MANAGE DUNYA
Managing People Overseas
Companies have been sending out their high potentials and experienced managers to manage affiliated companies across the globe. Moreover, recent years have seen explosive growth in the outsourcing of services to locations as diverse as India, the Philippines, South Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Using your own culturally biased leadership style abroad may not lead to the expected results. This course is about how to effectively lead/coach people with another cultural background abroad.
- Benefits
This program provides you with:- a greater understanding of the challenges facing global human resources and home country managers
- the knowledge you need to effectively manage human capital abroad.
- Who should attend?
Anyone who:- Wants to select, hire or recruit the best possible staff available on a global scale
- Works regularly with overseas employees and expatriate/impatriate staff
- Is a human resources professional responsible for managing expatriate staff
- Manages people on the ground overseas
- Program Content
- The impact of culture on international assignments and assignees
- Cultural drivers affecting work and communication styles in overseas locations
- Cultural drivers for motivating staff
- Linguistic and cultural challenges facing overseas staff
- Perceptions and expectations of management styles in overseas locations
- The opportunity to enhance cultural awareness and competences
- Hands-on strategies to minimize intercultural misunderstanding and encourage positive working relationships
- Coping with challenges of virtual communication (example: skills in conference calling)
- Change management for staff at home
- Methodology
- We take a case by case approach to each of our clients and therefore only deliver tailor made courses concentrating on the concerned country/region.
- Each course is delivered by an expert with a solid knowledge of, and long-term experience in leadership, cross cultural processes and the concerned country/region.