Workshop: Cross-cultural management (or Inter-cultural communication) training in general
Workshop Overview:This is a very hands-on workshop. We will address personal strategy of the useful framework to manage what matters in a uncertain and/or unknown business environment in the world. A proven core cross-cultural management framework will be shown clearly and you can practice in the workshop, first by discussing them and then by practicing them- that is workshop style.
Target Audience: Foreign managers, functional managers, technical leads. Senior managers are also welcome.
Number of participants: Maximum 20 participants per workshop are preferable and less than 10 are desirable. One on One training service is also available upon request.
Language: "Bilingual", meaning basically in English and freely back-forth between Japanese. Translation work is unnecessary because of its inefficiency.
Workshop Duration: usually 2 days. (it is tailored to 1 day workshop either on site or off site all depends on the needs.)
Workshop Outline
1.Introduction
2.Guide into what is cross-cultural situation (inter-cultural communication)
3.Benefit of mastering workframe of cross-cultural management
(1) conflict management
(2) effective communication
(3) stress level control management
(4) how to avoid pitfalls
(5) value added by cross-cultural learning
4. What participants are facing now - velocity, gravity and seriousness
5. What brings participants into turmoil of cross-cultural differences.
6. Personal feature to cope with the difficulty differentiated by using PICO analysis
7. Problems moving techniques into framework perception
8. Way to elicit problems participants are dealing with now by using such a framework
9. Showing how to use and modify any frameworks - validity and flexibility
10. Cross-cultural learning procedure
11. Cross-cultural management work in progress, whatever else makes sense for you to solve the problems
12. Communication practices both in workplace and other society/family
13. 4 ways of effective communication styles - differentiaion made by cross-cultrual environment
14. Team practices
15. Variety of activities to try the practices
16. Summary and Wrap-up
Contact me for the extended description or to book the workshop in your place. → Y.Oikawa CEO
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| Dr. Joseph Shaules | Y.Oikawa in the session | Japan Intercultural Institute 2009 conference |
Our CEO Yoshimoto Oikawa was a speaker of JII annual conference on the agenda "The challenge of Japanese HR departments for Globarization" on 18th October 2009 at Shirayuri College sponsered by Japan Intercultural Institute, the founder Dr. Joseph Shaules, Rikkyo Post-univ-graduate school on Inter-cultural communications.