Resources

Highroad Global Services is pleased to offer a series of free reports and websites to help you grow your global business. Just click on the links below for insight, tips and more. Feel free to print, download and share these reports. Keep checking back with us! New reports come several times a year.

Current Free Reports

1. From Divided to Ignited to United:

Proper planning is necessary if you want more than raw data or an information dump from your offshore business. Cultural education and team building can unite your global teams, leveraging them to operate as a single entity, yet respecting and valuing differences. Click here to find out in which stage your global business stands.

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2. Effective Cross-Cultural Project Management:

This article, a feature published in September of 2007 in Industrial Engineer magazine, highlights the common pitfalls of planning a project across cultures and provides several strategies for success. Do not miss this content-rich, practical report on streamlining your projects and ensuring results across borders.
Click here to download the report:
Free Project Planning Report

Copyright©2007. Reprinted with permission of the Institute of Industrial Engineers from September 2007, Industrial Engineer. All rights reserved.

3. The Untapped Goldmine: Marketing to Diverse Consumers:

Are you reaching all of your potential consumers? Are you ready for marketing in a globalized economy? Connecting with consumers’ cultural values and needs is a key part of marketing today. Read this report for tips, resources and in-depth understanding about raising your market value for a diverse set of customers.
Click here to download the report:
Free Diverse Marketing Report

4. How Company Leaders Turn New Diversity Trends into Sustainable Growth:

Highroad President Vicki Flier Hudson was recently asked to speak at a diversity panel at Emory's Goizueta Business School. Panelists came from organizations such as Turner Broadcasting, the Atlanta Falcons and Deloitte & Touche. Each speaker offered valuable insight into the traps and pitfalls of diversity today, as well as solutions that benefit all employees. Learn what these successful leaders have done including flexibility for working mothers, vacation incentives for U.S. based employees and more.
Click here to download the report:
Free Diversity Report

5. The Five Keys to Successful Intercultural Communication:

Global communication has become a way of life, but it doesn’t mean we understand others enough to meet our goals. Five keys to successful intercultural communication open the doors to understanding and serving clients best.
Click here to download this article written for the ATA Chronicle:
Free Intercultural Communication Report

6. Fight the Fear: Maximize Your International Business:

You may have heard the expression before, but how has its meaning changed in light of the global economic downturn? No part of the world seems untouched by the recession, and as we all share the burden, leaders are seeking ways to maximize current business investments, cut costs and root out inefficiencies. Some people, on the other hand, let fear control their decisions, and therefore they retract into isolation. Read on to see how to fight the fear and grow your international business.
Click here to download the report:
Free Fight the Fear Report

7. Cross-Cultural Competency: The Skill You Can't Survive Without:

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Website Links

Learn workplace Spanish for success: Workplace Spanish

Great travel resource, newsletter, tours and inspiration: Wanderlust and Lipstick

Free Resources on the Cultural Groups of Atlanta: Global Atlanta Works

Travel services to China: China Professional Tours

Worldwide immigration law services: Siskind Susser Bland Immigration Law

Skill set training for HR, employees, leaders and mediators: Conflict Resolution Academy

Books on Culture and Diversity: www.interculturalpress.com

Copywriting Services: www.zagstudios.com

Society of Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR): www.sietarusa.org

Europe chapter of SIETAR: www.sietar-europa.org

SIETAR India: www.sietarindia.org

News and Views of India: www.khabar.com

Georgia Council for International Visitors: www.gciv.org

Atlanta World Trade Center - International Events: www.wtcatlanta.com