MULTICULTURAL ASSOCIATES              Assisting organizations reach the next level of excellence 
             and profitability!


 

Success starts with Leadership!    


The difference between success and failure starts with leadership. So we start with your organization's senior managers and executives to help you solve the most critical and fundamental problems to make sure that "Matsushita," or cultural transformation takes place and is sustained. Ultimately the process is carried out by middle management supporting the value-added front-line employees, but many of these middle managers lack basic management, supervisory and leadership skills, so we start building "bench strength" through skills development.  Finally, we fully-engage the front-line process experts through education, and meaningful knowledge transfer and open dialogue, fully-integrating the entire organization.  It becomes more than an initiative.  It becomes "a way of life!"

 

About Multicultural Associates


Since 1997 Multicultural Associates has been assisting organizations get to the next level of excellence and profitabilty by helping organizations understand how culture affects workplace success.


There are two aspects of culture:


1.  People from different ethnicities or cultures.

2.  Organizational cultural factors.

Our Associates are industry leaders from various industries with proven track records of results and success.

  • We've done it!
  • We can do it!
    We can teach it!
  • We can help you sustain it!
Let Multicultural Associates improve your Bottom Line!



Government funding may be available for your Continuous Improvement Project.
HABLA USTED DINERO?
53% of America's workforce is from another ethnicity or culture!  

The Hispanic population is currently the fastest-growing population in the United States. Over the next 30-40 years this population will grow from the current 50 million to over 120 million!  One-out-of every four Americans will be Hispanic!
This population is vibrant, creative, and hard-working, and young.  The average age is 32 with over 30% of the population under the age of 18.

However... Only 60% of this population is graduating from High School, only 9% have a bachelor's degree and only 1% have a post-graduate degree.  

If this current education deficit trend continues, then we will be seeing a serious lack of skills in America's workforce in the future.

Contrast this to the current U.S. Asian population which is only 10 million, but controls more than half of the discretionary income the entire U.S. Hispanic population currently controls ($1.5 Trillion)

The answer is obvious:  

The Asian population in the U.S. is highly-educated and holds over 23% of the nation's professional jobs in science, finance and healthcare.

What does this mean to me as an employer?

Improving people's formal education levels and skill sets is not only a business initiative, but it must become a national initiative if we are to stay competitive globally!

What else does this mean to me?

People from different cultures deal with workplace motivation, conflict resolution, customer service and quality differently.  

If you do not know how to approach employee development and in a culturally relevant way, in this new world, then you will soon be out-of-business!
Between 2010 and 2050, the U.S. White population will shrink dramatically from 72% of the population to 53% of the population!  

Multicultural Associates knows how to reach people from different cultures with culturally-relevant messages, skills development, neurolinguistic modalities and the right experiential learning to drive your message home, increase skills levels and leverage your message towards transformation and true long-term sustainability!

Transforming current workplace cultures requires knowledge of:

1.  People's approach to work
     - work/life balance
2.  Cultural perceptions
     - Perception of self
     - Perception of others
     - Perception of other cultures
3.  Education levels
     - only 60% of the Hispanic                    population has a high school
       degree compared to 85% of the          African-American and White
       population.
4.  Language barriers
     - Language preference
     - Assimilation and acculturation
     -  High-context vs low-context  
        language
5.  Cultural barriers
     - Collaborative cultures vs
        competitive cultures
     - Intimacy Zones
     - Approach to conflict

We may see more violence and vandalism in tomorrow's workplace because the growing cultures deal with situations differently, more vocally, and more demonstratively...

Multicultural Associates has this knowledge!  It's what sets us apart from other consulting firms and we are VERY EFFECTIVE at cultural transformation!!

Let us help you and your organization today to create an empowering, mutually beneficial, successful, culturally-relevant tomorrow....