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CultureWizardPassport

Country-specific, online courses for your global workforce

CultureWizardPassport™, from Mercer and RW³ LLC, helps HR managers assure a reasonable ROI for their development and mobility programs while helping leaders and mobile employees to optimize their experience in their host countries.

CultureWizardPassport offers complete, country-specific, and affordable online cultural training programs suitable for all your employees:

  • Business travelers
  • Traditional expatriate assignees and their families
  • Employees on developmental assignments
  • Managers of diverse teams
  • Employees within culturally diverse teams
  • Global graduates
  • Members of virtual work teams
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  • What You Get
  • Your Assignees Will Be Able To
  • Topics Covered
  • Locations Covered
  • Interactive, country-specific training courses
  • Comprehensive country-specific cultural and geopolitical profiles
  • Personal cultural profiler that customizes the course for each user
  • Expat adjustment cycle tool
  • Relocation scheduling tool
  • SAGE – a validated pre-assignment self-assessment for employee and partner
  • Build individual cultural profiles with a brief survey to discover how personal preferences relate to cultural norms in the host country.
  • Learn about the eight dimensions of culture (such as formal vs. informal, interpersonal vs. transactional), with explanations and examples – immediately see how assignees can avoid embarrassing and confusing situations.
  • Get the facts with our in-depth country research and explore local customs, the role of religion, home life, gift giving, greetings and much more.
  • Mentally prepare for life abroad, including cultural adjustment, and create a customized checklist of activities and tasks to complete before expatriation or repatriation.
  • Complete a confidential self-assessment defining their personal attributes to enable them to be more effective on assignment.
  • Business and social etiquette
  • Meeting behaviors
  • Management and communication
  • Business presentations
  • Passports, visas, work/residence permits
  • Housing, city districts, real estate agencies
  • Moving tips: pets, vehicles
  • Health issues and requirements
  • Educational system, international schools
  • Travel and public transport
  • Phrase book, links to language courses
  • Public holidays
  • Shopping, restaurants, entertainment, sports
  • Contact details of international associations and clubs
  • Afghanistan
  • Algeria
  • Angola
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahamas
  • Bahrain
  • Bangladesh
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Belize
  • Bolivia
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Botswana
  • Brazil
  • Brunei
  • Bulgaria
  • Burkina Faso
  • Cambodia
  • Cameroon
  • Canada
  • Cayman Islands
  • Chad
  • Chile
  • China
  • Colombia
  • Congo, Democratic Republic of
  • Costa Rica
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Croatia
  • Cuba
  • Cyprus
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Dominican Republic
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • El Salvador
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Estonia
  • Ethiopia
  • Finland
  • France
  • Gabon
  • Gambia
  • Georgia
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Greece
  • Guatemala
  • Guinea
  • Haiti
  • Honduras
  • Hong Kong
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Jamaica
  • Japan
  • Jordan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Kosovo
  • Kuwait
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Laos
  • Latvia
  • Lebanon
  • Libya
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Macau
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia
  • Maldives
  • Malta
  • Mexico
  • Monaco
  • Mongolia
  • Montenegro
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • Myanmar (Burma)
  • Nepal
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Nicaragua
  • Nigeria
  • Norway
  • Oman
  • Pakistan
  • Panama
  • Papula New Guinea
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Puerto Rico
  • Qatar
  • Reunion
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Senegal
  • Serbia
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
  • Singapore
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Solomon Islands
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
  • South Korea
  • Spain
  • Sri Lanka
  • St Kitts and Nevis
  • Sudan
  • Suriname
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Syria
  • Taiwan
  • Tanzania
  • Thailand
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • United Arab Emirates
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Uruguay
  • US Virgin Islands
  • Venezuela
  • Vietnam
  • Yemen
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

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