Name: The Art of Working Together in a Multi-Cultural Environment Training Course
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Course Introduction

This highly participative 10-day intensive training course focuses on developing the essential skills required for leading and managing in the modern workplace. This is a fast paced, challenging and highly rewarding course. Delegates develop their cross-cultural skills, communication, teamwork, and cooperation competencies. You will participate in a highly interactive and engaging course that will develop your practical skills.

The first part of this course will explore the meaning and psychology of culture and help you understand the impact of culture on management and leadership. You will learn to identify the areas in which cultural differences present a challenge in managing and leading employees in a multi-cultural workplace, and you will become more self-aware in cultural understanding, individual biases and assumptions and to understand the implications these have on our work.

The second part of this course will explore the nature and benefits of innovative and collaborative teams. Increasingly, companies see innovation and collaboration as a key source of competitive advantage, with benefits for motivation and engagement and developing talent, as well as team and organizational performance. In this course, you will explore the new demands on leaders, and develop essential leadership practices.

This course will feature:

Develop your multi-cultural leadership & management skills
Discover best-practice in diversity management & multi-cultural communication
Appreciate current business issues related to leading in a multi-cultural workplace
Strategies for improving your cross-cultural communication
Ways to ensure success and limit failure with international assignments
The benefits of innovation and collaboration
Building the innovative and collaborative team
Creating the right environment for innovation and collaboration
Inspiring shared purposes and common goals
Leadership practices for innovative and collaborative teams

Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

List Hofstede’s five value dimensions
Explain the meaning of each of the five value dimensions
Illustrate examples of stereotypes and stereotyping
Differentiate between transformational & transactional management
Formulate a business case for cultural diversity in their workplace
Appraise the key features and benefits of innovative and collaborative teams
Assess their team’s current and aspired innovation and collaboration skills and create an appropriate development plan
Evaluate key approaches for creating the right environment for innovation and collaboration
Examine common approaches to developing shared purposes and goals
Apply leadership practices which inspire and support team innovation, collaboration and success

Training Methodology

This course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension, and retention of the information presented. This includes dynamic presentations support each of the topics together with interactive trainer lead sessions of discussion. There will also be numerous practical sessions where participants can participate and experience topics. The course is highly Practical and will prompt delegates to reflect on current practices and their team goals. Case studies, videos, small group work, pair work, exercises, and feedback will be used to facilitate learning.

Who Should Attend?

This course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

All supervisors, Middle Managers & Department Heads
Senior Managers in multi-cultural organisations
Anyone responsible for team performance or for developing team skills and capabilities
Expatriates working on global assignments or those who manage expatriates
HR and Learning and Development professionals with responsibility for developing organizational skills and capabilities
HR Business Partners
People working in Nationalisation roles

Course Outline

Day 1: The Meaning of Culture

Our world today - the importance of demographics
What is culture?
Dimensions of culture
Hofstede’s five value dimensions
Understanding globalisation
Workplace and organisational culture

Day 2: The Psychology of Culture

Understanding personality
Stereotypes and stereotyping
Motivation and culture
Multi-cultural communication
Body-language and culture
Multi-cultural negotiation

Day 3: Leadership & Management

Theories of leadership & management
Transformational & transactional management
Developing a global mindset
Culture and strategy
Managing in multi-national companies
Multi-cultural teams and teamwork

Day 4: Managing Diverse Employees in a Multi-cultural Workplace

The business case for cultural diversity
Managerial roles in diversity
Discovering cultural advantage
Diversity and teams
Nationalisation programmes
Providing feedback and performance appraisal in a multi-cultural workplace

Day 5: Current Issues in International Business

International assignments and global career development
Culture shock and global working
International Human Resource issues
Culture and decision-making
Personal action planning

Day 6: The Benefits of Innovation and Collaboration

The nature of innovation
Collaboration vs. competition
Learned behaviours
Innovative and collaborative teams
The innovative and collaborative team mindset

Day 7: Building the Innovative and Collaborative Team

Innovative and collaborative team values
High performance goals and metrics
Innovation and collaborative skills
Appraising team skills
Designing a team development programme

Day 8: Creating the Right Environment for Innovation and Collaboration

The new role of leadership
Individual creative work
Individual strengths and blind spots
Trust and communication
Recognition and feeding forward
Productive conflict: a source of creativity and team cohesion

Day 9: Inspiring Shared Purposes and Common Goals

Individual preferences and goals
Developing a team picture of success
‘Force field’ analysis
Strategic priority areas
Monitoring progress and achievement

Day 10: Leadership Practices for Innovative and Collaborative Teams

Guiding principles: drawing on great experiences
Communication with and within your team
Team gatherings
Team decisions and the leader’s decision making process
Personal and team accountability
Developing a personal and team action plan

Certificate

Copex Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course

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