Managing Multinational Teams
Opis
How effective are you at leading global teams? Are your team members genuinely following you, or are they just pretending? Are your decisions being debated, rejected, or ignored? Do they ask for your support, or do they seek it elsewhere? If you are facing these challenges, this course is perfect for you! It will help you understand the diverse world and your subordinates' expectations, as well as provide strategies for bridging the gaps.
This course aims to provide a fundamental understanding of the mechanisms behind intercultural collaboration. Rather than focusing extensively on cultural differences, we will delve into their causes and the underlying mechanisms. As a result, participants will gain valuable knowledge for leading international projects and building successful long-term intercultural relationships. The course is structured as a workshop, incorporating video materials, emails, and virtual communication, and is based on a case study of international team design.
The training covers the following chapters:
- Global Leadership – Understand the challenges of managing distributed teams across cultures
- Culture Knowledge – Learn about cultural particularities, including dos and don'ts
- Cultural Dimensions – Gain insights into cultural characteristics based on scientific research relevant to essential business skills such as planning, communicating, evaluating, and decision-making.
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Be mindful when meeting and working with colleagues from other cultures
- Be able to profile the culture of the colleagues and subordinates and find dos and don’ts
- Adapt their communication style to match cultural expectations
- Be able to make decisions and communicate them in an appropriate way
- Understand scheduling particularities across cultures
- Build trust and excellent relationships.
wydawany jest certyfikat
Cele
- Decode the cross-cultural challenges.
- Improving competence in managing multicultural projects;
- Being more effective in managing decisions, feedback, and communicating across cultures
- Anticipating areas of difficulty/friction resulting from cultural differences in projects - and responding to them effectively.
Grupa docelowa
- Team leaders
- Managers
Plan działania
- What does it mean to lead global teams?
- Culture Knowledge. What is culture, and how does culture work? Why should we be interested in culture, and how can we reach deeper layers of culture; Generalizations, Stereotyping, Blind-spots.
- Cultural Dimensions for Business: Time, Trust, Power Distance, Communication.
- The first international meeting - How to build successful contact from the very first impressions, which aspects are important in the first contact for people of different cultures.
- Managing multinational team meetings -. Face-to-face and virtual meetings. What can we always expect? Time planning, the role of leader, and good practices in conducting international meetings.
- Email communication in international contact. How to write tailored emails for individual cultures. Good practices in writing international emails.
- Difficult situations in international contact / intercultural competence.
- Adapting strategies.
Total: theory ~65%, practice ~ 35%