Intercultural Strategic Communication – The online training to Intercultural Intelligence and Dialogue Skills
With this training you will know how to improve work efficiency by intercultural understanding, with new Dialogue Techniques, while enhancing your understanding of Cultural Influences and Perceptions.
Objectives
By completing this online workshop, participants acquire key intercultural skills and will:
- Improve their perception of others during negotiations and their capacity to hear what is said between the lines;
- Build common grounds for a more beneficial collaboration;
- Understand cultural differences and similarities, become more sensitive to cultural cues;
- Increase everyone’s interoperability;
- Prepare for international mobility so as to become integrated in another culture as efficiently as possible.
Who Should Attend:
Diplomats, negotiators, mediators, envoys, military and other attachés, ministerial and other institutional officers, expatriates and their families, international sales and marketing directors and executives, and any other person acting within multicultural environments or promoting better understanding between parties.
How does it work?
Participant can attend in solo mode or in a group of 3. Sessions are a total of 12 hours, divided into 4 online classes. Participant/s will receive training materials and brain-training that will speed the memorization process. If need be, the participant/s can have up to 2 follow up training sessions as counseling sessions to discuss real life cases they encounter.
- The price for a solo participant is 1’200 €.
- The price for a two-person session is 2’200 €.
- The price for a three-person session is 3’150 €.
Since IFDII has the Qualiopi quality reference, in France, trainings can be funded by the employer’s fund for the employees.
What do we cover on the training materials:
Pre-training: participants write a short text (3 paragraphs) in which they summarize their problem situations, guided by the questions discussed in the preparatory phone conversation.
Training Program includes:
A: Identify who is at play – Me and You
We are multiple selves. Understanding this plural I.
Who are we speaking to? Facing the 6 different audiences.
B: Speaking overtly and covertly – strategies of clarity and ambiguity
The message and the meaning.
The rules of clear conversation and the choice of ambiguity.
Hearing the other’s message, between the lines, to bypass censorship.
Participants are given examples from the Manual for Speaking Overtly and Covertly©.
C: Our cognitive system – understanding each other faster
How does our brain generate meaning?
D: Cultures and tools of intercultural intelligence
All similar and all different, perceiving differences: causes and consequences. Gender, cultural, and national differences.
Deciphering the other: cultural values, attitudes or preferences.
Increasing everyone’s interoperability.
E: A Protocol of Intercultural Intelligence Questioning
Resorting to the Protocol for Intercultural Questioning (PROFICQ©) becomes a habit.
Optional choice, from the short sessions: Either “Women and freedom of speech”, “Laughter, a tool of negotiation” or “Silence and well-being”.
Prerequisites: there are no required pre-conditions to attend this workshop.
Moderator profile: This training is moderated by intercultural intelligence expert Claudine Korall, President of IFDII. Other experts may occasionally be invited to present a session as part of the program.
Teaching Methodology: this intercultural intelligence training is based on real-life examples and easily understood and integrated know-how, so as to provide the solutions sought for by participants. Teaching varies and is adapted to the audience. Workshops are interactive, dynamic, and clearly transmitted.
The knowledge is derived from various areas such as communication, multicultural management, anthropology (sociology and the study of civilizations) and cognitive sciences.
How is “Intercultural Strategic Intelligence” different from our other workshops:
All of our trainings carry the basics of intercultural intelligence; this particular workshop is built to suit online training. It has a strong emphasis on improving participants’ capacity to perceive the differences between self and others, and on facilitating the search for common grounds.
