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Developing Cultural Intelligence - Become a high performer across all cultures
Today, intercultural interactions are a norm, no longer an exception. We are all dealing with various challenges or demands of working within intercultural contexts. When unequipped or unprepared, one can become stressed and fatigued in the day-to-day interactions of a multicultural environment. This can have a dire impact on your work and your relationships.
CQ (Cultural Intelligence), backed by cutting edge academic research across 98 countries and over 2 decades, are the skills and capabilities for individuals to deal with intercultural challenges. According to the latest findings, a high CQ individual could be crucial in a wide range of careers, from bankers to soldiers and scientists to teachers - anyone, in fact, who regularly interacts with people from different backgrounds.
With high CQ, you will be able to adjust to various cultural situations, become effective in your job performance and make an impact in your team and your organisation.
CQ (Cultural Intelligence), backed by cutting edge academic research across 98 countries and over 2 decades, are the skills and capabilities for individuals to deal with intercultural challenges. According to the latest findings, a high CQ individual could be crucial in a wide range of careers, from bankers to soldiers and scientists to teachers - anyone, in fact, who regularly interacts with people from different backgrounds.
With high CQ, you will be able to adjust to various cultural situations, become effective in your job performance and make an impact in your team and your organisation.
Objective
- Increased self-awareness of the effects of culture upon one’s role
- Gain insight in the values that underpins any culture and how to use them to your advantage
- Navigate cultural differences, challenges and complexities
- Develop your cultural intelligence for any cultural situation
- Harness the cultural intelligence framework in preparing and strategising for your cultural challenge
Outline
- Learn from an experienced cultural consultant
- Recognise how culture influences human behaviour.
- Discover how cultures are formed, what it takes to shape and influence them
- Analyse a group or team’s culture
- Identify opportunities and challenges in interacting with another culture
- Harness he cultural intelligence framework to plan and strategise your cultural interactions
- Become effective in adapting and performing in diverse cultural situations
Outcomes
- How to better understand the culture of others
- Be an adaptable individual in a culturally-diverse environments
- Communicate more effectively with people from diverse backgrounds
- Become an impactful cultural ambassador
Who should attend
- Leaders - Become aware of cultural nuances of your followers and influence them towards your vision.
- Managers - Connect with your culturally-diverse team members to better develop their strengths and build a innovative and high performing team.
- Business Development and Marketers - See the world from your client’s point of view and build better marketing or business development strategies to engage them
- Trainers or Facilitators - Better engage your audience by understanding their cultural worldview
- Expatriates - Gain confidence in adapting, engaging and performing in a new environment.
- Individuals who have a passion for personal development, relating to people from different cultures and supporting harmony and collaboration across different cultural groups.
Methodology
Presentations, facilitation, role-plays, games and discussions will give participants the opportunity to assimilate knowledge, change mind-set and apply skills. Participants will find this workshop informative, energetic, interactive and practical.
Profile of Ling Ling Tai
For more than a decade, Ling Ling has been in corporate training, learning and development for Fortune 500 companies in the technology and travel industry. She has impacted audiences across 21 different countries in America, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific.
She had lived in 6 different countries and had first-hand experience of intercultural challenges and opportunities, both in life and work. She is known for her ability to reach out, connect and engage with audiences of varying cultures.
In 2009, she had the privilege to speak at the Women’s Conference of the British Psychology Society in Windsor, United Kingdom. With an MSc in Psychology from the UK, she is a member for the British Psychology Society (BPS).
She had also obtained a Training Professional Certificate from the University of Southern Mississippi, USA and a professional member of the Association of Talent Development (ATD). In 2017, obtained an Advanced Professional Certificate with the Cultural Intelligence Centre, in Dubai. UAE.
Currently, she is on a mission to support individuals and organisations to prepare, perform and succeed in this globalised world.
