Culbridge Advanced

Culbridge Advanced is an intensive course focused on advanced development tangible hard and soft skills that empower participants to thrive in American Professional and Social arenas.  This course develops proficient to advanced skills in each of the Four Critical Components of the Culbridge Curriculum Design:  Listening Strategies, Conversation Outcomes, Social Adaptability, and Culture Awareness.  The course therefore provides a complete package of skills and capabilities that enable YOU to overcome cross cultural challenges, gain confidence and respect amongst your multi-national and American peers, and achieve your competitive advantage.

Culbridge Advanced will provide you a significantly more extensive focus on real life, everyday scenarios, situations, and challenges in addition to the ability to navigate them with intelligence, confidence and presence.  The course is designed to further develop and polish key skills to a proficiency level at or above your American counterparts and others who thrive in the US.  While this advanced course follows a similar curriculum structure to that of our Core sessions, here we focus on modeling professional and social scenarios utilizing advanced building blocks of professional and social competence.

The course will provide you with:

• 30+ Hours of Course Instruction (See "Course Options")
• Online Class & Instructor Forums
• Free "My Culbridge" Online Membership
• Advanced Personal Development Guide for Continuous Learning
• Certificate of Completion
• Culbridge CEO Letter of Reference (Personalized)

The intended audience for Culbridge Advanced is those international and US citizens and foreign nationals currently residing in the United States, regardless of profession or social status, who desire advanced career and/or personal growth.  It is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that international citizens and foreign nationals in the US complete Culbridge Core prior to starting the Advanced session.  This course is designed to fit the skills and backgrounds of individuals having moderate to extensive exposure to US culture, social and business practices, language, etc.

At your request, Culbridge staff will assist you in determining of Culbridge Advanced is the appropriate starting point for your development and growth process.  Contact us to get started.

Culbridge utilizes both traditional and innovative delivery techniques to ensure you get the most of your learning experience.  Our senior instructors have extensive expertise facilitating a dynamic learning environment and are skilled in enabling solutions to cross-cultural challenges.  While we rely on lecture and instruction to provide you with the appropriate understanding of critical topics and definitions, we believe strongly that an Environment Based Learning approach where our customers "learn by doing", demonstrating skills using practical/real-life scenario's.  This our methods focus more on instructing by examoel and role play than pure lecture alone.  The following are examples of our instruction methods (actual techniques vary based on the scheduling option you choose):

• Live Classroom Setting
• Expert Instructors & Guest Speakers
• Online Discussion Forums
• Role Play & Individual Presentation
• Group Discussion & Problem Solving
• Application of Real Life Experiences
• Professional & Social Scenario's 

In additon to our senior instructors, ou will have exposure to guest speakers who are experts in a given field.  These guest speakers will serve as subject matter experts, where appropriate during the course, to assist with group activity and role play scenarios.  The purpose of this technique is to provide our customers with deep knowledge of practical, every day life scenarios and utilize these scenario's to effectively teach certain aspects of our proprietary curriculum.

MANDATORY REQUIREMENT:  Customers must be proficient in the English Language.  Although significant areas of our courses focus on strengthening your understanding and use of American grammar and dialogue, Culbridge does not teach English as a second language.

In addition, please read our recommendation above for completion of Culbridge Core prior to starting the Culbridge Advanced course.  This is not mandatory, however it is strongly recommended.