Managing International Projects
– Culturally and from a distance
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Improve your ability to manage cultural differences and learn how to optimize communication distance management |
This course provides you with a tool-kit for understanding and handling cultural differences and for managing people from a distance. It will prepare you to work more effectively in multicultural teams and multi-site international projects.
Participants
Project managers or experienced project participants involved in international projects on a daily or regular basis. The course is not directed at specific types of projects, but focuses on the multinational and virtual aspects of project management.
Participants will not typically be stationed abroad full-time.
Purpose
With organisations moving towards global multi-site projects, multicultural teams are becoming a way of life. Members of multicultural teams differ in how they perceive information and have different norms guiding team interaction. Insufficient knowledge of team members’ cultural norms and values can make a project leader’s job frustrating and often result in delays and even project failure. There are also special challenges associated with managing from a distance
This course aims to provide the participants with a tool-kit for understanding and tackling cultural differences and will prepare them to work more effectively in multicultural teams and multi-site international projects.
You will learn how to
- Use your own cultural norms and values as the basis for understanding cultural differences
- Work with issues associated with cultural differences in a multicultural project team
- Prepare a checklist for handling cultural preferences with relation to project management in different country clusters
- Create communication networks to provide a virtual presence
- Build trust
- Promote self-management
- Lead people who do not report to you
Content
The seminar will use the participants’ own cultural norms and values as basis for understanding cultural differences. The 5-D Model will be explained and illustrated through real-life examples. We will work with issues associated with cultural differences in a multicultural project team and prepare a checklist for handling cultural preferences with relation to project management in different country clusters. Participants will also be required to share and analyse their own “cultural” experiences.
- Personal Cultural Profile of the individual participants
- Introduction to the 5-D tool kit for understanding cultural differences
- Cultural differences in selected countries
- “How to benefit from your own experiences!”
- “Mental Images”- a tool kit that clusters cultural preferences of project team members with relation to management issues such as communication, conflict, coordination, control, decision making, motivation, teamwork etc.
The seminar will also consider
- Understanding distance management
- Building trust from a distance
- Leading people who do not report to you
- Communication planning
- Distance coaching
Method
Interactive presentation, individual experience sharing, group work, reflection, work in smaller groups both face-to-face. Both lecturers have years of experience gained from working in international environments covering almost all continents, and will draw on their knowledge in their presentations.
The course will be run in English.
Lecturers
- Dr. Vijay P. Jain, Managing Consultant, TDT International ApS.
- Hans Arnbjerg, Founder and Owner, ProjectGovernance ApS.
The price includes:
Two trainers
Two education days
One overnight stay
A log-book for your personal notes
Meals and refreshments during the course
Course materials including hand outs and articles
A profile of your own culture norms and values
Contact Mannaz
For personal advice or enrolment, please contact Kompetencerådgiver Anette Bach on telephone 4517 6198 or send an email.
Available dates
Price: kr. 13.300 excl. VAT DKK, incl. accommodation
Available spots- Managing International Projects
21. - 22. maj 2012, Kursussted - Sjælland.
First day starts at 09:30, last day ends at 16:00.
