This advanced training course is designed to provide experienced Leaders and other Professionals with the knowledge and skills required by their challenging role. This course enables your staff to critically explore the skills needed to lead at a time when the global economy is experiencing an economic downturn that is having a significant impact on all industries and all organisations.
Innovation is regarded as the most important leadership competency in any industry. This training course will enable participants to perform in a radical mindset, push boundaries for themselves and their organisation, be agile and adaptive to conditions and outcomes.
Cultural Intelligence (CI) is the capability to relate and work effectively across cultures. Culture has been one of the key competencies in fields ranging from leadership and psychology, engineering, and finance, to accounting and marketing. The higher your CI, the more likely you will experience success working in a diverse, globalized world.
The training course includes many practical activities that are educationally and professionally enriching. This training course will cover the critical competencies necessary in a modern organisation. This ten-day Masterclass will leave participants engaged, energised, and inspired.
This training course will feature:
Day Two: Communicating Across Cultures
Day Three: Cross-Cultural Negotiation
The basics of negotiation with CI
Cultural differences in negotiation
Overestimating and underestimating cultural differences in negotiation
Negotiation traps to avoid
Developing your cross-cultural negotiation skills
Day Four: Managing Expatriates and Diversity
International assignments and global career development
Culture shock and global working
International Human Resource issues
The business case for cultural diversity
Nationalisation programmes
Day Five: Developing and Maintaining your CI
Developing a global mindset
How to improve your CI
Managing in multi-national companies
National culture & strategy
Personal Action Planning
Module 2 - Creating a Culture of Innovation
Day Six: The Practice of Innovation
What is innovation and where does it come from
Becoming innovative
Ideas for innovation
The importance of the Business Model for value creation
Developing your Business Model Canvas
Day Seven: Disruptive Innovation
Introduction to Disruptive Innovation (DI)
Disruptive technology or disruptive innovation
Examples of great disruption across multiple industries
Evaluate your ability to be disruptive
Enablers and constraints for DI
Day Eight: Benchmarking for Innovation
Principles of benchmarking for innovation
Different Methods of benchmarking and how they relate to each other
How to identify potential benchmarking projects
An overview of the benchmarking process
Running a Successful Benchmarking Project
Day Nine: Critical and Creative Thinking
Understanding the power of creativity
Your brain and ideas
Communication skills for ideation
Core critical thinking skills
Argument mapping
Day Ten: Culture and Innovation
Understanding the levels of culture
Cultural barriers
What we know about culture and innovation
Creating a workplace culture that supports innovation
Personal action planning
INFORMATECH is the region’s leading provider of in-house custom-designed courses. We have been tailoring in-house solutions for our clients aimed at helping them achieve short term training wins or long term strategic requirements. In addition to being significantly cost effective, these courses are constantly in demand because they:
If you did not find the appropriate date or venue suitable for you, or you would like to join the course online, you can request a custom course from the link below.
We offer group and corporate discounts on many courses. These discounts are available for clients who want to maximize their return on investment.
We offer individual discounts on many courses for people who are self-sponsored and make their payment in full and upfront at the time of registration.
Nominations to our public courses are to be processed by the client’s HR/Training department except for self-nominations which are to be paid in advance using the “payment by self” option on the online registration form. A refund will be issued back to the client in the event of course cancellation or seat unavailability. Registration confirmation is subject to INFORMATECH's review of registration request and seat availability.
Clients are responsible for any type of tax levied in their country.
If you are interested in having a course custom-designed for your organization, please submit a request using the link below. Once we receive your duly completed request, one of our business development professionals or consultants will get in touch with you to understand your requirements with more detail and answer any relevant questions you may have. After all pertinent information has been exchanged, we will work on the custom-designed request and send you the proposal you require and work with you to identify the ideal period and place for delivering the custom-designed solution.