At STARDUST GCS, our team members come from different cultural backgrounds, and many are multicultural/multilingual professionals with a long history of services across the world. Our leadership understands that positive cultural interactions enhance clearer communication, break down barriers, build trust, strengthen relationships, and yield tangible results in terms of mission success – all of which are impacted by culture. Our team of cross-cultural experts will help analyze and identify core training requirements throughout the deployment cycle.

STARDUST GCS offers a comprehensive service, covering a vast range of geographical regions and cultures. We train and familiarize customers with the values, beliefs, behaviors, and norms of a specific region, so they may understand and anticipate societal norms and behaviors of the indigenous population. In doing so, STARDUST GCS helps increase the Mission-Effectiveness of US personnel operating globally by minimizing culture shock, bridging gaps, and enabling robust cooperation with our foreign hosts and partners. Upon completion of training, our customers recognize key aspects related to the geography as well as any key historical events that have shaped the culture of a region. They recognize characteristics related to the people and ethnic groups of an area and can identify characteristics related to the languages and dialects spoken by the local population. Our customers are also able to recognize the influences of religion on the local culture and distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate behaviors. Etiquette to use when interacting with or in the presence of local men, women, and children.

Our training has provided our customers with an overall awareness of culture with respect to the geographical values, beliefs, behaviors, and norms within a specific region. STARDUST GCS offers the following Cultural Awareness Training for specific geographical regions to enhance our customers’ global mission success: