Seminar (Präsenz)

Leading Intercultural Teams

Perform and communicate confidently in culturally diverse working environments

Nutzen

With this highly practice-oriented training, you will expand your intercultural competence and promote a respectful and inclusive working environment. You will discover how even minor changes in your communication can help to avoid misunderstandings and conflicts between different cultures and can improve mutual understanding. Participants have the opportunity to reflect on their own intercultural challenges and practical cases and to develop concrete solutions together. You will become aware of your own cultural imprints and its effects as well as your personal communication preferences. So, as a result, in future, you will learn to recognize and defuse areas of tension between cultures in good time.

Zielgruppe

The open training "Leading Intercultural Teams" is aimed at managers, team leaders, HR professionals, project managers and all those who work in intercultural environments and who want to strengthen their skills in dealing with cultural diversity.

Veranstaltungsinhalt im Überblick

In an increasingly globalized world, teams are often culturally diverse. Trends such as migration, digitization and new markets increasingly confront company managers with the task of taking intercultural aspects into account in their management work.

Main content

• Reflective handling of one's own values, contradictions and cultural expectations
• Cultural dimensions according to Hofstede and other helpful concepts
• Recognizing cultural diversity in the team as an opportunity and competitive advantage
• Misunderstandings and potential for conflict
• Effective team leadership through culturally sensitive communication

Veranstalter

IHK Akademie München und Oberbayern gGmbH

Seminar (Präsenz) Leading Intercultural Teams

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Datum

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Verfügbarkeit

Datum23.09.2025OrtIngolstadtfreie PlätzePlätze frei

Gesamtsumme

580,00 €

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Veranstaltungsinhalt im Detail

This seminar offers managers the opportunity to reflect intensively on themselves and on their mindset and to expand their intercultural competence by adapting communication, speech patterns and feedback to the situation.

The topics of the seminar at a glance:

Own cultural imprint
• Value systems
• Between consistency and contradiction
• Mindset: How do I really think about others?
• Behavior: Dealing with Otherness

Cultural differences
• Cultural Dimensions according to Geert Hofstede
• Recognizing, understanding and constructively using differences
• Exchange of experiences on differences undergone and recommendations for
dealing with other cultures

Cultural diversity in the team
• Contemporary understanding of leadership
• Situational leadership instead of "one style fits all"
• Effective intercultural leadership and communication

Misunderstandings and potential for conflict
• Open approach to different needs
• Appreciation and humor instead of tabooing and pigeonholing
• Feedback and team development

Effective team leadership through culturally sensitive communication
• Rules of the game and agreements for better cooperation
• Motivation through openness and willingness to change on the part of everyone
• Psychological Safety and Nonviolent Communication

Trainer/-in

Dr. Chris Schäfer

Dr. Chris Schäfer ist promovierter Chemiker und war selbst 8 Jahre Führungskraft im Vertrieb in der globalen Chemie- und Pharmaindustrie. Nach einem Studienaufenthalt an der Kellogg University und einem MBA in General Management absolvierte er Ausbildungen zum Business Trainer und Systemischen Coach und unterstützt seit 2006 als selbständiger Management-Trainer regelmäßig Unternehmen und deren Mitarbeiter in Europa, Asien, Australien und Amerika bei ihren interkulturellen Herausforderungen, inzwischen in über 30 Ländern rund um den Globus. Er ist u.a. akkreditierter InsightsDiscovery®-Trainer und Dozent an der Mannheim Business School.

Dr. Chris Schäfer holds a PhD in chemistry and worked as a sales manager in the global chemical and pharmaceutical industry for 8 years. After a study trip to Kellogg University and an MBA in General Management, he was qualified as a business trainer and systemic coach. Since 2006 he has regularly supported companies and their employees in Europe, Asia, Australia and America in their intercultural challenges as an independent management trainer, now in over 30 countries around the globe. Among other things, he is an accredited InsightsDiscovery® trainer and lecturer at Mannheim Business School.

Methoden

1. Interactive development of the workshop content through a mix of methods consisting of impulses from the trainer, group and individual work, collegial case consultation and numerous exercises

2. Practical simulations on case studies of the participants; Use of role-plays with intense feedback (on individual strengths and areas for development), Guidance on practical transfer to the participants’ working environment and measures to ensure the sustainability of changes