Intercultural project management

In companies that have a worldwide presence, it is common for project managers in the company headquarters and subsidiaries to lead projects using teams from different countries and cultures. Managing geographically and culturally diverse projects effectively requires an understanding of the communication challenges and cultural barriers that one must deal with in order to build a successful multi-cultural team with a single common goal and vision. Our intercultural project management seminar will help you to build cross-cultural awareness and to use cultural diversity to your creative advantage.

Global project management presents the following challenges:

• Location and time (dealing with different physical locations in different time zones).
• Language barriers.
• Cultural issues (efficiency, administration and reporting, misunderstanding…).

The challenges in multicultural project work are similar to those of any project work. They are a question of time, resources, finances, and quality. The team members must be able to adapt to values often very different from their own. The solution for managers and team members is a higher awareness of cultural differences and synergies. Each culture is, of course, different and each culture requires an understanding of its own. A project manager, therefore, needs a robust knowledge of the dynamics that cultures plays in project management.