Who is this training for?
For specialists, Team Leaders, and managers who work in international teams and want to improve their intercultural competence.
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What you will learn in the virtual workshop:
- to build relationships and trust with people from different cultures,
- to understand the differences in the approach to communication and adapt your messages to the other cultures,
- how the approach to time translates into everyday work and project management,
- to receive and provide feedback, taking into account the preferences of people from different cultures.
Advantages of the virtual training
- guarantee of interactive participation in training with the use of online engaging tools
- half-day workshops allow flexible organization of the workday
- relationships building with remote colleagues through joint participation in training
- participation in the workshop from anywhere, all you need is access to a computer
Virtual workshops program
Module I
Approach to work in different cultures
- Cultural background – how does it impact cooperation?
- Stereotypes and biases – where do they come from and how can they impact my approach to my colleagues?
- Culture as an iceberg – values and beliefs versus behaviors – how to adapt a non-judgemental approach?
- Looking for what we have in common as a way to develop cross-cultural cooperation
- First impression – how to build it in an intercultural team?
- Different patterns of building relationship and trust across cultures
- Coconuts and peaches, trust and distrust cultures – how to understand and work with the approach of your colleagues to building relations
- Introduction to culture dimensions as ways to understand the impact of intercultural differences on business
Module II
Approach to communication in different cultures
- Timeliness or flexibility– what approach to time is expected in chosen cultures
- Power distance – approach to hierarchy in various cultures
- How best to approach your boss?
- What is considered „a job well done” across cultures?
- Formal e-mails, calls, written word – what to base our communication
- Cultural dimensions of communication: direct or indirect feedback, assertiveness, approach to conflict – examples from various cultures
- My communication style vs. other communication styles – high and low context
- How to speak to be listened to – preferred ways of presenting solutions in various cultures
Project flow
Diagnosis and prework
- in-take interview with the project sponsor
- diagnosis of participants’ needs (online questionnaire and calls)
- prework for participants (material to watch, read or listen to)
Virtual workshops
- training divided into 2 workshops, 3,5 hours each
- interactive working methods: discussions, chat, virtual board, questionnaires, videos, case studies, breakout rooms, external tools (Mentimeter, Miro, Funretro)
- participants: up to 12 people
Summary and follow up
- training materials for participants
- access to the ETTA knowledge base
- follow up call with the project sponsor