York Associates offers high quality, flexible and customised training and coaching services to its clients in the private and public sectors across the world.

Its training aims to develop people for their international role by improving performance in four key areas:

• Language: They train people to use English effectively in their international work.
• Communication: They develop people’s professional communication skills in areas like clear speaking, effective listening, rapport building and influencing, and for key situations such as international meetings, negotiations and presentations.
• Intercultural and interpersonal: They improve people’s awareness and skills to manage differences in working style arising from personality and cultural background. 
• International teamwork and leadership: They develop people’s ability to deal with the challenges of working in international teams and being successful in an international leadership role.

Athemia SA, a Kalaidos company, is the largest private sector training company in German-speaking Switzerland. Athemia regularly holds seminars on over 40 topics in the following fields:

• Leadership, communication, and building a customer-focused organisation
• Project management (including IPMA certificate preparation)
• Personal development and effectiveness
• Professional and executive education

Athemia uses a comprehensive approach that combines conventional teaching methods with online tools, so that course participants and clients can develop skills more quickly—and easily apply them to real-world situations. Visit Athemia’s website for more information.

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Médiation is a Paris-based consulting firm specialised in negotiation techniques. Its Swiss operations are housed at CRPM.

Médiation has both a narrow focus and a broad set of skills. Its narrow focus reflects the fact that it advises clients exclusively on negotiations; its broad skills come from the firm’s know-how in all areas and aspects of the art.