Intercultural Project Management

Managing projects in a global and multicultural context

Globalizations require new competencies in managing project teams across cultures. People who have been involved in major projects, know it takes time and effort to achieve project results. Even in an environment where everyone has the same cultural background  and shares similar values about labor relations, decision-making, time-use, ...

When implementing a project with people from different cultures and value systems, the complexity of working together as a team and the time required to realize results increases exponentially. Intercultural Project Management (IPM) training and consultancy lowers the risk contrasting value-related factors pose to labor relations, planning and hierarchy.

Program

In an  interactive 1-day workshop we offer a practical roadmap to bridge cultural differences and optimize the effectiveness of intercultural project management. By course-end the participants will:

• Have incorporated a framework allowing them to acknowledge and leverage cultural diiferences
• Recognize values in the own culture (cultural passport) that can impact the IPM process (e.g. stakeholder analysis, milestone planning, social contract, risk analysis, ...)
• Build awareness of communication issues that can undermine intercultural projects
• Gain insight with regard to specific target cultures

Target group

• International project managers (ICT, Operations, R&D, ...) who want to increase the effectiveness of their project team(s)
• HR managers who want to broaden the corporate training curriculum in view of globalization

Trainers

Lutgart Dusar (Living Stone Center) and Jean-Paul Nauwelaers (Stanwick)

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