SIETAR INDIA
proudly announces their next event
Pune Expat Round Table
Sponsored by Crown Relocations
Date: Friday, 18 November 2011
Venue: MCCIA, 5th Floor, ICC Towers, Senapati Bhapat Road, Pune
Time: 9:00am - 1:00pm followed by lunch
Fee: non-members Rs. 800, SIETAR/MCCIA Members and Crown Clients Rs. 600
Please reserve a seat for this event by contacting:
Jill Sheldekar at sietarindia@gmail.com or Poorvi Sharma at psharma@crownrelo.com
s for more information and the agenda please see the attached invitation.
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Online Tools for Virtual or Live Intercultural Training
There is a growing need for interculturalists to have a sound understanding of existing tools for online and virtual training. A faltering global economy combined with a push to move into diverse markets has corporations looking for cost effective programs to develop intercultural competencies for their executives. This highly interactive presentation will demonstrate how web-based tools with intercultural profile assessments can be used to: 1) Move beyond cultural generalizations and assumptions, 2) Create more targeted and specific training and consulting programs and 3) Improve communication between individuals and teams with simple customized role plays
The presentation will also include a demonstration on how to compare individual profiles using these tools, how they can help avoid stereotyping and how they can prevent misguided intercultural coaching and training. Case studies that compare the methods used in various training situations will also be provided. Additionally, participants will participate in role plays that will be created and customized based on profile results.
Presenter: Shelley Morrison is an experienced educator, coach, trainer and facilitator. Her firm, Shelley Morrison Associates, provides consulting and training in marketing, negotiations, communications and intercultural relations for her corporate, non-profit and higher education clients. Shelley Morrison Associates is based in Seattle, Washington and provides services directly to clients as well as through affiliations with other global talent development companies. Shelley is a certified administrator of the MBTI (Myers Briggs), DISC, the IDI (Intercultural Development Inventory) and the Intercultural Conflict Style Inventory. Shelley also has over 25 years of professional experience which includes broadcast journalism and executive roles in communication, sales and marketing. She was a featured speaker at Moving Beyond Mobility in Berlin, the SIETAR USA Conferences 2009 and 2011, the University of Washington’s MBA Global Forum and their Foundation for International Understanding through Students. Shelley’s presentation for this Mumbai learning event will be on the same topic which she presented at the SIETAR Denver conference earlier this year.
About the tools: This presentation will feature four online intercultural tools including:
Please reserve a seat for this event by contacting:
Mala Malkani : malamalkani@rediffmail.com
Jill Sheldekar : sietarindia@gmail.com
The presentation will also include a demonstration on how to
compare individual profiles using these tools, how they can
Date:
Friday, 26 August 2011
Venue:
Goethe- Institute Max
K. Dubhash Marg, Kala Choda,
Fee:
SIETAR members Rs. 100
Non Members Rs. 200
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Roundtable on Expatriate Management
Organised by SIETAR India and Crown Relocations
Expat expectations and how does Chennai match up to them?
September 10, 2011, Chennai
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Intercultural Development Inventory® (IDI® v.3):
Qualifying Seminars 2011 Schedule
Mitchell R. Hammer, Ph.D., IDI, LLC
The Intercultural Development Inventory® v.3 (IDI®) is a statistically reliable, cross-culturally valid measure of an individual's and group's intercultural competence adapted from the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity. The IDI® v.3 is customized for educational use and various organizational applications. The IDI® is translated into Bahasa Indonesia/Malay, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The IDI® has been successfully used since 1998 in corporate, academic, and other settings to aid individual coaching and action-planning, to guide real and virtual multicultural team development, to generate needs analyses for targeted training, and to conduct program evaluation, organizational development, diversity programs, and research efforts. The IDI® and associated products and services are owned and operated by Mitchell R. Hammer, Ph.D., through IDI, LLC. UPCOMING IDI® QUALIFYING SEMINARS BANGALORE, INDIA July 11-13, 2011 Seminar schedule: Day 1 * 8:30 am-5:30 pm Day 2 * 8:30 am-5:30 pm Day 3 * 8:30 am-1:00 pm Participants must stay in the QS until 1:00 pm to receive IDI Certification Attendance and successful completion of an IDI® Qualifying