Intercultural project management: 200 experts from
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Intercultural project management – In-house Training

Seminar Content:

Open Training Intercultural project management

Training locations:
Hanover / Munich / Stuttgart / Frankfurt / Berlin / Hamburg / Düsseldorf / Cologne / Vienna / Zurich AND ONLINE

Investment:
3,490.- Euro plus VAT per participant.
From 2 participants from the same company: 2,490 euros plus VAT / participant.

Specific intercultural training

Global Cultures

Academy for Intercultural Management

+49 6195 969 34 06
Frankfurt
+49 800 181 51 15
Munich
+49 800 181 51 15
Stuttgart
+49 800 181 51 15
Hamburg
+49 800 181 51 15
Düsseldorf
+49 800 181 51 15
Cologne
+43 1 229 74 06
Vienna
+41 43 508 03 71
Zurich
Testimonials

High transaction costs due to frictional losses in an international project team: unfortunately often a reality!

The ability to work efficiently in a project team is one of the core competencies of every project team member. The complexity and challenges for both project managers and team members are increased in international teams by the international component. However, this is often ignored in traditional project team developments!
The differences and potential that the various project team members bring with them due to their different cultural backgrounds and that make international collaboration so valuable are often not used productively. This makes international project teamwork more of an obstacle than a benefit!

Common obstacles in international project teamwork include

  • Insufficient cross-border communication and lack of intercultural communication skills.
  • Lack of international leadership skills.
  • Different cultural motivators.
  • Different expectations of leadership.
  • Different conflict styles and conflict behavior.
  • Virtual international cooperation as an additional challenge.

This list could be continued in a frightening way.

Increase productivity

With our development programs and training courses, we support you and your international project team in avoiding high costs and making sustainable use of your team potential! This allows you to make optimum use of your resources, which are further enhanced by the international diversity in your team, and achieve sustainable success after just a short time!

External, internationally experienced moderators are the basis for success:

  • Thanks to many years of decisive expertise in international practice in the development of global high-performance teams, they have the necessary tools for a successful project
  • With their neutral perspective, they are neither partisan nor part of the system, thus guaranteeing a development that focuses on the matter at hand, uninfluenced by possible political and personal sensitivities
  • You have a range of methodically efficient tools at your disposal to accelerate team development

Our systemic and holistic approach

Successful project management across different locations, time zones and cultural influences requires a change in leadership attitude and special knowledge about intercultural project work and virtual leadership. In this training course, you will reflect on the particular challenges facing your leadership role and learn about the success factors for efficient international project management in a virtual environment. You will expand your knowledge of the effects of working in a virtual environment and discuss the use of the right media in specific situations. You will learn to distinguish between cultural, personal and structural conflicts, recognize the causes of conflicts in advance and develop solution-oriented approaches.

No two companies are the same, every personality is different and so are the respective goals. This is why every international project team is unique. Sustainable international project team development that does not take these factors into account is no more possible than a perfectly fitting off-the-peg suit. It has to be adapted to you so that it fits properly. Otherwise you are dressed, but not clothed. For this reason, we generate a development process together with you that ensures that our joint international team development leads to the desired path to success.

Training goals

  • Participants recognize the characteristics of key cultural features and their different effects on project work and project management in an international virtual context.
  • Participants understand cultural, personal and organizational characteristics in the context of successful project management.
  • The participants create awareness of cultural differences to the target countries.
  • Participants become aware of their own culturally influenced behaviors and needs and are enabled to expand their comfort zone.
  • The participants increase both their own motivation and that of their project team members through culturally appropriate behavior and the avoidance of culturally induced misunderstandings and potential frustration.
  • The participants know in which phases international project teams develop and what these phases look like.

Training goals

  • Participants are prepared to competently perform their management tasks in the various phases of project team development.
  • Significant improvement in internal and external communication and the flow of information – everyone involved acts faster and in a more targeted manner!
  • Clarification of the roles of the team members within the international project team – resolution of role conflicts!
  • Clarification of the mutual expectations of managers/clients (stakeholders) and team members – avoid unrealistic expectations and misunderstandings!
  • Clarification of the additional requirements for international virtual collaboration -Reliable fulfillment of team tasks, even remotely and across borders!
  • Identifying the strengths and potential of the project team as the basis for team success – Accelerating activities and correctly channeling tasks!

Why us?

To ensure a high-quality methodical approach, our experts have one or more of the following qualifications:

  • Certification as intercultural trainers from renowned international institutes
  • Coach training
  • Experience as a systemic organizational developer

In this way, we ensure the quality standards we set ourselves and our customers.

Practical tips for efficient intercultural collaboration

A good solution for many countries – our intercultural training is practical for 112 countries.

