Business across cultures
Euroasia provides a range of services to help businesses in their dealings with people who may come from a different culture and speak a different language.
Our consulting work covers areas such as cross-cultural advice, international business visits and organising international events.
We also provide guidance for people preparing to move overseas or to those coming to New Zealand.
We offer language courses in the main languages likely to be encountered by New Zealand businesses. These include our special options, Language for Business and in-house language training to a group of staff.
Other services related to language include translation, interpreting and language assessment.
Our background
- Our experience inside delivering cross-cultural business advice dates back many years, making us one of New Zealand’s leading cross-cultural consulting firms.
- We have extensive experience of training business professionals in effective cross-cultural relationships, as well as in specific business language skills.
- We have successfully managed a number of high-profile visits by overseas delegations to New Zealand.
- We have taken New Zealanders to visit with business executives in Asia.
- Our staff have specialist skills and experience in both an Asian and a European or Latin American context; they are also living in New Zealand now, and therefore also understand the way of life here.
- We are ourselves a multi-cultural, multi-lingual organisation, with all of our staff having lived and travelled extensively overseas and themselves speaking at least one other foreign language.
- Our management staff all have many years’ experience dealing with clients and staff from many different countries.
- We are committed to the delivery of programmes on-time and on-budget.
Business visits to New Zealand
Euroasia has arranged complex itineraries for a number of high-profile business delegations visiting New Zealand.
In addition to arranging all activities and logistics in conjunction with in-bound travel partners, Euroasia also has experience and the network to facilitate connection with appropriate local contacts in the course of the visit.
Euroasia has previously advised one of China’s largest property development companies on their official visits to New Zealand. We arranged for the representatives to meet some of their New Zealand counterparts and also visit a range of construction projects.
With such programmes, we also arrange interpreters and all logistics including transport, accomodation and event management. We can also provide briefings for all parties regarding cultural and general business expectations.
Euroasia also offers a complete service in cross-cultural consulting and the facilitation of business dealings across cultures.
Cross cultural advice
Euroasia has been involved with a number of international events, involving people making business connections across cultures.
In 2009, Euroasia organised the highly successful International Sustainable Cities Forum, held in Auckland. In 2010, we helped organise the government-sponsored ASEAN Business Leaders Forum.
Euroasia is the organiser of the New Zealand Migration and Investment Forum in Singapore and Malaysia.
Euroasia can add the most value in the following situations:
- Where New Zealand businesspeople are meeting up with overseas counterparts.
- The backgrounds and expectations of groups representing diverse cultures had to be explained to the other.
- Interpreters are needed.
Euroasia has a track record in the successful organisation of events and visits. Although we are skilled at the management of event logistics, where we add the greatest value is in applying the cross-cultural understanding needed to ensure that an event is not just well-run, but also of genuine value to the participants.
Euroasia personnel have well-established networks both within the mainstream New Zealand business community as well as migrant business communities.
If you would like us to arrange an international event of this kind, or if you would simply like to have our input in certain areas, please contact us.
We also offer cross-cultural advice and assistance with business visits.
Our corporate consultants
Euroasia is a well-established consultancy, and we can utilise the skills of a wide range of consultants to meet our clients’ needs.
Some of our key people are listed below, though there are others that we may also call upon depending on project requirements. Our consultants come with a variety of experience, and our outputs are often the product of a team effort with input from many different sources. Our services can be delivered anywhere in New Zealand/Australia, and also overseas.
Language assessment for businesses
A number of employers, including Air New Zealand and Fonterra, use Euroasia’s language assessment service.
- How is it useful? Confirm the linguistic competence of staff who are not native speakers of English.
- Confirm the linguistic performance of New Zealand staff who are offering foreign language skills.
- Receive advice on the level of service they are able to provide.
Our language assessment programmes are tailor-made to suit the particular context. We therefore assess how people will perform when handling the situations they are likely to encounter at work. The assessments can be geared to the spoken and/or the written language.
Corporate event management
Euroasia has been involved with a number of international events, involving people making business connections across cultures.
In 2009, Euroasia organised the highly successful International Sustainable Cities Forum, held in Auckland. In 2010, we helped organise the government-sponsored ASEAN Business Leaders Forum.
Euroasia is the organiser of the New Zealand Migration and Investment Forum in Singapore and Malaysia.
Euroasia can add the most value in the following situations:
- Where New Zealand businesspeople are meeting up with overseas counterparts.
- The backgrounds and expectations of groups representing diverse cultures had to be explained to the other.
- Interpreters are needed.
Euroasia has a track record in the successful organisation of events and visits. Although we are skilled at the management of event logistics, where we add the greatest value is in applying the cross-cultural understanding needed to ensure that an event is not just well-run, but also of genuine value to the participants.
Euroasia personnel have well-established networks both within the mainstream New Zealand business community as well as migrant business communities.
If you would like us to arrange an international event of this kind, or if you would simply like to have our input in certain areas, please contact us.
We also offer cross-cultural advice and assistance with business visits.