Leading Cross-Culturally

Successful teams in most global businesses consists of multiple people, from different walks of life and cultures.

A ‘one size fits all’ approach to leadership no longer works in an international setting. Understanding, appreciating and managing different cultures and developing ‘Cultural Intelligence’ is now an essential tool.

This course helps leaders take stock of the cultural differences that exist in their teams, understand the top challenges they face in managing culturally diverse teams and provide them with the tools to bring those teams together for improved collaboration and performance.

Course Content

Setting the context

Establishing the cross-cultural nature of today’s businesses.
The challenges of interpreting behaviours across cultures.*

Heart

The Heart, Mind, Body model approach.
Talking from the Heart (your personal motivation for building CQ).
Spotting cultural differences within local and global teams.
Activities for Building your CQ.

Mind

Successfully analysing and interpreting behaviours across different cultural paradigms
Recognising the top challenges within culturally diverse teams.
Building awareness of certain unconscious bias and the power of Head Office location.
Self-assessment of your style and those of your team.

Body

Managing the challenges of cultural differences.
Using a selection of mini-case studies, determine how you would manage certain challenging situations (motivation, team bonding, communication, working style).

Course Approach

CHALLENGE

How we may perceive and interpret behaviours in difference cultures.
Where cultural power comes from.

CREATE

A deeper understanding of how different cultural paradigms show up in team dynamics.
A sense of empathy and appreciation for differences and how to leverage those differences.

CHANGE

How you help your teams to collectively adapt to cultural differences.
Your internal processes that foster cultural inclusion and minimise the impact of cultural diversity.

Embedding Success

Post programme activities to support the transfer of learning and building of habits.

CHALLENGE

Select some upcoming business interactions. They could be via email, video-conference or face to face meetings. Take moment to describe what you see. What are the cultural differences at play. How could you appreciate these differences?

CREATE

Consider one or two colleagues that culturally, operate in a different way to you. Describe those changes. How will you better adapt (heart, mind, body) to those differences in your next interactions?

CHANGE

Reflect on some cross-cultural challenges at a team level. What processes or interventions could be adopted to overcome those team challenges. How could you assist other team members to build a CQ culture?

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96%

of participants felt more confident in their role, following an Alpha commercial leadership course.

Why study with Alpha?

Innovation and creativity born from experience

We are thought leaders in instructional and learning journey design and holistic solution architects. We have extensive finance and investments experience combined with skills application to deliver performance improving results. We develop immersive learning environments that maximize time to productivity, support talent retention and added value to improving quality of hires.

Knowledge Exchange Evangelists

We are focused on mining the embedded organisational intellectual capital for the benefit of the next generation. We create and curate best in class practice gathered from our experience with the leading financial institutions. We design our programmes with the end in mind – what results are you trying to achieve with this intervention? What metrics will we set ourselves to achieve that?

Generation Proof

Quality and innovation, using current market and industry best practices, have made us a trusted partner in delivering dynamic and motivating training for the financial and capital markets. Our programmes are generation proof and responsive to evolving learner needs and styles. Our solutions use a multi-stakeholder engagement strategy that expands beyond relationships between the learner and learning provider. We create connections with managers, peers and the wider business to drive impactful return on investment..

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