Seminar, and consent to a licensing agreement, are required to use the IDI® assessment. Participants will receive detailed interpretive guidelines, and written descriptions of procedures. During the seminar, participants will: Gain proficiency in using the IDI® v.3 for increasing intercultural competence for individuals, teams, and organizations Learn how the IDI® differs from traditional measures of intercultural competence Review the rigorous cross-cultural validity and reliability research protocols used in developing the IDI® Learn how to interpret individual and group IDI® profiles of intercultural competence Practice giving IDI® Group and Individual Report feedback in supportive, role-play scenarios Gain skills in using the IDI® for training needs assessment, program evaluation, and other "large group" assessments
IDI® QUALIFYING SEMINAR, BANGALORE, INDIA
Date:
July 11-13, 2011
Venue
: Mercure Homestead Residences Bangalore 12th Main-Koramangala 3rd Block 560034 Bangalore- India
(45 kms from the airport Within 5 kms of major corporate businesses and IT parks)
Suggested Accommodation options:
Mercure Homestead Residences, 12th Main-Koramangala 3rd Block 560034 Bangalore- India
Tel (+91) 80/45121212 Fax (+91) 80/45121213 Email: h7155-re@accor.com Website: www.accorhotels.com/gb/hotel-7155-grand-mercure-bangalore/restaurant.shtml
Tuition for the seminar:
Tuition: $1,800.00 plus tax if applicable
Nonprofit educational tuition: $1,500.00 plus tax if applicable
To register go to: www.idiinventory.com and click on the « Registration » tab
Tuition includes: Seminar, seminar handouts, individual IDI® Profile with feedback, coffee breaks and buffet lunch. Housing, breakfast, and dinner are not included. Tuition is due prior to attendance.
Any questions: Debra Freathy, IDI® Program Coordinator IDI, LLC Phone: +001-410-208-1120 • Fax: +001-443-926-0416 Email: idi@idiinventory.com • Website: www.idiinventory.com
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Diversity Icebreaker
Discover the Diversity Icebreaker concept by participating in an authentic seminar of 1 hour followed by the possibility to discuss different user contexts – with a particular focus upon cross-cultural contexts and conflict resolution processes.
Date : Wednesday 30th March 2011
Venue: Alliance Française de Bangalore
Time: 7pm to 9pm
Entry Fee : Free
About the Diversity Icebreaker concept:
Diversity Icebreaker ® is a questionnaire and a seminar that creates a safe psychological climate for a group of people to share ideas about differences between individuals, cultures and organizational units.
Diversity Icebreaker seminar develops an open climate based on respect and trust. The concept is often used in multicultural settings and makes the approach towards discussions of cultural differences easier by creating a culturally neutral «third language». It creates trust by the open sharing of prejudices without punishment. Humor and common understanding creates hope and predictability about how diversity is applied. Diversity Icebreaker shows that people's preferences can be different in the same culture and alike across different cultures. The concept has proved its efficiency in more than 25 countries already both with uni-culture and multi-culture groups (Europe, Asia, Africa and US)
The Diversity Icebreaker seminar itself takes about 60 minutes. It is most often used for groups with 12 to 40 participants, but is also applied in teams with 4-8 team members and in large group processes with up to 150 to 200 persons in the same room at the same time. Applications besides cross-cultural training are personal /team/organizational development, negotiation and communication training and kick-offs.
Facilitator: Bjørn Z. Ekelund
Bjørn Z. Ekelund is a Norwegian business consultant working mainly with team analysis, organizational development, cross-cultural issues, cultural change and strategic coaching. Having a theoretical background as Psychologist with an additional MBA, Bjørn is today Managing Director of Human Factors in Oslo since its creation in 1993 as well as Research Fellow at Centre for Global Workforce Strategy at Simon Fraser University in Canada.
Bjørn has developed several concepts whereof the Diversity Icebreaker and in 2009 he was awarded the prize: “Consultant of the year 2008” in Norway partly for his international breakthrough with this concept.
Bjørn works closely with academic and professional institutions in order to leverage quality of own consultancy and increase practical relevance of academic knowledge. He has been lecturing at management schools and has been leading professional bodies in organizational psychology in Scandinavia. He has published articles, books and presented his work and views of the field at different international conferences. Among customers Bjørn is known as a dedicated professional with a passion for working with customer’s challenges from their perspective.”
