A culturally diverse team has the potential to achieve every objective but only if there is successful collaboration and productive engagement. A key factor of collaborative success is understanding the nature of common team problems and how cultural diversity can contribute.
Intercultural competence makes way for innovative performance and productivity but only in agreement and understanding within the team. Combined with proactive and empathetic leadership, effectively utilising intercultural competences results in high-achieving and satisfied teams. Each team member holds a plethora of cultural skills, knowledge and competence, when understood and utilised effectively, it leads to improved team performance and advanced team morale. This workshop provides techniques and knowledge to enable capacity building within a culturally diverse team to use its diversity as a useful resource for innovation and success.
Course Content
- Benefit and pitfalls of cultural diversity
- Nature of team problems, and how understanding cultural diversity can help: Brain, Culture and Perception
- Intercultural competence as a key factor of team’s success
- Assessing Team Intercultural Readiness
- Designing a team that benefit from their diversity
- Role of leadership
- Team alignment and agreement
Course Outcomes
By the end of this workshop, attendees will be able to:
- Motivated to take advantage of a diverse workforce
- Be proactive in applying the intercultural competence skills
- Further develop own leadership skills to manage the culturally diverse workplace and community
- Be able to recognise the opportunity for better team performance
- Develop a set of strategies for team improvement
Benefits to your Organisation
- Better understanding of the complexities of a culturally diverse team
- Increased level of intercultural team engagement
- Improved level of team member’s wellness and motivation
- Enhanced performance and productivity
- Stronger teams
- Positive morals and team culture
Benefits to you
- Better understanding of the attributes to the challenges of working in culturally diverse environments
- Clear understanding of your role in the culturally mixed team
- Willingness to be the member of high performing team
- Practical strategies to manage cultural diversity
- Increased empathy for others
- Feeling safe in the team
