Management without Borders
Module 1: Decoding cultures
1. Identifying cultural differences
- Understanding the influence of history
- Measuring the impact of geography, regionalisms and economy
- Estimating the influence of religions, philosophies, social norms
2. Understanding the impact of globalization
- Estimating the impact of globalization on one’s mind-set
- Identifying the key factors for homogeneity
- Understanding what does unite/divide people.
3. Analysing the role of cross-cultural communication in working relationships
- Understanding the importance of power distance
- Detecting the degree of masculinity and femininity
- Measuring one’s tolerance for change and uncertainty
- Identifying individualist and collectivist cultures
- Approaching different types of time management (linear, circular, rigid, flexible)
4. Adapting communication, avoiding miscommunication
- Getting a better understanding of the unsaid
- Examining a significant body language
- Estimating distance and conviviality
- Measuring the degree of affectivity and impartiality
Module 2: Managing in cross-cultural contexts
1. Approaching different types of Management
- Understanding the meaning of “management” to each culture
- Examining different management styles
- Getting to know management strategies
- Communicating and managing
2. Identifying different perceptions of a manager's role
- Approaching the role of a manager depending on the local culture
- Understanding the manager’s perception
- Detecting what a manager is expected to do
- Inspiring confidence to local representatives
3. Managing in international contexts
- Distinguishing working relationships and personal relationships
- Establishing your objectives and priorities
- Federating and convincing an audience
- Negotiating, resolving conflicts
- Identifying dialectic relationships and interdependencies
- Detecting power struggles
4. Managing a world without borders
- Establishing one’s authority and credibility
- Developing one’s technical and managing skills
- Managing cross-functional teams
- Recruiting and rewarding
- Distance-communicating and managing
Corporate Training Solutions
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Training Cross-Cultural Management
Developing your Intercultural Leadership
Overcoming the challenges of a virtual team
Unleash the Power of Your Multicultural Team
Effective Collaboration within Remote Multicultural Teams -3 days
Effective Collaboration within Remote Multicultural Teams
Managing Multicultural Human Resources