Guide to Cultural Learning Styles

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Design learning that works for everyone, everywhere.

Culture influences how people absorb information, work with others, and apply what they’ve learned. This guide shows how learning preferences differ across cultures and provides practical strategies to help you design programs that resonate with learners globally.

Discover how culture shapes key learning dimensions:

  • Independent ↔ Interdependent: Understand how learners define success—through individual achievement or group connection.
  • Egalitarian ↔ Status: Learn how hierarchy impacts participation and facilitator roles.
  • Risk ↔ Certainty: Explore how comfort with uncertainty affects learning preferences and experimentation.
  • Direct ↔ Indirect: Adapt communication to engage learners who express themselves differently.
  • Task ↔ Relationship: Balance efficiency and connection to build trust and motivation.

Built on decades of cross-cultural training experience, this guide shows how you can turn cultural differences into learning that engages each person, inspires action, and delivers results.

Empower your learners. Strengthen your global training programs.

Download the Guide to Cultural Learning Styles to learn how to design and deliver learning experiences that truly connect with learners around the world. Discover ways to localize content, balance individual and group learning, adapt tone and pacing to cultural preferences, and communicate program goals clearly across regions.

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