Succeeding with Global Teams: Leveraging Cultural Diversity

This seminar is jointly run by  Culture & Management Consulting and AHA MOMENTS.

Course overview:

For organizations to succeed  in a  ‘Global’  market  place, being  ‘Culturally Intelligent’ is  not  just a ‘nice-to-have’ but an  essential  part  of the organization’s tool kit. In Bulgaria today, the majority of companies, from SME’s to  Multi-Nationals employ or  engage with  people  from other  cultures.

Whilst this variety of cultures brings with it a number of day-to-day challenges, it also brings great opportunities especially for those organizations prepared to  take the time  to  understand,  accept and value these differences to gain substantial rewards.

In  international  teams,  national  and  company  cultures  influence  a  person’s  behaviour.  This workshop offers tools to  help  us  understand,  recognize  and  cope  with  cultural  differences  in individual, team and management style.

Who should attend?

This workshop is a ‘Must’ for executives,  managers and other  professionals  working  in  an  international environment or who interact on a regular basis with colleagues  from other  countries  and cultures.

Benefits

Participants will enhance their skills to work with and take advantage of cultural differences.

Programme: (09:15 to 16:30 hours)

09:00 Refreshments on arrival

09:15-12:30

   · Welcome and introduction to the workshop
   · Short interactive introduction to culture as a set of work-related norms, values and behaviours
   · Interactive session on Cultural Awareness: My culture as seen by other cultures
   · Stereotypes, efficiency, effectiveness and competence in cultural perspectives
   · Introduction to the Model of Freedom™
   · Exercise: Your Cultural Profile
   · Exercise: How to work with the Model of Freedom™

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-16:30 Workshops (Group Exercises)

We shall select from the following topics as well as topics suggested by participants:
   · Management/business cultures in countries pre-selected by participants
   · Intercultural communication, Information handling
   · Working in teams, managing conflict and confidence building

16:30 Go Home (Or somewhere else)

Price: 300lv / €150,00 per person incl. lunch, beverages and a copy of Mijnd Huijser's book 'The Cultural Advantage'

Meet the Speaker: Mijnd Huijser

Mijnd Huijser is our Key Facilitator.  He is the founder of CMC   (Culture and Management
Consulting) based in Haarlem, the Netherlands and supported by a worldwide network of Licensed Associates. He has worked on joint assignments with Geert Hofstede's Training Institute and Fons Trompenaars' THT Consultancy.  He publishes regular  culture-related articles and is the author of two books:
- The Profit of Peace on culture and ethical dilemmas faced by international business in failing states.
- The Cultural Advantage on what it takes to be a globally successful team.

Among Mijnd's many clients are 3M, Accenture,  Unilever, Philips,  KLM,  Nissan-Renault,  Canon,  Price Waterhouse Coopers and the Universities of Amsterdam and Frankfurt. He is  a  faculty  member  of  the  Unilever  Supply  Chain Academy  and  lectures  in  the  MBA  Programme  of  the European Institute of Purchasing Management in  Geneva. He holds an academic degree  in  philosophy  and  cultural anthropology.

You can also read Mijnd Huijser's interview about the seminar published in the Sofia Echo.
For more information on CMC - Culture & Management Consulting, please visit www.cmc-net.org.

You can download the pdf presentation with photographs from one of the events.
For more information about the course contact Leah Davcheva:
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tel. 02 967 10 63 / 0899 96 36 23.