1. X-Culture as an International Career Experience Option
Andrew Clark, Leadership Development Instructor
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
College of Business
November 2018

2. What exactly is X-Culture?
Each semester your school pays $250
Students are free!

3. My early program analysis and pilot

4. X-Culture allows for a real international Career Experience - Virtually
Real business clients with real business challenges
Real international teams – conducting real virtual meetings and working collaboratively to solve real client challenges
Amazing how our community college students hold up with MBA students in the world!

5. More than what we expected - Charter
Roles
In our team everyone shares their ideas and gives his opinion. 
Abdulla and Olivier are responsible for dealing with the first task the project: Market Analysis.
Marie P. and Marie S. are responsible for the Marketing part of the project.
Operations Management will be taken care of by Martin. 
Marie S. volunteered to edit the final report and submit. f a team member is unable to communicate or participate for any reason,  the member must inform the team as soon as possible. 
In case of a task is performed in poor quality according to the team, the latter must be redone by the member(s). 
In case of the conflict eruption, the members will discuss it before referring to a coach. When a team member is behaving unprofessionally, the team will vote to exclude the member from the team.
In case there is conflict on the perception or quality of what the research is or how specific it should be, the team should discuss to determine the most appropriate course of action.
Evaluation
For each weekly peer evaluation, we will be honest, objective and we won’t protect a member if he does nothing unless he has a good reason not to participate in a task.
The weekly grades reflect your performance, not our friendship.
We will not tolerate plagiarism and we will report this.  
X-Culture Team Charter Charmtech
Mission
As a part of X-Culture, five students from around the world have teamed up to work together and collaborate with an international company to purpose a plan that will enhance their business.
Objective
Our team chose Charmtech Labs from the USA.  Charmtech has a product called Captivoice which is an interactive computer app that can assist students from K- college enhance literacy learning by helping those with disabilities such as ADHD, Dyslexia, or vision impaired.  It is also a useful tool for those learning another language and is a great tool for college students to download textbooks and add an audio version to learning. Captivoice wants to promote their product by finding additional receptive markets in both US and across seas.  Our vision is to find more creative ways to open new market for this company.
Communication
Documents will be exchanged and co-edited in Dropbox.  
Weekly meetings will be held in Slack . Every week Marie P. will make a Doodle to find the best time for everybody to meet. Every weekly meeting will be followed by a wrap up send on Slack on a dedicated channel and by . 
All group discussions will be held on Slack.
s are the channel through official decisions will be communicated. 
What if ?
I Leadership
Marie Smith will be coordinating all the tasks and will send reminders throughout the project.

6. How did I track my students by the week?
I created a tracking form that they had to submit in blackboard weekly:

7. Criteria-driven Instructor Feedback – matches our Employability Skills

8. X-Culture from a student’s perspective
“Taking on the X-culture assignment pushed me in a corner to take on the lead role for the team. Nobody wanted it, and I really didn’t think I wanted it. In my heart, from the very beginning, I knew I was the one who was going to get “stuck” with it. Well, I am sure glad I did get stuck with it. I discovered an organizational mindset that surprised the heck out of me, and I had a blast! X-Culture was definitely a stretch for me. I was out of my comfort zone but discovered, truly, how much you can grow when you are pushed out of that comfort zone. 
Now I know a different level of who I am. I am a person who is willing to step out, take a chance, and see what comes out on the other end. Another dimension of something about myself that was purged out for me to discover.
I couldn’t be more proud or pleased!”
Sheron Bass

9. X-Culture recognizes and rewards exemplary individual performance
Dear Sheron, Thank you for your application to participate in the Global X-Culture Conference & Symposium, 2018 hosted by the University of Macerata in Italy. I am delighted to inform you are among the 150 finalists invited to partake in this event. Congratulations! Your official invitation letter is attached. Please read it carefully. It contains all information you need to complete your registration. Sincerely, Dr. Vas Taras X-Culture Founder and President

10. X-Culture’s feedback to our students:
Dear Marc,   We are almost done with evaluating and ranking your team reports and will be announcing the winners of the Round of the X- Culture competition in a few days.   I know the X-Culture project was probably quite demanding and some students found it challenging to work in a global virtual team.   However, you completed a full-scale consulting project and developed a business solution for a real company while working with people from several different countries. That’s quite an accomplishment. Congratulations! Looking back, I hope you find it a useful experience.   Now, within the next week, you will receive your:
performance review
Cultural Intelligence report
recommendation letter
X-Culture Global Business Certificate.
These documents will be sent to you as a high-resolution, print-ready PDF files. Please do not lose them. We hear literally hundreds of stories when the X-Culture Certificate helped students get jobs. Most students do not have this sort of experience. You do – and employers value it.   More soon. Sincerely, Dr. Vas Taras X-Culture Project Founder and Coordinator

11. Marc’s Surpise
Andy - I just checked the X-culture website and my team is listed as one of the 40 BEST REPORTS they had submitted.
This language is taken right from  the website:

12. The final project
Team #679
Marc Erickson

13. Any Questions or Comments?