Wednesday, 21 September 09.00-12.30, 13.30-16.15

Online and offline: blended learning for intercultural trainers and learners
 
   

The web changes the way we work, learn and socialize. How can interculturalists use this resource to create intercultural collaboration and learning without losing quality? How true is the claim that online learning can push our profession beyond its traditional limitations and challenges?

This workshop will provide a framework for intercultural professionals to make informed choices about using online learning in their work. We will:

  1. Discuss the opportunities and challenges of the internet for trainers, coaches and consultants
  2. Define and compare the main online learning methods in intercultural training
  3. Identify the necessary skills for successful intercultural coaching and training online
  4. Design an intercultural training programme including online learning
  5. Explore how intercultural trainers can partner with a technology provider, and make it work for them.

The Workshop on 21 September will include facilitated discussion, case study work in small groups, training exercises and peer coaching.

The workshop process will start in early September with some online activities leading to the one-day face-to-face session at the Congress on 21 September. We’ll continue online through to the end of the year with opportunities to use online learning methods in real training situations.

By the end of the workshop process, participants will have a firmer understanding of the challenges and opportunities of web-based learning for their work, a framework for comparing available tools as well as new commercial, pedagogical and practical skills and knowledge.

Who should come to this workshop?

Any academic or practitioner in the intercultural field or HRD professional interested in expanding into web-based intercultural learning, and wanting to experience ‘real’ online cultural competence development. All levels of intercultural and e-learning experience are welcome. No technical skills are necessary.

Workshop facilitators:

Caroline Beery

Caroline Beery is co-founder of Coghill & Beery International, an intercultural management consulting firm that provides online training, consulting and coaching for global companies. Prior to establishing Coghill & Beery International in 1992, Caroline worked as a consultant and trainer developing and facilitating leadership and teambuilding, programs the UK.

With Myers Briggs training, a background in 360-degree survey-feedback, and extensive cross-cultural experience, Caroline's current work focuses on coaching executives and international project teams in global organisations. She continues to teach university courses on managing in multicultural environments.

Caroline holds a BA degree in History from Smith College in Massachusetts. She has studied at the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication in Portland, Oregon and the Tavistock Clinic for continuing education in group dynamics. Caroline is a member of SIETAR UK and has spoken at SIETAR Europa conferences in Bath, Stavanger and Berlin. Before moving to London with her husband and two daughters, she lived and worked in Tokyo.

 

Richard Farkas

Richard Farkas is a designer of e-learning content and consults on e-learning solutions in which trainers have a central role. He is Managing Director of Transdemica, which provides consulting and e-learning content creation services to training providers, government agencies and large corporations.

Richard has worked on five separate e-learning solutions for intercultural trainers since 1998, the latest of which being ArgonautOnline. Richard's career began in the HR department of Unilever. Then, having graduated as MSc (Industrial Relations and Personnel Management) from the London School of Economics, Richard worked in HR for a further four years at Manchester University and Manchester Business School.

Since his short sideways step into e-learning in 1998, Richard has worked closely - though often remotely - with intercultural trainers on countless training projects for clients such as ABB, Microsoft, Nokia, Nestlé, P&O, GSK and more. Richard is British and lives in Finland where he enjoys the dry climate and the dry humour.

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Wednesday, 21 September 09.00-12.30, 13.30-16.15

Price per participant will be €150. This includes two coffee breaks and lunch.

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