Working Across Multicultural Environment
Roundtable Description
This course enables participants to collaborate more effectively by resolving conflict in ways that build relationships.
A greater cultural similarity between people tends to create ease of understanding, commonality, and relatedness, which naturally facilitates easier communication. On the contrary, cultural differences between colleagues tend to highlight variances such as language, terminology, respect for authority, group identity, the directness of communication, and reaction to ambiguity. These differences frequently cause communication issues, including difficulty understanding someone or conveying meaning to someone, or unanticipated adverse responses to a comment. Cultural differences affect management styles, project delivery, and employee development. As the global workforce is becoming ethnically diverse, organizations must adapt and develop so that employees, key decision-makers, managers, and leaders start to make inclusive decisions in all aspects.
During this course, participants will present an issue they are currently dealing with and receive input through a facilitated discussion with their peers.
A greater cultural similarity between people tends to create ease of understanding, commonality, and relatedness, which naturally facilitates easier communication. On the contrary, cultural differences between colleagues tend to highlight variances such as language, terminology, respect for authority, group identity, the directness of communication, and reaction to ambiguity. These differences frequently cause communication issues, including difficulty understanding someone or conveying meaning to someone, or unanticipated adverse responses to a comment. Cultural differences affect management styles, project delivery, and employee development. As the global workforce is becoming ethnically diverse, organizations must adapt and develop so that employees, key decision-makers, managers, and leaders start to make inclusive decisions in all aspects.
During this course, participants will present an issue they are currently dealing with and receive input through a facilitated discussion with their peers.
Outcomes
As a result of discussions and input from peers, participants will be able to apply what they have learned from this program to achieve the following outcomes:
- In-depth cultural awareness and understanding of the impact of cultural differences.
- The necessary foundation and tools to become culturally competent.
- A better understanding of the cultural challenges facing multicultural workplaces.
- The opportunity to enhance cultural sensitivity and competence.Practical tools to reduce cross-cultural misunderstanding and encourage positive cross-cultural working relationships.