Workshops

Innovation from Cross-Cultural Teamwork
Create High-Performing Global Teams for Better Business Results
Leading Diverse Teams Worldwide
Enable Change Through Global Diversity & Inclusion
Managing Virtual Teams Effectively
Cultural Diversity is Also a Man-Woman Thing
Reducing Bias in the Workplace
"Working Effectively with Colleagues In…" Series

Innovation from Cross-Cultural Teamwork

Work more effectively in your cross-cultural teams located around the world. This workshop will describe real-life examples where culture impacts business and will help participants create strategies to foster innovation from cross-cultural teamwork. After this workshop, participants will be able to:

Understand how diverse people think, decide, and communicate.
Improve communication by phone, e-mail, and face-to-face
Use a tool to work in and manage teams around the globe

Create High-Performing Global Teams for Better Business Results

Maximizing your team’s productivity is challenging, particularly when they’re located all around the world. Studies show that global teams perform better when they’re managed well. Learn how to create high-performing global teams to improve overall business results. After this workshop, participants will be able to:

Set-up a global team
Motivate individual team members for overall team success
Understand the impact of culture on team communication
Create strategies to foster optimal productivity

Leading Diverse Teams

Leading diverse teams requires special skills from leaders. Asking and listening, communicating across cultures, seeing the other’s perspective, and clarifying expectations are just some of the skills leaders require. This workshop will help you, as a leader, get the results from your teams you want. After the workshop, leaders will be able to:

Understand their own style and way of communicating
Understand others dimensions of diversity
Manage these expectations successfully
Know the impact of different leadership styles on motivation
Leveraging diversity to lead global teamwork productively

Enable Change Through Global Diversity & Inclusion

Change happens when a cultural shift in mindset occurs… Global Diversity & Inclusion workshops teach participants how to understand the different attitudes, values, and viewpoints people hold in your company. How do people make decisions? What do they prioritize or value as tasks? Companies today need to understand the impact of Diversity dimensions when doing business globally. Culture, generation, gender, etc, all impact the way a person views the world and how they’ll operate, communicate, and perform in an organization. How will you create an inclusive environment in your organization? After this workshop participants will be able to:

Understand how Diversity & Inclusion makes global business work
Allow for an inclusive environment which promotes workforce effectiveness
Create change in the organization by understanding and fostering D&I
Hire, retain, and manage diverse employees and perspectives

Managing Virtual Teams Effectively

Even with a plethora of excellent on-line tools, one of the biggest challenges companies still face today is successfully managing virtual teams. How can you get your team to work together effectively? What about time zones, different (cultural) approaches to technology, keeping the team’s attention in a meeting? How can you team-build when folks don’t know each other? What’s their motivation? Attendees in this workshop will learn to:

Help their team cooperate across time-zones and distance
Create incentives for individual team member participation
Develop methods for successful virtual project management
Get tips to ensure your virtual team’s ability to keep on schedule, improve communication, and stay motivated

Cultural Diversity Is Also a Man-Woman Thing

Men hold key positions of power in organizations; women are 50% of the workforce worldwide. The buying power of women is higher than men and female-owned businesses in the United States are growing four times faster than male-owned. But even with these statistics, the fact is we work together, so it makes financial sense to improve teamwork across the genders. After this workshop, participants will be able to:

Identify key differences in thought patterns of men and women
Improve understanding of why we communicate the way we do
Work more effectively across genders for business success
Utilize the benefits of our diverse perspectives

Reducing Bias in the Workplace

Bias and stereotypes are natural in our biological process as human beings, yet unhelpful when it comes to doing business across diverse perspectives and global subsidiaries. It is important to recognize our biases and see beyond them to take advantage of the Diversity in our organizations. In this workshop, participants will be able to:

Recognize their own biases
Interrupt their biases for more positive interactions worldwide
Intervene in biased systems or procedures when they see them
Create strategies for eliminating bias in the organization

“Working Effectively with Colleagues In…” Series

Learn how to effectively communicate with colleagues from another culture. Understand the way they give feedback, deal with conflict, disagree, share challenges, are motivated to work on a task. The workshop will also deal with how a specific culture shares information, and what expectations they have in presenting ideas, holding meetings or selling products. Concepts which will be covered in the workshop are: formality, humor, thought patterns, convincing someone to do something, the meaning behind words, planning, and project management.

Countries Include*: USA, Germany, India, China, South Africa, Mexico

*We work with colleagues all over the world, ask for a country location you’d like to hold a workshop about and we’ll provide it for you.