Course 7: Global Mindset: Working successfully in intercultural, diverse Teams

TitelZeitOrtDozent
Welcome & Networking, Good Scientific Practice & Research Integrity13.05.2024 10:00 - 18:00 (Mo)TUM Graduate School
Course 7: Global Mindset: Working successfully in intercultural, diverse Teams14.05.2024 09:00 - 17:00 (Di)Michelle Eberhard
Course 7: Global Mindset: Working successfully in intercultural, diverse Teams15.05.2024 09:00 - 16:00 (Mi)Michelle Eberhard
Keywords: 
Intercultural Team Work, Unconscious Biases, Communication and Conflict Management, Collaboration-Tools, Collaboration-Theory, Culture-Dimensions
Beschreibung Kursinhalt: 

Cross-cultural collaboration in international and heterogenous teams has become a crucial everyday part of scientific working environments. Understanding the keys of successful collaboration is important for each academic career path. The aim of this workshop is to prepare participants for effective teamwork from an intercultural and diverse perspective in academia.

Whether you work “abroad” or at “home”, whether “international” or “local” - get fit for working in international teams, to create more effective and rewarding collaborations and achieve better results.

Lernziele: 
  • Engage individually with your own cultural backgrounds and their impact on intercultural collaboration (culture is not nation)
  • Develop strategies for self-experienced difficult situations in international teams
  • Unconscious bias & perception in an intercultural context: How do we make ourselves aware of patterns of perception and interpretation?
  • Cultural dimensions: How can cultures be considered systematically, independent of national cultures? How can this be used for orientation in intercultural situations?
  • Conflict management & communication: How can we recognize misunderstandings and deal with them? What strategies are there for constructive conflict resolution?
  • Have the basics to feel more secure when intercultural situations occur
  • Develop strategies for self-experienced difficult situations in international teams
Lehrmethoden: 

Scientific input, science-based models, discussions, group work, working on case studies, self-reflection, short lectures and numerous exercises with a strong focus on the relevance for your professional and daily life.

Kategorie: 
Auftaktseminar
Veranstalter: 
Graduate School Geschäftsstelle
Verantwortung für Veranstaltung: 
Hauptverantwortung
Durchführung/Format: 
In Präsenz
Sprache: 
EN
Maximale Teilnehmendenzahl: 
10
Umfang in Stunden: 
14
Kosten: 
None
Trainer: 
Michelle Eberhard

Michelle Eberhard, lives in Munich and grew up bilingually - German-Russian. She studied Social and Cultural Anthropology with a focus on Organisational Anthropology and Intercultural Communication, during which she was qualified as an intercultural trainer and awarded the German Scholarship. In addition to her studies, she researched corporate culture at one German and one Malaysian location of a German corporation, trained as an international work camp leader, gained experience in NGO work in Jordan, worked in the field of sustainability and deepened her skills as an intercultural trainer on a voluntary basis within the student association SINIK (Student Initiative for Intercultural Communication). As a trainer, she works on the topics of culture(s), intercultural communication, change of perspective, diversity, intercultural sensitization and collaboration in diverse teams.