A Series - Skills for Practitioners, 'Train the Trainer' Workshops

Overview 2005
Workshop A1
Intercultural Career Planning
Workshop A2
Basic Intercultural Training Skills
Workshop A3
Developing Multicultural Teams
Workshop A4
International Leadership
Saturday
25th June

1 day
Monday & Tuesday
27th & 28th June
2 days
Wed & Thursday
29th & 30th June
2 days
Friday & Saturday
1st & 2nd July
2 days
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Schedule: Wednesday & Thursday, 29th & 30th June 2005 - 2 days
Workshop facilitators: Caroline Beery & Maria Jicheva
Intended for: This workshop is aimed at helping trainers to make more effective interventions when supporting professionals who are leading or participating in multi-cultural teams
It will cover key issues such as:
Programme outline: Review the special challenges of working in multicultural teams
  Explore key tools for managing diversity in multicultural teams
Model, practice and review a range of learning activities for supporting multicultural teams at key stages in their life cycle
Participants will work with a model for multicultural team development which helps understand their dynamics and tools and techniques for effective intervention
Understanding the differences among team members
(tools and techniques for mapping member profiles)
Communicating across differences (how to speak the other person's language and find common ground) and managing the differences and misunderstandings.
The workshop will offer exercises and techniques for innovative problem solving and creating value from the differences.

Background:  
CAROLINE BEERY is co-founder of Coghill & Beery International, an intercultural management consulting firm that provides training, consulting and executive coaching for global companies. Her current work focuses on coaching executives and international project teams in global organisations, alongside an extensive practice in international leadership development. Much of her own passion lies in individual and personal development and she remains much in demand as a personal coach by senior executives. Though consulting and training are her main focus, she continues to teach university courses on managing in a multicultural environment and regularly presents workshops at international conferences recently in the US, UK, Germany, France and Norway. With her Myers Briggs training and a background in 360-degree survey-feedback, she has been able to roll this out as an effective tool for use in a cross cultural setting and has recently launched the new 'Argonaut' tool.
MARIA JICHEVA is a director at Coghill and Beery International, an intercultural management consultancy based in London. Maria combines her international business and teaching background with MBTI training to coach individuals and teams in developing intercultural leadership competencies. Alongside her work in developing multi-cultural teams, she continues teaching university courses in intercultural management. Over the last 2 years she designed and delivered an international leadership development programme for one of the largest management consultancies in the world. Last year she became President of the Board of the Society for Intercultural Education, Training & Research (SIETAR) Europa. She received MA and BA degrees from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, her MBA from The American International University in London and her Diploma in Inter-Cultural Management from the University of Cambridge.