Working Cross Culturally

Successful global businesses, in their desire to acquire the best talent, develop diverse teams and support world-wide clients need a workforce that can navigate cultural differences.

These differences can exist as local teams need to interact with team around the world or because the diverse workforce have people from many cultures in the same office.

This Working Cross Culturally course will help participants understand, appreciate and adapt to these cultural differences and help any team member to establish better relationships and drive performance.

Course Content

Setting the context

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

Appreciate

Review and appreciate a selection of common and practical cultural differences and how they show up at work

Analyse

Successfully analysing and interpreting behaviours across different cultural paradigms
Self-assessment of your style and those of your team

Adapt

Managing the mindset of cultural differences
Using a selection of mini-case studies, determine how you would adapt to certain challenging situations

Course Approach

CHALLENGE

How we may perceive and interpret behaviours in difference cultures

CREATE

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

CHANGE

Build an action plan to adapt the way we interact and work with people cross-culturally
How we might help our teams to collectively adapt to cultural differences

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 (mindset and actions) to those differences in your next interactions?

CHANGE

Reflect on some cross-cultural challenges within your team. What could you do to Appreciate, Analyse and Adapt to these differences. How could you assist other team members to do the same?

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Why study with Alpha?

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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.

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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?

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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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