A West German electronics corporation designed a workshop to provide managers with fast access to the American culture through the cues provided in American language. The aim was to promote more effective communication with American business partners through sensitization to American communication styles, their principal modes of expression, their origins in value patterns, and how they operate as communication cues. Two basic instructional methods are used, dependent on the linguistic skills of the group. The first begins with examination of central "moves" or linguistic elements in the overall communication strategy ("anchor gambits") and progresses to study of alternative ways to communicate the same thing, the role of intonation, emphasis, intended message in coded form, body language, and finally, synthesis of elements for one communication style such as small talk, presentations, or negotiation. The second method takes the process in reverse, beginning with the communication style and working back to the anchor gambits. Planned pedagogical strategies were developed for each method. Twenty main American values are studied. American trainers, Americans with little experience with German or Germans, and German managers participate in the workshop's intercultural interactions, which occur in the form of role-playing. (MSE)