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.

• 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

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

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

3. Decoding cultures

• Becoming aware of your own cultural background
• Using the Nomad' Profile's frame of reference
• Analyzing decision making, reasoning, conflict management, communication, management according to cultures
• Reconcliling differences for better synergy

4. Analysing one’s cultural profile

• Discovering one’s individual profile
• Establishing the group's cultural profile and comparison of the different cultural profiles

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
• Maximising cultural synergy: making the most of proximity
• Resolving cultural conflicts
• Unite remote interlocutors

3. Convincing without imposing

• Using Cohen & Bradford’s influence model
• Applying the model in a cross-cultural context
• Reinforcing its personal leadership

4. Identifying good practices

• Listing the skills identified
• Analyzing its strengths and areas of improvement
• To bring out good practices and build an action plan