Better Teaming with India: Proven Financial Services Strategies

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a better teaming with India program focused on Working with Virtual Teams in Different Cultures.

The highly customized training program results were:

• 95.6% Job Relevance
• 100% Satisfaction
• 122% Knowledge Gain
• 100.% Net Promoter Score

Why Better Teaming with India Mattered for This Growing Financial Services Software Firm
For this high growth financial services software firm, effective collaboration with India-based teams was not only an operational efficiency concern, but an integral part of their profitable growth strategy.

They wanted to successfully integrate global talent in order to:

• Accelerate product development cycles
• Improve software quality and innovation
• Increase scalability without sacrificing performance
• Strengthen customer responsiveness
• Reduce costly misunderstandings and rework

To hit targets and meet evolving customer demands, they needed their global teams to operate as one team rather than separate locations with very different subcultures, team norms, and business practices.

Better Teaming with India: Proven Strategies for Stronger Global Financial Services Collaboration

Working across geographical boundaries is difficult enough but when you add having to work across different cultures it becomes even more challenging to create better teaming. The better teaming with India workshop helped participants gain a better understanding of cultural differences between American and Indian coworkers.

Participants learned how to:

• Build Trust Before Focusing on Efficiency
  Creating opportunities for meaningful interaction between U.S. and India-based employees beyond project status meetings.
• Create Explicit Communication Norms
  Establishing clear expectations around communication can significantly improve effectiveness.
• Focus on Shared Outcomes Rather Than Locations
  How to emphasize common goals, customer outcomes, and business priorities.
• Develop Global Leadership Capabilities
  Leading distributed teams requires a different skill set than managing co-located teams.

The group learned that the importance of teamwork cannot be overestimated. The majority of their jobs relied others to be successful.  They appreciated the diverse skills required to succeed and realized that great team communication required mutual understanding and trust.

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About LSA Global
Founded in 1995, LSA Global is a trusted performance consulting and training firm that helps high-growth technology, services, and life sciences companies turn strategy into measurable results. We partner with executive teams to build competitive advantage by aligning culture and talent with strategy — so individuals, teams, and organizations perform at their peak. Learn more about how organizational alignment drives performance.

by Tristam Brown: CEO

Tristam Brown is an executive business consultant and organizational development expert with more than three decades of experience helping organizations accelerate performance, build high-impact teams, and turn strategy into execution. As CEO of LSA Global, he works with leaders to get and stay aligned™ through research-backed strategy, culture, and talent solutions that produce measurable, business-critical results. See full bio.