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.

如今我們生活在一個文化上日趨多元化的世界里。每年都會有成千上萬甚至幾百萬的人離開家鄉到異國工作。不論你住在哪里，幾乎每個公司都會有來自不同國家或不同文化背景的員工。

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 morale.

不幸的是，并非每個人都很了解怎樣與外國人交流。在一個公司里，不同的文化之間得不到很好的交流會導致公司的生產率下降，而且會對公司的士氣產生負面影響。

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:

讓我們來了解一下目前不同形式的跨文化培訓，以保證我們大家都能夠在工作中做到游刃有余。

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

多元化培訓并不是一個新概念。培訓者們從下列方面展開培訓：

conflict resolution 紛爭解決

preparing organizations for increases in racial, ethnic, cultural, and gender diversity 讓公司做好面向種族、民族、文化和性別方面不斷多元化的準備

preparing employees for international work 讓員工做好在國際環境下工作的準備

safeguarding against harassment and unfair employment lawsuits 防止紛爭和對職業不平等的訴訟

taking advantage of employee diversity to increase productivity 利用員工文化多元化的特點增加生產率

conducting cultural audits 制定公司文化制度

managing sexual attraction in the workplace 處理好工作中異性間的關系

developing competencies needed to exploit the international marketplace 發展開發國際市場需要的競爭機制