The Mindful International Manager: What You Need to Work Effectively across Cultures
With the help of an amusing training film and insights from a wide range of research as well as Mr. Franklin's training and consultancy experience, this talk will illustrate the competencies and qualities mindful international managers ideally require to handle the complexity of the intercultural situation - and to leverage its diversity.
Participants will have the opportunity to
- become familiar with the push and pull competencies research has shown are crucial for working effectively across cultures
- reflect on their own international management competencies
- gain an understanding of the concept of mindfulness as a principle of working effectively across cultures
- discuss their won experience of effective and appropriate approaches to working across cultures.
The video-supported session will consist of a mixture of presentation and discussion; it will be both amusing and serious.
Peter Franklin is a professor at Hochschule Konstanz University of Applied Sciences, where his teaching and research activities concern culture and communication in international management. He teaches on the BA in Asian Studies and Management and the MA in International Management - Asia and also on MBA programmes in Konstanz, China, Switzerland and the UK.
He is co-author of the management guide The Mindful International Manager. How to Work Effectively Across Cultures and of Intercultural Interaction. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Intercultural Communication.
In addition to his university work, since 1989 Peter Franklin has advised, trained and addressed dozens of corporate and institutional clients and since 2005 has also coached scores of international managers in the area of intercultural co-operation, management and leadership. His focus in recent years has been on post-merger integration, U.K.-German cooperation, team-bulding and developing intercultural leadership and management competence.
Peter Franklin is a co-founder member of the KIeM Konstanz Institute for Intercultural Management, Values and Communication and is director of dialogin The Delta Intercultural Academy, an Internet-based knowledge community devoted to culture and communication in international business.