Global Cultures – Academy for Intercultural Management offers you a broad spectrum of: intercultural training and intercultural coaching — from general preparation training for short-term projects abroad to exclusive seminars and industry-specific intercultural troubleshooting. Intercultural training from Global Cultures is specially tailored to the requirements of internationally active companies and corporations. We place particular emphasis on the benefits for everyday business. Your employees learn how to deal with the other culture and can thus better respond to intercultural peculiarities.

Global Cultures

Academy for Intercultural Management

+49 6195 969 34 06
Frankfurt
+49 800 181 51 15
Munich
+49 800 181 51 15
Stuttgart
+49 800 181 51 15
Hamburg
+49 800 181 51 15
Düsseldorf
+49 800 181 51 15
Cologne
+43 1 229 74 06
Vienna
+41 43 508 03 71
Zurich
Hochstraße 1
D-65779 Kelkheim

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Self-reflection and input on efficient intercultural project management

"What am I standing on securely, what is in my stomach, what is breathing down my neck, what is close to my heart" (self-reflection)
Target:

  • Create clarity about strengths and needs
  • Prioritization of challenges with a focus on the position and the associated tasks
  • Own expectations of project management: "How do I want to be managed?" (self-reflection)
  • Clarification of own values and preferred behavioral expectations of leadership
The role of project management and project work compared to the target countries
  • Basic expectations of project management and project work in the target countries
  • Basic attitude that can be derived from this role
  • Comparison with the expectations of the new role in the target countries and your own attitude
  • "Gap Analysis"

Goals:

  • Creating awareness of similarities and differences in project management and project leadership
  • Create behavioral alternatives

Methods: Input, discussion, case studies, exercises, role plays, reflections

Efficient teamwork
  • The understanding of teamwork in the target countries compared to Germany / Austria / Switzerland
  • Your own expectations and understanding of teamwork
  • Identifying striking similarities and significant differences
  • Adaptation or expansion of behavioral strategies

Goals:

  • Developing an appreciative attitude towards different understandings of teamwork
  • Create motivation
  • Goal-oriented and effective teamwork
Intercultural project team development: Team Clock
  • Introducing the Team Clock
  • Assessment of the "current" status of the team: "Where exactly are we and how do we determine this?"
  • Developing concrete measures for the next stage of development in international, predominantly virtual cooperation
  • Determining binding measures

Goals:

  • Sharpening awareness of international project team dynamics
  • Closing gaps in predominantly virtual intercultural project teamwork
  • Promoting the development of the team from within
Professional communication - direct vs. indirect
  • Differences in communication styles
  • Your own communication preference
  • Bridging the gap between your own preferences and the cultural requirements for communication

Goals:

  • Recognizing the differences
  • Stretching your own comfort zone - adaptation strategies
Professional feedback in project work and conflict discussions
  • Expectations of the feedback style in the target countries
  • Comparison with own feedback behavior
  • Negative feedback, style of criticism and behavior

Goals:

  • Acceptance through adequate feedback behavior
  • Direct communication of challenges: Creating acceptance and trust
Hierarchy and leadership behavior in the target countries
  • Hierarchy structures target countries - Germany / Austria / Switzerland in comparison
  • Behavioral expectations with regard to hierarchical structures
  • Comparison with own behavioral expectations and development of culturally adapted behaviors

Goals:

  • Recognizing opportunities and limits within the framework of hierarchies
  • Reflection on culturally appropriate behavior and expansion of the behavioral repertoire
Transfer to the virtual context
  • You develop well-functioning strategies for collaboration in an international virtual team
  • You create binding communication patterns for successful virtual teamwork
  • They create an atmosphere of trust in a multinational virtual context

Goals:

  • Increased awareness of virtual communication difficulties in an intercultural context
  • Define behavior-specific prerequisites for successfully overcoming intercultural obstacles in a virtual context
  • Apply specific patterns of teamwork to intercultural work in a virtual environment
Lessons Learned
  • Comparison with the statements from "What am I standing on securely, what's on my mind, what's breathing down my neck, what's close to my heart" - self-reflection and reflection on the steps of realization and learning
  • Define and prioritize specific development steps and develop an action plan
  • Feedback and farewell

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  • January 23-24, 2025
  • January 27-28, 2025
  • February 17-18, 2025
  • February 24-25, 2025
  • March 10-11, 2025
  • March 17-18, 2025
  • April 7-8, 2025
  • April 14-15, 2025
  • May 8-9, 2025
  • May 19-20, 2025
  • June 2-3, 2025
  • June 26-27, 2025
  • July 14-15, 2025
  • July 28-29, 2025
  • August 4-5, 2025
  • August 25-26, 2025
  • September 8-9, 2025
  • September 29-30, 2025
  • October 13-14, 2025
  • October 27-28, 2025
  • November 3-4, 2025
  • November 24-25, 2025
  • December 1-2, 2025
  • December 8-9, 2025

Sollten Sie an den genannten Terminen bereits anderweitige Verpflichtungen haben, kontaktieren Sie uns. Aufgrund der Nachfragesituation für interkulturelle Trainings Intercultural project management ergeben sich kurzfristig in vielen Fällen alternative Termine.

