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Why Choose this Training Course?
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:
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The techniques and challenges of innovation
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Business model innovation & value creation
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What disruptive innovation means to you and your organisation
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Practical tools for decision making & solving problems
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Creative and critical thinking skills for Leadership
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An understanding of all the major areas of culture
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How to improve your CI
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Understanding how to improve your cross-cultural communication
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Best-practice in expatriate and diversity management
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Cross-Cultural Negotiation
Module 1 - The Complete Course in Cultural Intelligence (CI)
Day One: The Psychology and Meaning of Culture
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Where culture comes from and why it matters
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Understanding globalisation
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Your own cultural map
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The seven levels of culture (national, workplace, gender, age, regional, religious, occupation)
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The Hofstede five cultural value dimensions
Day Two: Communicating Across Cultures
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Why communication differences and barriers occur
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How to remove barriers to communication
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Stereotypes and stereotyping explored
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Non-verbal communication (body-language) and culture
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Workplace culture and the impact on organisational communication
Day Three: Cross-Cultural Negotiation
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The basics of negotiation with CI
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Cultural differences in negotiation
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Overestimating and underestimating cultural differences in negotiation
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Negotiation traps to avoid
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Developing your cross-cultural negotiation skills
Day Four: Managing Expatriates and Diversity
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International assignments and global career development
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Culture shock and global working
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International Human Resource issues
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The business case for cultural diversity
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Nationalisation programmes
Day Five: Developing and Maintaining your CI
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Developing a global mindset
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How to improve your CI
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Managing in multi-national companies
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National culture & strategy
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Personal Action Planning
Module 2 - Creating a Culture of Innovation
Day Six: The Practice of Innovation
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What is innovation and where does it come from
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Becoming innovative
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Ideas for innovation
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The importance of the Business Model for value creation
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Developing your Business Model Canvas
Day Seven: Disruptive Innovation
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Introduction to Disruptive Innovation (DI)
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Disruptive technology or disruptive innovation
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Examples of great disruption across multiple industries
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Evaluate your ability to be disruptive
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Enablers and constraints for DI
Day Eight: Benchmarking for Innovation
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Principles of benchmarking for innovation
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Different Methods of benchmarking and how they relate to each other
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How to identify potential benchmarking projects
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An overview of the benchmarking process
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Running a Successful Benchmarking Project
Day Nine: Critical and Creative Thinking
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Understanding the power of creativity
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Your brain and ideas
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Communication skills for ideation
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Core critical thinking skills
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Argument mapping
Day Ten: Culture and Innovation
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Understanding the levels of culture
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Cultural barriers
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What we know about culture and innovation
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Creating a workplace culture that supports innovation
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Personal action planning
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