Global Perspective Seminars

Making Connections Seminar Series

Making Connections is a seminar series that helps your staff understand and work effectively in a more integrated global economy.  Each seminar can be purchased separately and customized into 2-hour, half-day or full-day sessions. Your organization’s area of focus and time constraints determine the program that best fits your needs.

Making Connections:  Developing Your Global Perspective

This seminar provides the disruption to think differently about challenges and opportunities in the 21st Century by presenting an overview of the changes occurring in the world today and the forces behind those changes.  Participants will gain a better understanding of the world as a whole and why they should continue to learn more about the places and people with whom they are increasingly connected.  They will develop patterns of globalization, population, culture and economic development, as well as background of emerging economies and tools for effective cross-cultural interactions. 

Making Connections:  Understanding India and China

This seminar applies patterns of globalization and forces of change to India and China, whose economic rise is actually a reemergence of the role they held as world powers long before the U.S. was founded.  Many organizations are finding that a deeper understanding of these demographic and economic giants is critical to their success. Participants will gain a better understanding of the people, potential, and pitfalls of these two emerging nations, along with the perspective needed to think strategically about their involvement with them.

*Prerequisite recommended:  Introduction to Globalization and Our Changing World                                                   

Making Connections:  Understanding Americans

This course was originally designed for Indians working for a Minneapolis-based Fortune 100 retailer in their offshore facility in Bangalore, India.  Participants will gain a deeper understanding of Americans and how they, as people, were shaped by their geography and history.  It is also helpful for Americans, who will gain the perspective of how others view them.  

Knowing who we are and the forces that shaped our nation and national culture is an important step towards learning how to deal effectively with individuals from other countries.  In addition, this course will reiterate the fact that many nations have diversity within their populations and stereotyping a group based on their citizenship can lead to misconstrued assumptions.

Other Seminars

Effective Global Teams

Managing a Culturally Diverse Workforce

Working With Indians:  Bridging the U.S./India Cultural Divide

Living and Working Abroad

Working With ______ (country and region-specific workshops)

Repatriation:  The Art of Coming Home

Understanding and Succeeding in the Business Culture of North America

Interactive Seminars

Not only are supply chains becoming more international, so are the people within organizations.  In today’s diverse business environment, a wealth of information lies within the company and can be maximized through strategic discourse.   Each seminar includes interactive methods of instruction to facilitate an open dialogue and take advantage of the variety of human resources within the conference.

Customize Your Seminar

Global Perspective can also work with you to develop a different seminar, with new content, which focuses on the areas in which your organization is interested and combines content found in the original courses.

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