FOR BUSINESS LEADERS
Pitfalls & Tarpits of Business in China
THE NEWKIRK GROUP - ENABLERS OF EXECTIVE VISION
P L E A S A N T H I L L, C A.
The Newkirk Group designed the China Connections Program to help you put your China Plans on the fast track to success. Our program consists of a series of dialogues, presentations, coaching opportunities, and strategic consulting services designed to keep you out of trouble in an unfamiliar business and political environment. We offer the experience you can not get in books, short trips, or the limited research of others.
Our China Dialogues Program recognizes that a gap exists in the rush to forge business opportunities in China. In response to this oversight in executive thinking and management practice, the Newkirk Group offers special programs and consulting services to bridge your vision with the new realities in China. Leveraging our significant experience in China to better place your China plans on the reliability path forward, we offer a range of retainer, contract, and fee based consulting services and strategic programs. As "Enablers of Executive Vision," The Newkirk Group assists professionals at the pinnacle of decision making to significantly reduce their hidden risks in China. Designing their own off-shoring paths, clients select our services and programs to reduce their individual and group risks and meet their business goals. Central to our ability to reduce individual and group risks is our skill in building individual resiliency in clients and enabling interpersonal communication with tact and diplomacy.
Regis Smolko specially designed the Communicating with Tact and Diplomacy in China Program to jumpstart and improve your communication skills in China. This powerful program, offering a range of six modules, complements our China Dialogue. It builds upon the knowledge attained during the Dialogue to build a repository of vital wisdom essential to successfully communicating in China. Moving from a working model of communications to solutions for conflict resolution through more artful listening, this Program offers the following:
- How Communications Work In China
- Tact & Diplomacy when Communicating in China
- Preventing Miscommunication in China & Managing It When It Happens
- Methods of Communicating in China
- The Art of Persuasion & Negotiation in China
- Conflict Resolution & the Art Of Listening in China
The Communicating with Tact and Diplomacy Program complements our China Dialogues. Regis Smolko designed it to give clients every possible advantage as they open business in China. Clients may view this program as a special consulting or coaching opportunity to refine their communication skills in and out of China. This complementary program provides the opportunity to better assimilate and use what clients have previously learned in the Dialogues. Here clients take the next step by building powerful communication strategies, methods, and skills to ease their transition into China. Since you will need all the help you can get as you embark on your China Connection, we designed our China programs and consulting services to make such help available.
The Communicating with Tact and Diplomacy Program is a dynamic program of concurrent modules. It explores the universal structural regularities of human communication, general types of communication processes and their relevance in China, the problems of transforming these processes in building your China Connection, and the basic principles of organizing any elements of communication in nature, practice, and cognition in China. This Program is particularly relevant to our Dialogues program because it has supports our objective to help clients avoid the pitfalls and tarpits of the China Connection. In this way, it outlines, complements, and further illuminates the China Dialogues.
The Building Resiliency for Succeeding in China Program prepares clients psychologically and spiritually for the unfamiliar situations they will face in China. This Session assists clients to take stock of their personal strengths. It enables clients to determine their authentic versus apparent readiness for succeeding in China. Clients learn the often hidden techniques that vastly improve their ability to successfully manage themselves in China and improve their decision making skills.
The Building Resiliency for Succeeding in China Program prepares clients helps to take better care of themselves as they embark on their adventure in China. Moving from an action model of the human person to a wisdom-building process for enhanced decision making, this Program consists of the following modules:
- Understanding Yourself for Improved Success
- Building My Personal Time Line
- Fine Tuning My Philosophy of Life
- Making Enhanced Decisions Using a Wisdom Building Process
The Building Resiliency for Succeeding in China Program complements our China Dialogues by improving clients' self-mastery skills as they open business in China. This program offers consulting or coaching opportunities to lead clients to better understand themselves as they encounter a completely new business culture. It also leads clients to better identify their skills and personal capabilities for success as it builds powerful decision making processes to enable clients to better master unforeseen challenges.
The Building Resiliency for Succeeding in China Program is a coherent program of integrated modules. It explores the: (a) universal components of a full human life; (b) understanding of the unified journey that all human beings face; (c) key elements in a philosophy of life, and (d) analysis of the basic steps involved in making wise decisions for oneself. This Program is particularly relevant to our Dialogues Program because it reinforces our objective to enable clients to avoid the pitfalls and tarpits of the China Connection. In this way it further outlines, complements, and illuminates the China Dialogues.
Our China Connection Consulting Practice offers strategic guidance, risk reduction coaching, and personal & professional development in the following general professional areas:
- Leadership & Dynamics in China
- Diversity & Globalization
- Outsourcing Program Governance
- Ethics, Law, Justice, & Corruption Consulting
- Resiliency Enhancement & Communicating with Tact & Diplomacy
The Newkirk Group offers both retainer and fee based services to facilitate the development of powerful China Connection Business/Socialization skills. As a consulting and coaching team, we assist clients in several ways. We leads clients to identify their sources of team success in China. We lead them them to balance the sources of management power, influence, and change to avoid hidden conflict. We lead clients to resolve intergroup conflict for better results and differentiate the expectations of China team members about their roles in building the China Connection. As facilitators, we lead clients to better manage communication processes to overcome the Group Think Tragedy and link corrective emotional experience to project plans to obtain expected results.
As performance specialists we work with clients to form diverse work groups, teams, and cultural systems to achieve the highest level of performance attainable, the Ulthule Level. We assist clients as they examine the current situation for action and link the China program to corporate business strategy. We facilitate clients as they identify and leverage the advantages of the China Connection, assess the range of cultural diversity in management teams, defuse potential cultural problems, and open windows of opportunity in China for realistic achievement.
In program evaluation, we lead clients to identify the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) and Critical Failure Factors (CFFs) of the China Connection, and clarify the relationship between the China Connection and the business mission. We also coach clients on managing the dynamics and characteristics of global leadership while establishing a safe environment to charter their China Connection program.
Our goal is to assist clients in forming their China Business Vision into a competitive edge for achieving exceptional performance. "WE ARE ENABLERS OF EXECUTIVE VISION."
For more information on our China Connection Program or any of our other consulting services, call: (925) 457-7669. You may send e-mail to: smilc@comcast.net.