Leading in a Global Environment

Adapt your leadership style to work well across boundaries and cultures. Recent statistics indicate that most international leaders find cross-cultural leadership to be one of the biggest challenges they face in the global business world. While it’s not possible to master the norms and values of every culture, global leadership can be highly effective with the right strategy and approach. This Live Online seminar gives you specific techniques and tools to help you function across borders and cultural boundaries in a manner that reflects well on your leadership role. You’ll increase your ability to manage diverse teams and customers, command and demonstrate greater respect and establish positive global relationships that can help you accomplish all your goals.

• Onsite

How You Will Benefit

• Increase your confidence as a leader when working globally
• Develop an ability to adapt to a variety of cultural situations
• Avoid unintentionally offending others
• Utilize a model and assessment to make culture-appropriate decisions
• Use a Cultural Intelligence framework to understand core differences
• Build partnerships and leverage the diversity of multicultural teams
• Collaborate effectively across boundaries in your current leadership role
• Work across vertical, horizontal, stakeholder, demographic and geographic boundaries

What You Will Cover

• Recognizing how global and domestic leadership differ
• Universally acceptable and unacceptable traits
• Exploring culturally contingent traits
• Understanding CQ (Cultural Intelligence)

LESSON 2

Leveraging Collaboration as a Global Leader and Building Partnerships and Alliances

• Implementing global leadership techniques for fostering global collaboration
• Analyzing professional networks
• Developing a plan to increase network effectiveness

LESSON 3

Communicating Across Boundaries

• Assessing what drives miscommunications in cross-culture work
• Implementing ways to improve cross-cultural communications
• Discussing the role of technology in cross-cultural communications
• Devloping a global communications plan

LESSON 4

Managing Conflict as a Global Leader

• Understanding conflict style and its connection to an invididual's culture
• Techniques for avoiding conflicts through improved communication
• Utilizing a seven-step process for managing conflict

Life Balance as a Global Leader

• Stress and life balance challenges that global leaders face
• Recognizing emotional reactions that create stress and changing them
• Tips for optimizing balance
• Knowing a leader’s role in modeling life balance and stress management tools
• Action planning for the future

Who Should Attend