Developing your Global Leadership

All managers working in a multi-cultural environment or with people - colleagues, partners, clients - from different cultures, in face-to-face or at distance.

All managers who wants to adjust their leadership style to various cultural contexts.

• Eligible for CPF*
• Create your Cultural Profile
• Access to 70 Country Packs
• Pragmatic, fun e-learning
• Interactive method
• Acquire operational tools

The objective of this seminar is to significantly improve participant’s ability to communicate in a multicultural context and convince foreign contacts. The objective is to enable them to develop their international leadership skills.

At the end of this training, participants will have acquired insights and techniques to:

• Measure the consequences of one’s culture on his working style
• Anticipate and prevent breakdowns in communication stemming from cultural differences
• Identify common cultural preferences within professional/business cultures
• Develop common values to ensure effective cooperation
• Acquire the necessary tools to successfully work and manage within a cross-cultural environment

Module 1: Identifying our leadership style in an international context

1. Pinpointing different leadership styles

• Describing leadership components
• Discovering one’s favourite style
• Analysing seven styles of management

2. Developing awareness of culture’s impact on communication

• The origins of culture and value systems
• Understanding the origins of culture and value systems
• Analysing prejudices and stereotypes
• Identifying sources of ambiguity and incomprehension
• Reconciling difference

3. Decoding cultures

• How time and space are managed
• Reasoning styles, risk-taking and change management
• Social relationships with individuals and groups
• Importance attached to tasks and relationships
• Communication (implicit, explicit and non-verbal messages)
• Power distance, status and acceptance of rules
• Expression of emotions in the workplace, conflict management

4. Analysing one’s cultural profile

• Getting used with cultural profiles
• Discovering one’s individual profile
• Comparison of cultural profiles

Module 2: Enhancing international leadership

1. Cross-cultural communication

• Communication methods and styles
• The linguistic factor in cross-cultural situations
• The quest for clarity and meaning in order to avoid ambiguity
• The caracteristics of long distance communication

2. Creating a climate of trust

• Factors having an influence upon trust
• Obtaining information about each culture represented within the team structure
• Maximising cultural synergy: making the most of proximity
• Resolving cultural conflicts

3. Convincing without imposing

• Using Cohen & Bradford’s influence model
• Presenting this model in six stages
• Applying the model in a cross-cultural context

4. Identifying one’s international profile

• Passing on skills, motivating and involving
• Analysing one’s behaviour in an international context
• Developing international skills Reinforcing its personal leadership