Leading from the Inside Out – Cross Cultural Leadership

Program Overview

"Leading from the Inside Out" is intended for business leaders who manage multi-cultural teams and/or are relocating to Latin America from other regions, or within Latin America to assume new leadership roles. In this highly interactive workshop, participants will develop their intercultural competence through experiential activities and the CultureActive self-assessment tool. Attendees will also gain a greater self-awareness of their own cultural identities and learn how to apply cultural frameworks of various communication styles and behaviors to successfully navigate business scenarios throughout commercial hubs in Latin America. Each participant will leave the course with a behaviorally based action plan to put the class concepts to work back in the office.

Saltar Consulting will be our bilingual partner (English/Spanish) in delivering the program, with Natalie d’Aubermont Thompson leading the sessions.

Day 1

• Leadership Styles Inventory
  
• Discussion of various styles, and examples to visually demonstrate (via video) the associated behaviors and language. 
  
• Learn Your “Why?”
  
• Simon Sinek Ted Talk on “How Leaders Inspire Action”, breakout on “What/Why/How”
  
• Culture Context Assessment
  
• Using Iceberg Model, critically assess personal and often invisible cultural beliefs, assumptions, identities and privileges in home and host cultures
• Review of results of “CultureActive” Self-Assessment and Culture Map
• Behavioral Plan – Introduction and examples
  
• Dinner – Intercultural Team Building Dinner
  

Day 2

• Cross-Cultural Challenges Brainstorm – breakout on current/expected events
  
• New Leader Assimilation Discussion – on boarding, transition planning with incumbent, team and peer relationship planning and actions, communications and performance plans,  key client profile and relationships, and transition planning with incumbent
  
• New Job, New Country, New World – focus on relocation and stresses for partners and/or family.  Identification of potential resources and support mechanisms and other logistics
  
• Behavior Plan Completion & Debrief
  

Who Should Attend

• Business leaders who manage intercultural teams.
  
• Managers relocating to Latin America from other regions.
  
• Managers relocating within Latin America to assume a new leadership roles.
  

Learning Topics

• Gain an understanding of different Latin American communication styles and behaviors
  
• Complete a personal cultural assessment via the CultureActive tool and a comparison to the new country (or countries)
  
• Complete a Behavior Tracking & Action Plan  to support new leader assimilation in the new team and/or country
  
• Earn a Certificate of Cross-Cultural Leadership, contingent upon completing pre-reading assignments, attending workshop and completing a follow-up session three months post conference