Intercultural Project Management

Target group

This course is ideal for project leaders, team members and managers who already have some experience with project-based work and want to deepen and professionalise their approach.

It is aimed at professionals who:

• Regularly lead or coordinate projects within their organisation
• Want to evolve towards a uniform and strategically aligned project approach
• Are looking for practical tools and methodologies such as Prince2 and PMBoK to manage their projects more efficiently
• Want to gain more control over team dynamics, decision-making and change management within projects;
• Want to align their leadership style with the maturity of their project team.

The training course is particularly valuable for organisations that strive for project excellence and want to establish a stronger link between strategy and implementation through a professional PMO.

Our approach

• During a 1-day training, we introduce the background of cultural dimensions and the impact that cultural differences can have on collaboration.
• The possibility exists to bring the training into 2 half-days, so that we can work on intermediate learning moments.
• The topics are applied as a combination of theory and exercises.
• The participants bring in real-life examples, on which further work is done. In particular, we focus on the cultures the participants themselves come into contact with. 
• The learning experience is supported and enhanced by the use of an online learning platform.
• A training certificate can be provided.

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What can you expect?

• Understanding the impact of cultural differences in critical work situations.
• A practically applicable and solution-oriented intercultural frame of reference in international cooperation.
• Awareness of the importance of perception and own assumptions around particular cultures.

Programme

• Mapping concrete, difficult work situations in an intercultural context (do's and don'ts)
• What is culture and how can cultural differences be expressed?
  • Advantages and disadvantages of multicultural cooperation
  • Learning about the cultural dimensions (Hofstede and Hall)
  • Applying the cultural differences to the concrete work situation of the participants - differences in leadership, decision-making, problem solving, planning, information exchange, ...
• Creating a broader frame of reference for future application, including to other country cultures.
• Building one's own intercultural competence - practical advice.