Working in a Global World 1: What Adjustments Does it Require?

Do you know which soft skill 69% of hiring managers say is the most important they screen for? Do you know how that is relevant to global working? Attend this workshop to find out.

Whether you are working in the country of your upbringing, or elsewhere in the world, we operate in a global marketplace. Even if you are living and working in your own country many of your colleagues may hail from other cultures or be based on another continent. How does this mash of cultures, languages, and time zones affect your performance?  

This interactive session is composed of three parts:

1. Raising your awareness of any unexamined assumptions you may hold for yourself or others about cultural adaptation;
2. Examining careers know-how in a global context;
3. Creating an action plan for how to become more culturally fluent.  Bicultural skills are about more than language (although that is a necessary start)!

Don't attend if you want instant answers.

Do attend if you want to start learning how to approach one of the most urgent problems of our times.  How do we work respectfully and effectively with people whose values and beliefs are different from our own?

The second workshop in the Working in a Global World series, Working in a Global World 2: How to Navigate a Multidimensional World, will run in February/March in Term 2.  It is necessary to first attend one of the What Adjustments Does It Require? sessions (one more will be offered on Wednesday 17th January 16.00-18.00).

In How to Navigate a Multidimensional World, we will explore beliefs, values, and identity more deeply.  I will introduce you to some cross cultural models that can help you manage, and even accelerate, the often uncomfortable process of learning how to live and work in another culture.