INTRODUCTION
Clingendael Academy has trained professionals from over 125 countries from six continents. Drawing on this vast intercultural experience and from the latest findings in the academic field of intercultural communications, this course will help professionals to improve their intercultural knowledge, awareness and skill-set. We give approximately 225 intercultural communication training sessions yearly.
Participants will learn to better equip themselves against the challenges arising from communicating with parties that operate from a different cultural frame of reference and adhere to different norms and values, whether they be a business partner from across the globe, or a colleague from another department.
Is this training for you?
This course is specifically designed for professionals that work in an international or multi-organisational context, and want to take their communication skills to the next level in order to become more effective in their professional surroundings, for example:
- Civil servants (ministry, provincial and community level) working on international coorporation and/or diversity files.
- NGO-professionals
- Professionals working internationally for multinationals or in the private sector
- Academics or applied educating professionals
This course does not require any particular prior training.
What will you learn?
After following this training course, participants will:
- Understand how culture influences communicative processes;
- Increase awareness of their own cultural perspective and bias;
- Learn to recognize and avoid intercultural pitfalls;
- Be able to differentiate between national culture, professional culture and organisational culture;
- Increase conceptual and regionally specific understanding of cultural communicative preferences;
- Acquire competences that allow for effective communication across cultural barriers.
Which methods will be used?
According to the ABC Model, intercultural competence is achieved when Awareness, Behaviour and Cognition are combined.
- Awareness: awareness of how culture conditions our behaviour and interpretations of others
- Behaviour: active listening, behavioural flexibility, and coping- and de-escalation strategies
- Cognition: understanding of different regional cultural behavioural & communicative preferences
Your own cultural bias
An essential precondition to effective intercultural communication is awareness of your own cultural bias. Using practical exercises, this course enhances the communicative skills that professionals need to ensure that their (non-)verbal messages are interpreted at intended.
- How do I see the world?
- And does this differ fundamentally from the way others around me view it?
This awareness is then coupled to an understanding of how different cultures around the world generally feel about and deal with issues such as hierarchy, time and relationship-building, amongst others, also known as intercultural categorisations through a reference to a variety of scientific sources.
Taking all this into account, participants are subsequently encouraged to reflect with each other on their own intercultural experiences through a structural methodology:
- How was culture of influence on what happened?
- And how can it inform me to effectively handle similar situations in the future?
Before the course, participants are asked to specify their learning objectives/ intercultural competences, so that during the course trainers can accurately facilitate learning in those areas that the participants are looking to improve.
Meet the Trainers
Paul Hendrix
Paul is a highly experienced and certified trainer and has facilitated training sessions for the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defence, and Justice and Security, the European External Action Service, and several organizations from the private and the non-governmental sectors.
Maaike Aans
Maaike is an intercultural professional with a wide area of expertises: intercultural communication, diversity policy, language policy, intercultural mediation and competencies. As an intercultural expert, Maaike teaches people who work in an international environment how to cope with multilingual and cultural diversity issues in different international contexts.
What else you need to know
All course materials will be provided prior to the course via an individual online learning environment. Participants do not require to order any materials in advance.
Costs for this two-day training are €1.100,-. You can qualify for a 10% discount if five or more people from the same organisation apply.
This course does not require any particular prior training. It is a general-level course within the Clingendael Academy’s international skills’ training. The course can be followed in preparation or subsequent to other applied skills’ training courses with intercultural components, such as the seminar on international negotiations or international mediation and consensus-building.
The working language of this course will be English.
Questions?
If you have any questions, doubts or want to meet first? Please do not hesitate to call or e-mail our trainers Maaike Aans or Paul Hendrix. They are happy to assist you with any questions. If you want to know more about the Clingendael Academy in general such as our mission, background and other trainings read our brochure. Would you prefer to have a tailor-made negotiation training for your organisation? Please contact us.
Our general terms and conditions apply to this course.
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