Managing International Teams

Why attend Managing International Teams? Now more than ever, there is greater opportunity for international collaboration for global and virtual teams. The benefits this brings are obvious but less so are the frustrations, conflicts and challenges of dealing daily with individuals from different cultures.

Managing International Teams has been designed to help you understand your international counterparts and colleagues more effectively, allowing you to select and deploy some of the elements of their cultures to maximise teamwork and strengthen group performance and co-ordination.

Benefits

This programme provides participants with the tools to:

• Develop a greater awareness of the values, attitudes and behaviours of different cultures
• Communicate more effectively - both face-to-face and remotely with colleagues from
  other cultures
• Benefit practically from the different ideas and approaches of team members from other cultures
• Plan and coordinate working in crosscultural teams
• Manage cross-cultural conflict with greater success

Who should attend?

Anyone who:

• Has a global function within their organisation
• Regularly manages international project teams
• Manages or collaborates with team members from different cultures

Programme Content

• Cross-cultural issues at work
• Benefits and challenges of cross-cultural team working
• Cross-cultural values and attitudes within teams
• Working practices & styles
• Strategies for international team building
• Organisational culture and the concept of a 'third culture'
• Strategies and solutions for effective team working
• Achieving successful communication within your team
• English as the language of international communication
• How to cope with the challenges of virtual communication