International Project Management
The success of your international projects depends many times on the culture this project is based in. Use your international projects as a opportunity: to grow together and to become one so that your strategic investment is worthwhile.
Unfortunately often the opposite is the case: International projects become more and more difficult. The acceptance of each other gets less and less. Misunderstandings block a efficient work process. The project goals barely get realized. And after the project the relationship between the partners ends often times. Long term visions that were created together are then no longer relevant. The reason simply is: Insufficient management of cultural differences.
Because every successful project together means building a bridge. Build those bridges! Improve your international Project Management. Our Training for international Project Management supports you with this issue.
In the first step we raise the participant’s acceptance of the topic culture in the field of international Project Management. For that we use two instruments. First, the participants act in role plays, That gives them access to a different perception. Others see the same different.
We work with Case studies from the actual every day life of international Management. The cultural motivated differences of problem solving and behavior become that way very obvious to the participants. The acceptance of the –many times unknown- factor culture within international relations improves.
In the second step we provide an explanation. We ask –typically German- WHY??. Why are other cultures different? How does this "being different" actually affect our work? Are colleges in other cultures also that much interested in asking why? The participants receive here much information about other cultural stiles.
The third step is strongly related to practical intercultural Project Management. Why ask questions concering:
- Hierarchy and Leadership
- intercultural Interaction
- Planning – Behavior
- Behavior in planning meetings
- Building relationships using Small Talk
- the importance of content and relationship aspects
- social norms in team interactions
- Synergy
From a didactical point of view we constantly change our methods. With short presentations we introduce the most important information. In the following discussion the participants have the opportunity to integrate and reflect own experiences and topics in the course of the training. The advantage is that the participant is always active.
Depending on your preferences we offer a Co-trainer with a different cultural background. The taught country specific information seems so more authentic. In addition to that allows a Co-Trainer with a different cultural background in role plays the chance to improve the Training efficiency even more. Use this opportunity and our unique trainer network.
During the international project management training we develop the understanding of your employees of the importance of the cultural factor for their own intercultural and international work. The participants create first optimizing ideas for projects they are working on in the moment. They receive new knowledge and impulses. They return more motivated to their daily work. They are equipped with a little more security, with a little more cultural knowledge and a little more ideas about the arrangement of the future course of the project.
And this little more is making the difference when it comes to the success of your international projects. Because you know that the success of your international projects depends many times on the culture this project is based in.
