Trainer training
1. The DPI accreditation workshop
The three-day DPI accreditation workshop is for trainers and consultants who design and deliver intercultural and international team training for their clients. The workshop:
- introduces the training approach and package
- prepares trainers and consultants to use the approach and materials in their own programmes.
Developing People Internationally (DPI) is a training approach plus a flexible collection of training resources which supports professionals working internationally. The approach helps to raise awareness and develop skills around:
- culture and its impact on behaviour in international teams
- personality and its impact on behaviour, particularly in the context of teams
- communication strategies to improve international teamwork
The training package consists of three core elements: video materials, audio materials and text resources. The thirty-minute video shows nine critical incidents in the life of an international project team. These are explored in nine learning modules:
- Team understanding - building relationships by understanding yourself and team colleagues
- Direction - committing to common goals for the whole team
- Organisation - establishing and coordinating clear processes for effective teamwork
- Roles - clarifying role expectations both internally and externally
- Developing people - supporting, coaching and training team members
- Feedback - observing performance and creating a culture of open feedback
- Representing - acting as the team ambassador, promoting the team and influencing others
- Conflict - dealing with personality and cultural clashes
- Cooperation - establishing and then maintaining trust in the team
The audio materials contain 80 minutes of interviews with over twenty managers working internationally.
The text materials provide:
- support for the video materials (explanations and tasks)
- Best Practice files about working in international projects
- a framework of intercultural competencies based on the International Profiler, an intercultural profiling tool used by York Associates.
Participants are familiarised with the nine DPI modules using a combination of trainer input and modelling, facilitated exchange of experience and ‘learning by doing’. On the final day, participants co-deliver one module of the training package. In addition, the workshop provides insight into intercultural theory and approaches to developing international teams through discussion and experiential activities.
Requirements to attend the DPI accreditation workshop
Participants should be familiar with basic intercultural theory and have some knowledge of the challenges faced by those working in international teams.
As the language of the workshop is English, participants who are not native speakers should have a good English language level in order to fully benefit from the programme.
For trainers looking for an introduction to intercultural training, we recommend the five-day programme offered by LTS Bath - Developing intercultural training skills. This course suits those newer to the field who wish to learn more about the theory and practice of intercultural training, both to integrate intercultural topics into their current training and also to deliver their own intercultural training courses. The programme would prepare trainers to attend our own DPI Accreditation Workshop. For more information, go to www.lts-training.com/ICTTcourse.htm
Participant feedback on the DPI accreditation workshop
The DPI accreditation workshop is the most valuable, comprehensive, practical, current, best-run course I have ever been on. If you want to become an intercultural trainer and only attend one course, this may well be it.
Patricia Craig, owner and language consultant, inspiring english, Sweden
Read more reviews from DPI acreditation participants
2. DPI Plus - New for 2010
A one-day extension workshop introducing and familiarising trainer with a new set of materials:
- Active listening: techniques to build mutual understanding
- Transparency: communicating a clear message in terms of both content and intention
- Synergy: facilitation skills which maximise the opportunity of diversity in groups
Each module consists of three parts:
| 1. Cultural and personal preferences: | awareness raising and orientation |
| 2. Communication skills: | defining best practice (support from the DPI video) |
| 3. Language skills: | using the right language (support from new audio material) |
DPI Plus materials will be included in a new release of the DPI DVD.
3. The International Profiler (TIP) licensing workshop from Worldwork
Worldwork will be offering the TIP licensing workshop alongside some of our DPI sessions in 2010. The International Profiler is a tool which enables trainer and coaches profile the international working style of professionals using an intercultural competence framework with ten core dimensions. The competence framework is closely linked to the DPI business challenges and both existing and new DPIers would benefit from access to this powerful feedback tool.
Find out more about Worldwork and The International Profiler at www.worldwork.biz
Dates and locations for 2010
| Stockholm, Sweden | |
26 - 28 March
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DPI accreditation workshop |
| Paris, France | |
30 April - 2 May
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DPI accreditation workshop |
| Bergamo, Italy | |
| 17 – 19 June | DPI accreditation workshop |
20 June
Milan, Italy
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DPI Plus
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| Lille, France | |
| 28 – 30 June (finishes 12.30) | DPI accreditation workshop |
| 30 June (starts 13.30) – 1 July | TIP licensing |
2 July
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DPI Plus |
| Frankfurt, Germany | |
| 30 August – 1 September (finishes 12.30) | DPI accreditation workshop |
| 1 September (starts 13.30) – 2 September | TIP licensing |
| 3 September | DPI Plus |
Prices
York Associates will take payment for the DPI accreditation workshop and DPI Plus. Worldwork will take payment for TIP Licensing. VAT @ 17.5% (payable on UK courses only).
| DPI accreditation workshop: | £895 |
| DPI Plus: | £300 |
The DPI prices include tuition and accreditation costs, all course materials, and the rights to use the DPI support material. 20% discount available to members of BESIG, SIETAR and other professional associations on the DPI accreditation workshop price.
| Worldwork TIP licensing: | £950 |
DPI trainers
Jeremy Comfort, Bob Dignen and Steve Flinders, directors of York Associates, and Nick Brieger, a former YA director and now external consultant, are all experienced in delivering intercultural and international team seminars and trainer training
Information and registration
For more information or to register for the Developing People Internationally accreditation programme, contact us directly.
