Developing a Global Mindset
Reserved for Students and Alumni of MIB Trieste School of Management
12 - 13 MAY 2025
DURATION: 2 training days (from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm)
LECTURERS: Tim Baxter, Core Faculty MIB Trieste School of Management
FEE for ALUMNI: €250 + VAT. Online attendance as auditors: APPLY
During this year, many of the Masters courses have seen aspects of cross cultural management, especially in terms of using cultural models to understand national tendencies. This looks at interculturalism as an academic topic rather than the challenge of managing different approaches, including your own, without being hijacked by your emotions. To operate successfully in an international context we must also include ourselves in the context.
The three-day session will look at the three stages necessary to work successfully in diverse contexts. We begin with cultural awareness – culture as an 'invisible glue’ that binds group behaviour. Next, we move to cultural sensitivity - understanding when and how different cultural approaches clash and impact on relationships and situations. Finally, we look at a number of key cultural models that allow us to create tools to manage difference and leverage synergy. This elective will require those participants who took The International Profiler (TIP) questionnaire to look again at their results and familiarise themselves with all 22 competencies. It will work to incorporate all the various cross-cultural inputs into a holistic approach which leverages on content, context and the individual to work towards developing a global mindset. This 'global mindset’ is not designed to create an in-depth knowledge of any single culture as in cross–cultural communication, but rather a general attitude towards diversity and change.
The course will help participants be able to find the balance between the need to be oneself and the need to adapt to situations by using a variety of simulations and exercises, these will be used to allow participants to move quickly from theory to controlled practice and align themselves with the needs of the specific context
12 - 13 MAY 2025
DURATION: 2 training days (from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm)
LECTURERS: Tim Baxter, Core Faculty MIB Trieste School of Management
FEE for ALUMNI: €250 + VAT. Online attendance as auditors: APPLY
During this year, many of the Masters courses have seen aspects of cross cultural management, especially in terms of using cultural models to understand national tendencies. This looks at interculturalism as an academic topic rather than the challenge of managing different approaches, including your own, without being hijacked by your emotions. To operate successfully in an international context we must also include ourselves in the context.
The three-day session will look at the three stages necessary to work successfully in diverse contexts. We begin with cultural awareness – culture as an 'invisible glue’ that binds group behaviour. Next, we move to cultural sensitivity - understanding when and how different cultural approaches clash and impact on relationships and situations. Finally, we look at a number of key cultural models that allow us to create tools to manage difference and leverage synergy. This elective will require those participants who took The International Profiler (TIP) questionnaire to look again at their results and familiarise themselves with all 22 competencies. It will work to incorporate all the various cross-cultural inputs into a holistic approach which leverages on content, context and the individual to work towards developing a global mindset. This 'global mindset’ is not designed to create an in-depth knowledge of any single culture as in cross–cultural communication, but rather a general attitude towards diversity and change.
The course will help participants be able to find the balance between the need to be oneself and the need to adapt to situations by using a variety of simulations and exercises, these will be used to allow participants to move quickly from theory to controlled practice and align themselves with the needs of the specific context
