Thriving in diversity: Leading international teams successfully
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Collaborating in international teams is a crucial everyday part of scientific work at iDiv. Working with team members with a different cultural background brings numerous benefits, but can also lead to misunderstanding and irritation.
In this interactive workshop, you will promote your intercultural leadership competence in the academic context and understand your own cultural imprint as a leader better. You will learn different approaches to deal with intercultural differences and how to lead an international team in a constructive and resource-oriented way. With the focus on intercultural communication, we will analyze typical challenges of leading international teams and develop strategies to implement an inclusive team culture.
Topics covered include:
- Changing perspectives: taking off our “cultural glasses”
- Cultural differences, challenges, hidden values and invisible routines in team dynamics
- Self-reflection and exchange about the cultural imprint on our leadership style (hierarchy, decision making, concept of time and research approaches)
- Intercultural Communication: Discovering different communication styles and pitfalls in international collaboration
- Recognize and solve misunderstandings and subtle conflicts based on cultural differences with cultural sensitivity
- Leading successfully international teams: Basics of inclusive team cultures
- feedback culture, meeting culture, dealing with conflicts
- Tools that will help to prevent misunderstandings or conflicts and work together in a respectful way
Target group: Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers with prior teaching experience, in English
Lecturer
Dorothee Kaiser is a multilingual and certified Business and Career coach who supports executives and leaders in corporate and academic contexts. Combining her long experience abroad with her academic background as a linguist, she works playfully and effectively with her clients on leadership and career challenges with a strong focus on solution and activating resources. She develops new perspectives with creative methods and uses different tools and approaches depending on the individual needs of the client. Results of her work are more clarity in the leadership role, a stronger self-confidence and more transparency in processes and structures. Besides her work as coach and facilitator, she teaches Intercultural Management at ESB Business School, Reutlingen University.
