Leading Diverse Teams

• Understand diversity and create a personal commitment to it
• understand some of the costs and barriers so you can create ways past them
• create an inclusive and openly communicating culture in your group
• demonstrate openness to difference and adaptability with intercultural and mixed teams
• understand what’s not perfect in the current situation and develop the courage to change
• develop accountability as a strong value for yourself and the people you lead
• develop feedback skills (giving and receiving) in order to create an inclusive culture where people take responsibility for themselves and others
• develop trust and empower your team so they bring their best to their work

This course is designed for anyone who is in a leadership role and works with difference, be it culture, roles, generations, personalities and so on. The differences could be in your team or with suppliers, subsidiaries or distributors.

• The range of diversity and ensuring there really is diversity of thought
• Strategies to overcome the barriers to unleash the creativity
• Learning how to deal with ambiguity at the same time as creating clarity for others
• Developing cultural intelligence – the journey to having a choice of leadership styles
• Understanding yourself as a communicator and developing adaptability
• Being a role model to give others the courage to be honest and to improve. Demonstrating accountability
• Developing a feedback culture. Recognising the importance of process feedback
• Empowering step by step – allotting tasks, monitoring (without controlling), making it individual

After the course you will be able to better understand yourself and others and know how to use the differences well. You will have the skills and tools to enable your team to be greater than the sum of its parts.