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The conference is now full (160 delegates).
However, please email us at training@york-associates.co.uk if you want us to put you on a waiting list in case we get any cancellations.
to take place on September 17 and 18 at the University of York, UK, with a welcome reception at Peasholme House, York, on September 16 at 6 p.m.
The key-note speakers are:
Dr. Dick McCann, TMS Development International
The Dynamics of High Performing Teams
Dr. Fons Trompenaars, Trompenaars Hampden-Turner Consulting:
Creativity and Leadership in High Performing Teams
Participants receive a complimentary copy of Fons Trompenaars’ latest book Servant Leadership across Cultures.
Robert Gibson will facilitate a World Café on
Intercultural Training for Teams: The Business Case
The conference is arranged around four thematic tracks. The tracks provide a platform for a number of lead speakers and for a range of 30-minute presentations and 45-minute workshops.
Teams, fairness and trust
Lead speakers:
Dr Graham Dietz , Durham Business School:
Trust-building across cultural boundaries: Theory and practice
Keith Jackson, Institute for Applied Trust Research, Stuttgart: Working with strangers: trust, teamworking and business performance
David Trickey, TCO International, Bologna: Getting specific about trust in international teams: managing trust in our team, in our context, now?
Presentations and workshops:
Crestani, Marianna: The Role of Trust in the Resistance to Change: The Effects of the Italian
Concept of Team-Building (presentation)
Dignen, Robert: Defining Trust and Strategies for Building Trust: Interviews with International
Project Managers (presentation)
Ewington, Nigel Building a Culture of Trust in Global Emergency Response Teams
(presentation)
Kramer, Jitske The Two Main Challenges in Managing Cultural Dynamics in Teams
(workshop)
Merk, Vincent Trust & Teams: Creating, Developing and Maintaining Trust in (Virtual) Teams (workshop)
Teams, culture and diversity
Lead speakers:
Dr Kazuma Matoba, Witten/Herdecke University : Managing diversity for third-culture building
Barry Tomalin , author of The World's Business Cultures: Ensuring a high-performance international
workplace
Presentations and workshops:
Carrasco, Carlos Reframing Complexity in International Management: New Times – New Challenges – New Mindset (presentation)
Claeye,* Frederik Forces Shaping the Emergence of Hybrid Management Systems in Southern Africa: A Pilot Study (presentation)*
Ekelund, Björn Social Construction of Interpersonal Categories (workshop)
Haag, * Markus Personal Values and their Impact on Team Performance (presentation)*
Raynaud, Marc Air France KLM: Lessons from a Successful Combination (presentation)
Rossi, Alexis Improving Satisfaction and Performance of Diverse Teams at an International University (presentation)
Sass, Anne & Hill, Tim Diversity and inclusion training at at Henkel AG & Co KgaA (presentation)
Waechter, Kirsten Team-Building across Companies after Mergers or Acquisitions (workshop)
*= young researcher slot
Teams, language and communication
Lead speakers:
Dr. Jo Angouri , University of the West of England: Managing disagreement in meeting talk at the multinational corporate workplace
Terry Brake , President TMA Americas: Virtual global collaboration: Cultural intelligence and beyond
Prof. Peter Franklin , HTWG Konstanz: Mindfulness – and what it has to do with language use in effective international teams
Presentations and workshops:
Bub, Carissa Working the White Space (workshop)
Fernandes, Anita &
Fernandes, Ashley Successful Selling and Multicultural Team Building in Asia (presentation)
Iqbal, Kwahar INTERTool (presentation)
Krause-Ono, Margit The Teaching of Intercultural Communication in Japan Academia: In Comparison to Germany and the U.S. (presentation)
Pilbeam, Adrian Working in a European team – Trials, Tribulations and Successes
(presentation)
Swallow, Deborah Transferring Knowledge across Global Teams (presentation)
Taylor, Susanne Using Images to Bridge Culture and Communication Gaps (workshop)
Teams and competences
Lead speakers:
Jeremy Comfort , Partner, York Associates: Developing skills for international business communication:
Active listening, transparency and synergy
Nigel Ewington, WorldWork Ltd. & Helen Spencer-Oatey, Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick: Developing ‘global people’ in international teams and partnerships
Presentations and workshops:
Bratke, Burkhard Developing Intercultural Competency as a Continuous Team Effort (presentation)
Cook, Richard The 'One Team programme' for the UK and India for a leading global retailer (presentation)
De Graef, Gunilla Intercultural Competence in Technical Training: Myth or Necessity? (presentation)
Kruse, * Nils Success Factors of Sino-German Teams (presentation)*
Stenbom, Anne The Missing Link: Cultural Synergistic Intelligence (workshop)
Sutherland, John Team Development (presentation)
Tromp, Jolanda Cultural Detective: Global Teamwork (workshop)
Wenzel, Kerstin & Wang
Fjørtoft, Anne-Marit How to Create Synergy in a German-Norwegian team: Critical Success Factors (presentation)
*= young researcher slot
PANEL DISCUSSION: ISSUES AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE CONFERENCE
What is the take-away from the conference? What are the next steps? In a final, plenary session, rapporteurs will briefly present the key topics and issues which attracted attention in the tracks. They will then be discussed by members of a panel of experts from a range of professional and cultural backgrounds and by members of the audience.
The panel consists of:
Robert Lugauer, Siemens AG, Konstanz, Germany
Vincent Merk, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Fay Niewiadomski, ICTN, International Consulting and Training Network, sarl, Beirut, The Lebanon
Jennifer Plaister, 10 Consulting Ltd., Sutton Courtenay, U.K
This session will be chaired by Ian McMaster, Business Spotlight, Munich, Germany.
The conference is now full (160 delegates).
However, please email us at training@york-associates.co.uk if you want us to put you on a waiting list in case we get any cancellations.
Book bed & breakfast accommodation at the university for £38.50 a night. Find out about hotel accommodation in York and how to travel to York .
