Today we all live in an increasingly culturally diverse world. Each year thousands, if not millions, of people leave their homes to work abroad and almost every company no matter where you live, will employ people from other countries or cultures.

如今我们生活在一个文化上日趋多元化的世界里。每年都会有成千上万甚至几百万的人离开家乡到异国工作。不论你住在哪里，几乎每个公司都会有来自不同国家或不同文化背景的员工。

Sadly, not everyone has the skills in interacting with people from other cultures. In a company, bad interaction between cultures leads to loss of productivity and can have a very bad impact on company morale¹.

不幸的是，并非每个人都很了解怎样与外国人交流。在一个公司里，不同的文化之间得不到很好的交流会导致公司的生产率下降，而且会对公司的士气产生负面影响。

Let's have a look at different types of cross-cultural training that exists to make sure that we can all get along in the work place:

让我们来了解一下目前不同形式的跨文化培训，以保证我们大家都能够在工作中做到游刃有余。

Diversity training is not a new idea. Diversity trainers use their expertise² in:

多元化培训并不是一个新概念。培训者们从下列方面展开培训：

conflict resolution 纷争解决

preparing organizations for increases in racial, ethnic, cultural, and gender diversity 让公司做好面向种族、民族、文化和性别方面不断多元化的准备

preparing employees for international work 让员工做好在国际环境下工作的准备

safeguarding against harassment and unfair employment lawsuits 防止纷争和对职业不平等的诉讼

taking advantage of employee diversity to increase productivity 利用员工文化多元化的特点增加生产率

conducting cultural audits 制定公司文化制度

managing sexual attraction in the workplace 处理好工作中异性间的关系

developing competencies needed to exploit the international marketplace 发展开发国际市场需要的竞争机制