Managing multicultural teams
Managing multicultural teams:
challenges and best practices
Learning objectives
- Understand cultural diversity and become aware of your own cultural frame of reference.
- Understand cultural differences and their impact on management practices.
- Identify situations of intercultural misunderstanding within the team and acquire the right reflexes to manage them better.
- Develop your management style to optimise relations with each member of staff and strengthen team cohesion
Multicultural teams are an invaluable asset for organisations, but also a challenge for managers.
This course enables managers to become aware of the challenges of interculturalism and its impact on their management practices. It provides an in-depth understanding of cultural diversity, its impact on management practices and strategies for improving team cohesion and effectiveness.
The course is divided into the following sections:
- Understanding cultural diversity: learning to identify and understand cultural diversity within teams, while becoming aware of one's own cultural frame of reference.
- Implications for management: exploring how cultural differences can influence management practices and team relationships.
- Managing intercultural misunderstandings: identifying situations of misunderstanding or conflict related to cultural differences and developing strategies to manage them effectively.
- Evolving management practices: adapting and adjusting management styles to improve interactions with each team member and strengthen team cohesion.
- Intercultural challenges at company level: for management committees, discussing intercultural challenges specific to the company and developing strategies to address them.
