Manage Cross Functional & Culturally Diverse Teams

Course details

Workplace persity is highly prevalent in today’s globalised landscape. The ability to leverage on persity helps drive positive synergy and creative outcomes.

This course focuses on helping you build a system that taps into the power of persity. In addition, it equips you with the skills to bring team alignment to achieve common goals.

Target Audience:

This course is suitable for executives or managers, especially those who are responsible for the operation and performance of a team. It is also useful for people in small businesses or the self-employed.

Course Objectives:

At the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Assess persity & its impact on organisation
• Align perse teams to achieve common goals
• Maximise team effectiveness & synergy
• Build communication system to foster persity

Course Outline:

Beauty of persity

• Workplace & common cultural persity issues
• Characteristics of some cultures
• Analyse the persity in your work environment 

Aligning to persity

• Strategies to handle cultural persity  
• Alignment of work team towards common goals (Case Study)

Leverage on the Differences

• Differences among the background of members in a perse work team
• Tuckman’s 4 stages & team adjustments
• From conflict to synergy
• Establish positive work culture

Build Communication System to Foster persity

• Moderate perse perspectives & opinions
• Impact of cultural taboos on perse team
• Providing constructive feedback

Methodology: Mini lectures, sharing, group discussions, case studies & written assessments etc.

Teacher & Student Ratio: 1:25 (maximum capacity)