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SIETAR INDIA, Mumbai Chapter is proudly presented its learning event
The Value Square:
A versatile tool for intercultural and behavioural competence
Presented by Ms. Supriya Gopi
In consulting, Supriya has extensively used an instrument known as the “Value Square”. Experience shows that when used in intercultural training, this instrument brings out a deeper and more multifaceted understanding and interpretation of values, thereby aiding learners in appreciating cultural dynamics, differences and similarities. This learning event will demonstrate with examples from various cultures and situations, the ways in which the Value Square can be applied in soft skills training to help understand personal, organizational and cultural values from a holistic approach.
Supriya Gopi is an independent consultant. She essentially offers intercultural training, communication skills training, team-building, cross-cultural leadership and Senior Executive coaching to several clients in India and Central Europe, most of whom are multinational corporations.
In the last 15 years, she has worked extensively with clients and business partners from India, Japan, China, Germany, Austria, Romania, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland, Brasil and the USA.
Supriya is a trained teacher of German as a foreign language, qualified by the Goethe-Institut Munich and has 11 years experience working in this field. In addition to a Master’s Degree in German, she is fluent in French and has a working knowledge of Spanish. Her clients include Robert Bosch GmbH, Daimler AG, HewlettPackard Limited, Microsoft Romania, Nokia Siemens Networks, Beissbarth GmbH and Fa. Mooser Consulting. As a member of the SIETAR (Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research) she has participated in and also presented at SIETAR India conferences.
Venue: Max Mueller Bhavan – Goethe Institute,
K.Dubhash Marg, Kala Ghoda, Fort, Mumbai 400 001.
Date: Tuesday, 05 May 2009
Time: 6.00 to 8.00 pm
Sietar Members : Rs 150, Non-members: Rs 200
We look forward to seeing you at the event.
For further Information and R.S.V.P, contact:
Mala Malkani
Mumbai
98332 80707
malamalkani@rediffmail.com
Guillaume Gevrey
Bangalore
98453 71177
guillaume@concept2competence.com
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TEXTRA! Read All About it! Never give another presentation!
In this fast-paced session, participants will learn a dynamic and fun method to enable a group of
people to rapidly become engaged with any topic that is important for the success of the particular
facilitation exercise. TEXTRA! is a well-tested methodology to use when it is important that all
participants are aligned on a body of “Subject Matter” to be able to continue with their work.
The big advantage of TEXTRA! is that it ensures participants are keenly engaged in the topic and
will be well aligned on the key distinctions related to the topic or theme participants are working on.
The workshop will be a live demonstration in which participants will learn the TEXTRA! facilitation
process by actually doing it.
The Facilitator:
Jawad Ahmed is a management graduate by education and trainer by passion. He is the India
representative of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF), USA and has trained more than
3000 people in some of the most renowned organizations across India and the Middle East.
He is a certified Behavioral Consultant, executive coach and founder of the Bangalore Facilitator
Network (BFN) in India. Jawad has a Postgraduate Diploma in Management from one of the
premier management institutes in Bangalore.
Date: Friday, May 15th, 2009
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A Romanian Case Study:
Culture and Language Learning in
Technical Support
This learning event will examine learner needs and curriculum development within a Romanian
context of global technical support. The project involved analyzing needs, designing, and
delivering new hire training for Romanian engineers to deliver technical support to enterprise
customers. These customers were located in France and Germany for a US company. The
presentation will briefly overview Romania as a country and Romanian cultural values, and move
on to examine learner needs driven by the Romanian context in serving this group of learners with
an effective, contextualized learning solution managing three languages and multiple cultures.
Ample time for questions and discussions will be provided.
The Presenters:
Supriya Gopi is an independent consultant. She essentially offers intercultural training,
communication skills training, team-building, cross-cultural leadership and Senior Executive
coaching to several clients in India and Central Europe, most of whom are multinational
corporations. In the last 15 years, she has worked extensively with clients and business partners
from India, Japan, China, Germany, Austria, Romania, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland,
Brasil and the USA. Supriya is a trained teacher of German as a foreign language, qualified by the
Goethe-Institut Munich and has 11 years experience working in this field. In addition to a Master’s
Degree in German, she is fluent in French and has a working knowledge of Spanish. Her clients
include Robert Bosch GmbH, Daimler AG, HewlettPackard Limited, Microsoft Romania, Nokia
Siemens Networks, Beissbarth GmbH and Fa. Mooser Consulting. As a member of the SIETAR
(Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research) she has participated in and also
presented at SIETAR India conferences.
