Her strength is creating and delivering customized, engaging, and effective group training and coaching programs to help organizations, executives, and teams work effectively in complex global environments in English and Chinese.
Since 2011, she has trained and coached hundreds of professionals from 20+ countries to develop the skills needed to work effectively in a global environment for multinational companies such as Google, SAP, Siemens, Bayer, Shiseido, Covestro, Ctrip, and many more.
A career in consulting with a variety of Chinese, European, and APAC-based clients has given Maria a unique perspective of the challenges that many leaders face in multinational organizations, allowing her to explore how to best improve performance while leading a global multicultural team.
Maria’s qualifications include:
- ICF PCC credential
- Organizational Development Certified Professional (ODCP)
- Systemic Team Coaching Certificate from the Academy of Executive Coaching
- Cross-cultural Communication Degree
- Certified Leadership Facilitator
- Certified #IAmRemarkable Facilitator
- Fluent in Italian, English, and Chinese
- TEDx Speaker
