<img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-69" src="http://morocco.chickenfactory.ch/wp-content/uploads/articles/countrynavigator_topten_322-288x300.png" alt="Country Navigator Top 10" width="288" height="300" />We have a well-structured 3-months learning plan as preparation to our on-site assignment. The good thing is, many exercises are also fun. Part of the cultural awareness sessions was to complete our personal profile in <a title="Country Navigator - Cross-cultural understanding" href="http://www.countrynavigator.com" target="_blank">Country Navigator</a>. Try it out for yourself, it's free and interesting!

By indicating how to act, think and communicate in several situations the system creates a visual profile which can then be compared with your friend's profiles... or with a specific country. As it turned out, Switzerland was not within the top 10 matching countries to my profile - closest match was Sweden! :-)

What to do with it? In my point of view such results can never be 100% accurate - but that's also not the aim. It helps however to reflect about your way of collaboration and where you might be careful in another cultural environment.

<a href="http://morocco.chickenfactory.ch/wp-content/uploads/articles/countrynavigator_profile_morocco_527.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-68" src="http://morocco.chickenfactory.ch/wp-content/uploads/articles/countrynavigator_profile_morocco_527.png" alt="Country Navigator - my profile vs. Morocco" width="527" height="466" /></a>