Brian Schroeder works for Microsoft in Sales, Marketing & Services Group Readiness. He leads
the Culture and Communication Program for technical and management talent providing high-level
technical support to global customers. He works from Bangalore, India and has previously lived
and worked in China, Korea, Morocco, and the USA. Brian was raised in the USA and China, and
has been involved in adult learning and development since the beginning of his career. The bulk of
Brian’s experience has been in the corporate sector helping companies solve communicationrelated
performance and learning issues. He has served companies in financial services, FMCG,
manufacturing, IT, and hotels and tourism. In addition to Microsoft, some of the multinationals he
has worked with include Samsung and HSBC. His roles have included serving organizations in
various roles, including coaching senior executives and program design and development.
Date: Friday April 24th, 2009
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Cutting-edge insights and frameworks for building
Intercultural competence in the 21st century
Dr Mitchell Hammer will join the SITAR India Bangalore chapter to share his experiences in developing intercultural competence in education, corporations, government agencies and not-for-profit organizations. His talk will focus on the way interculturalists are “making a difference” with individuals, teams, organizations and communities.
Dr Hammer will share his thoughts on the successes and the challenges we all face in ensuring the “intercultural insight” contributes to bottom-line results and the accomplishment of goals.
Dr. Mitchell Hammer - Biography
Date: 26 September 2008 Time: 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Venue: SMSG Readiness / India GTSC
Microsoft India R&D Private Ltd
3/F Embassy Building
Embassy Golf Links Business Park
Off Intermediate Ring Road
Bangalore
RSVP required at the following contacts
Guillaume Gevrey: 98453 71177, guillaume@concept2competence.com
Melanie Martinelli: 98455 06934, mmartinelli@lets-bridge-it.com
Vinay Kumar: 98860 92760, vinay@concept2competence.com
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"Negotiations across Cultures - A conversation on Relationship"
We negotiate often in our daily lives. Some of those may be trivial and may not deserve care and conscious thought. But many do. The strange thing is that people rarely realize they are negotiating.
The Objective of today’s conversation is to try to get an insight, understanding and appreciation into two fundamental aspects of negotiations. The "Outcome" and The "Relationship".
That is the mantra as a negotiator. Understanding these will facilitate journeying, into the vast subject of negotiations, easier.
Presenters:
S.K.Raja is a corporate trainer and facilitator. He has over thirty four years of organizational experience as a business manager. He is an Engineer by qualification and his forte is International Marketing, Project Implementation and Conflict Resolution.
He is an avid student of Intercultural Communications and strongly believes in the dictum that "Cultural Know How is as important as Business Know How"
Ms.Shyleswari is a corporate trainer, counselor and the director of VED VYAS INNER SPACE - A CONNECTING POINT FOR HUMAN RELATIONS. Her fortes are self awareness (intra work), building interpersonal relationships and teams, emotional intelligence including anger management and creating attitudinal / behavioral shifts.
She has presented a paper on SPIRITUALITY AND INDIA and participated in NON-VIOLENT COMMUNICATION session at New Mexico CITY. She is currently involved with SIETAR and keen on relating to people, enhancing cultural sensitivity. She has interviewed by the media extensively (both print and electronic) and her articles have been published in leading magazines. Her client list include leading corporate like INFOSYS, SIFY, BHEL, I FLEX, MURUGAPPA GROUP, APOLLO HOSPITALS and institutions like LOYOLA COLLEGE, MADRAS SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK, TVS SCHOOL etc..,
Date: 3rd April 2008 Time: 6.30 to 7.30 p.m.
Venue: ICFAI Business school, 7, Conran Smith Road, Gopalapuram, Chennai - 600 083.
We look forward to seeing you at the event.
For further Information and R.S.V.P, contact:
Sreemati Ramnath: 944 4440299
(President, SIETAR India)
Sunita Nichani - 98401 38308
(Treasurer, SIETAR India)
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“Perceptions and culture”
Learning Event March '08
Synopsis of the learning event
Tara Publishing present a wonderful resource “ The London Jungle Book” by Bhajju Shyam, following which in a highly interactive format, Sreemati Ramnath, Karl Cogard and Sunita Nichani will animate activities and discussions around the theme of perceptions and culture. Bring all your enthusiasm and take away great ideas for enriching your training sessions.
Date: 13th March 2008 Time:: 6.30 to 7.30 p.m .
Venue: Alliance Française de Chennai, 24 College Road, Nungambakkam, Chennai 600006
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