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Managing
cultures
Seminar agenda
Research is clear on the topic of cultural diversity in international organisations. If unmanaged, diversity can undermine the ability of professionals to cooperate. Different values and behaviours can easily lead to misunderstandings, and even conflict.
If managed well, diversity can become an advantage for teams and organisations, with diverse mindsets and experience offering the chance to innovate. This seminar explores how to manage cultural diversity and ways to capture its opportunities.
After the seminar, participants will be able to:
- increase their awareness of cultural differences, and better understand themselves and others in business-related contexts
- know key cultural dimensions significant in an international environment
- be able to draw on culture as ‘a window’ to better handle specific diversity challenges,
- be able to profile preferences on core cultural dimensions as a starting point to build trusting relationships and supportive team collaboration
- develop a more flexible range of communication behaviours to work and communicate effectively with those from diverse cultural backgrounds
- develop a more flexible range of communication behaviours to work and communicate effectively with those from diverse cultural backgrounds
Themes to be explored in this seminar:
- understanding culture
- profiling diverse business cultures
- effective intercultural communication
- a case study of leading across cultures
- Peer Coaching: persönliche Herausforderungen im interkulturellen Kontext
- building culture: leader as cultural architect