Leading Globally
Are you struggling to manage your global teams across cultures? Looking for creative ways to bring them together AND build their skills? Perhaps you have recently gone through a merger or acquisition and need to empower your team to work across cultures? Or are you delivering new products and services for frontier markets and need to get your people to think ‘out of the box’ about new products and services?
Are you interested in new ways to think about what it means to be ‘global’? To understand at once the impact of being more international in thinking, but also bringing the ‘bigger picture’ home to the local environment too? Feeling polarised by the twin forces of nationalism and a push for diversity and inclusion, but unsure how to navigate those two opposing forces?
Globalisation has become a bad word in recent years, but the reality is that most organisations continue to work across the world with different cultures and it is crucial to be able to navigate different work styles and collaborate with each other effectively.
Furthermore, ‘culture’ is a word that can be applied to different ways of thinking and doing, even on our own doorsteps. With ample evidence that more diverse teams equalling more productivity and profitability, we need to understand that culture is not just working with different cultures and countries, but also understanding diversity within our own borders too.
Critically, to be a ‘global’ thinker is also to mean someone who is capable of both seeing the bigger picture, joining the dots between different ideas, constituencies and stakeholders, but also being able to confidently navigate both big picture and grassroots thinking in a more holistic way.
Whether that means understanding the impact your products and services can have across different markets, being hyper aware of the geopolitical issues at stake, or being sensitive to the the context in which you are working, ensuring you and your teams are able to lead across borders is crucial in today’s world.
So what does it mean to be global in today’s world?
At The Centre for the Arts and Global Leadership, we have a different way of thinking about what it means to be ‘global’ in today’s age.
In the French language, the word ‘globale’ refers not just to a way of thinking internationally or ‘of the world’, but, rather, with a sense or understanding of the totality of an experience or an idea. It is to take into account a more complete view of the subject matter in hand, to see the different elements from multiple perspectives and with a view to taking into account context and a sense of wholeness.
We believe that leadership is at its best when it does all of this, acting from a sense of integrity with regards to our responsibilities as leaders and to those we lead, and our mark upon the world. To be a ‘globale’ leader is to be someone who not only understands the world and their place in it, but to act in such a way that they take into account the whole picture when making leadership decisions.
This requires a deeper understanding of our roles and responsibilities and to understand our connection with others, our communities and our planet, and to make our decisions with a full – global – understanding of the influences and impacts of those decisions. It is to act with integrity, a sense of wholeness and a truly ‘global’ view.
Our founder, Caroline Watson, is the very definition of what it means to be a global thinker and doer. Born in Hong Kong of British parents, Caroline has lived and worked in China, Europe, the Middle East and North America and has been recognised for her pioneering work by the Young Global Leader’s community of the World Economic Forum. She speaks multiple languages and brings to her work a nuanced understanding of how to work with different people and cultures and the importance of an empathetic understanding of others in order to empower and foster global collaborations at a large scale.
In this 12 month programme, you and your teams will engage in interactive and participatory workshops that enable you to ‘get under the skin’ of some of the most important global players and their thinking. Through character and storytelling, role play and empathy exercises, you will come away with a more profound understanding of what it means to work with people very different to you, and with a greater respect and compassion for the way our world works today.
You will develop the skills to not only work internationally and with people from diverse backgrounds, but you will also stretch your creative capacities, broadening your horizons about the world and your place in it, and bring new and valuable insights to your company for product development, stakeholder engagement and new market possibilities.
Topics will include:
Leading with Empathy - how a refined understanding of another culture can empower your leadership
Geopolitics today and it’s impact on business
‘Glocal’ - local to global and back again. How to lead in both local and global contexts with smoothness and efficiency
Communication styles in different cultures
New paradigms in thinking about ‘the other’
Leading in a multi-polar world
Products and services for new markets
Opportunities in the Global South
Partnerships of possibility
In common with all of our programmes, we use creative and participatory approaches to training and leadership development, such as the development of character and story that can be key assets in understanding your stakeholders and improving your communications; using the tools of acting to improve your presentation skills; and role play to develop greater empathy for the viewpoints of others, and ‘Forum’ Theatre to ‘rehearse for real life’ the individual behaviour change and larger-scale organisational changes needed to bring about visionary thinking as we lead across the world
Programme Description
A leadership development programme for those working across borders, both literally and metaphorically, for whom diverse thinking and doing is a hallmark of their work and the aspirations and values of the company they work for. It is a programme for all those who want to expand their understanding of what it means to be global today and to be adept and nimble at navigating both local and global opportunities in the competitive landscape of today’s world.
Includes
- 12 sessions to include work on the following topics:
Leading with Empathy - how a refined understanding of another culture can empower your leadershipGeopolitics today and it’s impact on business
‘Glocal’ - local to global and back again. How to lead in both local and global contexts with smoothness and efficiency
Communication styles in different cultures
New paradigms in thinking about ‘the other’
Leading in a multi-polar world
Products and services for new markets
Opportunities in the Global South
Partnerships of possibility
- Opportunity to also integrate topics from our Mosaic modules*
- Monthly small group coaching sessions that drive the core themes from the masterclass into direct implementation in your organisation
- Access to online learning programmes for 1 year
- Pre- and post-programme design and support for implementation
- Additional video content
- Membership to our exclusive network of ‘higher order’ leaders who have also been through the programme
Leading Globally
Leadership with a larger view
Key Outcomes
The skills developed on this programme will enable leaders to transition into a new world of what it means to think globally, and to develop the skills to be a global player in a fraught geopolitical environment. Your teams will come away with an enhanced understanding of how to navigate the world of today, develop the confidence and creativity to take advantage of new opportunities, and to be an expert in leading multiple stakeholders across borders.
Time Commitment
36 hrs facilitator led learning
+ 30 hrs e-learning
+ Small group coaching
Participant Profile
Emerging leaders
Type of Delivery / Location
Hybrid online & offline, with quarterly in-person meetings
Group Size
20-100
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