Training for Work in International Teams
Seminar objectives
The purpose of the seminar is to help you improve your skill and confidence in communicating with others.
To:
- Increase your own self-awareness and your awareness of others' reactions.
- Examine personal and cultural differences and how they can release creativity when dealt with constructively.
- Strengthen your knowledge base with applicable insights, concepts and methods.
- Encourage practice, experimentation and reflection.
And with this build a platform from which you can continue your personal learning and contribute positively to teamwork in your team.
The 2 1/2 day seminar is useful for:
- International teams which are starting up or are established. Also virtual teams.
- Participants who are to work in a global team, though not necessarily the same team.
Approach
The seminar deals with three levels of awareness, with interpersonal communication building upon intrapersonal awareness, and between-group communication building upon interpersonal processes:
"There is nothing so practical as a good theory". Three "theoretical models", three tools, are central to the seminar:
- A model for dialog
- The MBI model "Mapping, Bridging, Integrating" for dealing with diversity
- The ABCDE model for dealing with one's own responses.
The seminar will encourage active participation and will consist of:
Assessments using:
- The Cultural Perspectives Questionnaire (CPQ), which gives individual feedback on cultural values
- Diversity Icebreaker, for identifying a person’s preferred work and communication style
- Mini-lectures and group discussions
- Exercises and simulations (with video-feedback)
Depending on the type of team and its needs, the training can also include dealing with the special cahallenges of:
- Virtual teams
- Project teams and projects
The seminar can be held in English or Norwegian.
Contact:
Bjørn Z. Ekelund
bze@human-factors.no
