Enhance your teamwork skills in a complex environment
Doing a PhD or working in an intercultural research team is certainly both: inspiring and supportive on the one hand - as you can benefit from the existing diversity - and challenging on the other hand, as the different cultural backgrounds and imprints of the group members can harbor potential for conflict. Furthermore, it is important to deal consciously and constructively with gender differences in the team, which are naturally more prominent in an international group.
This three-part workshop, open for all genders, supports participants in reflecting on their own learned communication patterns, recognizing obstructive behaviors resulting from cultural and gender differences, and replacing them with constructive alternatives to promote effective and enjoyable collaboration. This also serves to prevent conflict - e.g. by avoiding misunderstandings - and strengthens a self-confident, positive approach to differences.
First session: Intercultural communication
- Basic theories about cultural differences and intercultural communication
- Reflection on own cultural values and imprints
- Development of strategies to better deal with difficult intercultural situations at work
Second session: Nonviolent communication by Marshall Rosenberg
- Introduction to the concept that facilitates constructive communication
- Exploration of human needs as our "common ground" that helps us explain and bridge differences between people and cultures
- Applying the concept to everyday challenges at work
Third session: Interculturality and Gender
- Basic theories of gender differences with a focus on interculturality
- Group sharing of difficult experiences with gender-specific situations in intercultural teams - what can we learn from each other?
- Practicing constructive interactions in representative scenarios.
In addition to theoretical inputs, the workshop focuses on interactive elements, practical exercises, group discussions and roleplays.
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