Workshop:
The New Global Leader
Stretching Boundaries Across Borders
As leaders move into the international arena, they enter a world of unique and novel challenges. Previous experience provides few answers to the new leadership challenges of the international arena.
As CEO of ABB, Percy Barnevik maintained that effective international leaders "respect how different countries do things, and they have the imagination to appreciate why they do things that way. But they are also incisive, they push the limits of the culture. They sort through the debris of cultural excuses and find opportunities to innovate."
This workshop focuses on a conceptual Framework and practical skills for international leadership. Participants will learn to avoid cultural pitfalls that undermine the efforts of even the most talented leaders without letting cultural differences become an excuse for underperformance.
Who Should Attend?
- Leaders working outside their country of origin
- Leaders of teams and task forces that include members of more than one culture
- Leaders of teams, departments or business units that include members or groups from other cultures
- Leaders who are preparing for future international responsibilities
Optimal group size is 12-16 participants.
Workshop Objectives
By attending this highly interactive workshop, participants will:
- know and avoid common pitfalls of interactions with individuals from other cultures
- learn the principles of transformational leadership and how to apply them in an intercultural context
- gain insight into your own personal leadership purpose, vision and values
- know the distinctions between the roles, skills and components of leadership and management and understand how these two disciplines complement and reinforce one another
- adapt your leadership approach as necessary to achieve desired results across cultural boundaries
- develop an action plan for applying newly learned principles and skills in your leadership roles back on the job
Workshop Duration
Three days.
Workshop Content
Leadership Is More Than Management
- Personal leadership achievement and qualities
- How leadership differs from management
- Learning strategies to maximize competence in other cultures
- Leadership characteristics and myths
The Foundations of Effective Leadership
- Leadership awareness
- Purpose, vision and values: Yours and those of your organization
- Leadership in the context of culture
Leading in the International Arena
- Three international leadership archetypes
- Key attributes of interculturally effective leaders
- The three levels of intercultural competence
- When and how far to adapt to other cultures
- Culture and ethics
Setting the Direction
- Challenging the status quo within cultural norms
- Testing alternatives
- Taking decisive action
- Developing a borderless team vision
Achieving Alignment
- Vision: "Why should I follow you?"
- Reiterating and reinforcing your message
- Credibility
Managing Change
- Personal and cultural responses to change
- The dynamics of transition
- Change strategies
Maintaining Energy
- Personal and team energy
- Charging your own batteries
- Leaders as energy managers
Motivating and Inspiring
- Making the work meaningful
- Autonomy and support
- Reward and recognition
- Motivating across cultures
Creating Your Leadership Legacy
- Leadership and learning
- Leaders developing other leaders
- Storytelling as an intercultural leadership tool
- Writing your story
Final Session
- Recap of key learning points
- Development of personal action plans
- Closing celebration