Um unseren Kunden bestmöglich entgegen zu kommen und einen hohen Mehrwert zu bieten, führen wir offene interkulturelle Seminare Intercultural project management in ausgewählten Fällen auch bereits mit einem Teilnehmer durch.

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Self-reflection and input on efficient intercultural project management

"What am I standing on securely, what is in my stomach, what is breathing down my neck, what is close to my heart" (self-reflection)
Target:

  • Create clarity about strengths and needs
  • Prioritization of challenges with a focus on the position and the associated tasks
  • Own expectations of project management: "How do I want to be managed?" (self-reflection)
  • Clarification of own values and preferred behavioral expectations of leadership
The role of project management and project work compared to the target countries
  • Basic expectations of project management and project work in the target countries
  • Basic attitude that can be derived from this role
  • Comparison with the expectations of the new role in the target countries and your own attitude
  • "Gap Analysis"

Goals:

  • Creating awareness of similarities and differences in project management and project leadership
  • Create behavioral alternatives

Methods: Input, discussion, case studies, exercises, role plays, reflections

Efficient teamwork
  • The understanding of teamwork in the target countries compared to Germany / Austria / Switzerland
  • Your own expectations and understanding of teamwork
  • Identifying striking similarities and significant differences
  • Adaptation or expansion of behavioral strategies

Goals:

  • Developing an appreciative attitude towards different understandings of teamwork
  • Create motivation
  • Goal-oriented and effective teamwork
Intercultural project team development: Team Clock
  • Introducing the Team Clock
  • Assessment of the "current" status of the team: "Where exactly are we and how do we determine this?"
  • Developing concrete measures for the next stage of development in international, predominantly virtual cooperation
  • Determining binding measures

Goals:

  • Sharpening awareness of international project team dynamics
  • Closing gaps in predominantly virtual intercultural project teamwork
  • Promoting the development of the team from within
Professional communication - direct vs. indirect
  • Differences in communication styles
  • Your own communication preference
  • Bridging the gap between your own preferences and the cultural requirements for communication

Goals:

  • Recognizing the differences
  • Stretching your own comfort zone - adaptation strategies
Professional feedback in project work and conflict discussions
  • Expectations of the feedback style in the target countries
  • Comparison with own feedback behavior
  • Negative feedback, style of criticism and behavior

Goals:

  • Acceptance through adequate feedback behavior
  • Direct communication of challenges: Creating acceptance and trust
Hierarchy and leadership behavior in the target countries
  • Hierarchy structures target countries - Germany / Austria / Switzerland in comparison
  • Behavioral expectations with regard to hierarchical structures
  • Comparison with own behavioral expectations and development of culturally adapted behaviors

Goals:

  • Recognizing opportunities and limits within the framework of hierarchies
  • Reflection on culturally appropriate behavior and expansion of the behavioral repertoire
Transfer to the virtual context
  • You develop well-functioning strategies for collaboration in an international virtual team
  • You create binding communication patterns for successful virtual teamwork
  • They create an atmosphere of trust in a multinational virtual context

Goals:

  • Increased awareness of virtual communication difficulties in an intercultural context
  • Define behavior-specific prerequisites for successfully overcoming intercultural obstacles in a virtual context
  • Apply specific patterns of teamwork to intercultural work in a virtual environment
Lessons Learned
  • Comparison with the statements from "What am I standing on securely, what's on my mind, what's breathing down my neck, what's close to my heart" - self-reflection and reflection on the steps of realization and learning
  • Define and prioritize specific development steps and develop an action plan
  • Feedback and farewell

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  • January 23-24, 2025
  • January 27-28, 2025
  • February 17-18, 2025
  • February 24-25, 2025
  • March 10-11, 2025
  • March 17-18, 2025
  • April 7-8, 2025
  • April 14-15, 2025
  • May 8-9, 2025
  • May 19-20, 2025
  • June 2-3, 2025
  • June 26-27, 2025
  • July 14-15, 2025
  • July 28-29, 2025
  • August 4-5, 2025
  • August 25-26, 2025
  • September 8-9, 2025
  • September 29-30, 2025
  • October 13-14, 2025
  • October 27-28, 2025
  • November 3-4, 2025
  • November 24-25, 2025
  • December 1-2, 2025
  • December 8-9, 2025

If you already have other commitments on the dates mentioned, please contact us. Due to the demand for intercultural training, Intercultural project management alternative dates often arise at short notice.

In order to best accommodate our clients and offer high added value, we conduct open intercultural seminars Intercultural project management in selected cases even with one participant.

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