WORK IN PROGRESSCreate greater synergy amongst staff of different cultures
Increase the effectiveness of your multicultural teams
Minimise time-consuming misunderstandings
Communicate better with customers/clients and suppliers
Intercultural Communication, Management and Pedagogy
Interactive
conferences, workshops and seminars on a wide range of intercultural
issues with a learning by doing approach.
CONFERENCES &
WORKSHOPS (half to full day)
This type of program gives participants
some insights into the impact culture has on business interactions.
Programs range from interactive presentations to intensive workshops
where group members participate in exercises, role plays or
simulations. Content can be designed:
- to start participants thinking about their beliefs, values and behaviors as a product of their culture
- to focus on a specific cultural dimension, e.g. different concepts of time, the decision making process, a manager’s role…
- to address a specific challenge the company is facing, e.g. members of a merged team encountering real problems communicating across cultures.
SEMINARS (from 2 days to 1 week)
Content ranges from general aims (Developing Intercultural Awareness) to specific managerial issues (Teambuilding, Managing Multicultural Teams, Multicultural Human Resources…). Length depends on the company’s aims and needs.
Some examples of programs:
Seminars Conferences and Presentations
Developing Intercultural Awareness On Being Foreign
Working Together: The challenges of multicultural teams Globalisation
The United States from Coast-to-Coast Languages and cultures
Understanding the American Customer From me to you: the road to recognizing our differences
All programs are designed to meet your
company’s specific needs and objectives. Program content is defined as
appropriate to your culture and challenges.
Customer
references:
Aventis, Total-Elf-Fina, Nortel-Matra, EADS, L’Oréal,
Hilton, Guerbet, International Paper, MBDAF, GDF-Suez…
Intercultural Training programs are run by LINDA S VIGNAC
Linda is
Franco-American and has been living and working in France for 25 years.
She
began her career in Paris, at one of France’s leading corporate
training companies, for whom she has created and facilitated numerous
programs for adult professionals from a wide range of sectors such as
banking & finance, automobile, pharmaceutical, aerospace, insurance,
hotel & tourism. Over the years she became aware that culture had a
major influence on communication and quite logically turned to the
field of intercultural communication, management and pedagogy.
Today,
she is still at Langues et Entreprises in Paris as Director of Training and Programme Design. Her responsibilities include designing training
programs and mentoring of trainers representing over 30 nationalities.
She creates and facilitates workshops and seminars for the company and
as an independent consultant on intercultural communication, management,
team-building and pedagogy throughout Europe in English and French.
Linda
is also a Member of SIETAR (Society for Intercultural Education and
Training and Research) France as well as coauthor of:
“Galaxias
interculturales. Mundos para armar" (Santillana, Buenos Aires, 2003).
“De moi à toi: Chemin vers la reconnaissance de la difference” dans De
Babel à la mondialisation : apport des sciences sociales à la
didactique des langues,
Actes de Colloques ALDIDAC (Approche
Linguistique et Didactique de la Différence Culturelle), J. Aden (dir.),
2004 (co-auteur)
A cycle of 12 online classes in Intercultural
Pedagogy offered in 2007-08 by the virtual campus cem (Centro De
Estudios Multidisciplinarios), Buenos Aires.
To discuss your Intercultural Communications training needs, contact kibu Consulting or Linda S Vignac direct:
Linda@kibuConsulting.com
W. I. P. July 2010