To prepare for an overseas assignment, employees will often role play various situations and practice responding in culturally sensitive ways. This process is most effective when the trainer can include people from the actual host country to help. The goal is to duplicate as closely as possible scenarios that the employees may face, such as having to question or reprimand a local employee, making a presentation to host country upper-level managers, or approaching a person of the opposite gender in countries where the sexes do not mix as freely as in the United States. This process is called