Modulbeschreibung

Intercultural Competencies and Personal Development

ECTS-Credits:
6
Lernziele:

In today's global environment, there is a continuous increase in social and intercultural interactions.
Cooperating with people who are different than oneself is daily business,
Fostering empathy, social intelligence and intercultural competence are core competences to
handle the challenges of a complex and diverse world. To manage intercultural work situations
productively is key in this context and an important task of business administrators.
In this module students learn to integrate their feelings into their decision processes as well as the
way of conscious thinking. How to deal with negative and how to foster positive emotions? Which
thoughts help to gain success and which are counterproductive? In addition the students monitor
and train their strengths.
Additionally, business success requires intercultural comptence, i.e. the ability to position one's own
culture within the context of other cultures, and to utilise this together with the resulting
synergies.This module provides the foundations for recognising, respecting, and integrating cultural
differences and communalities. Students are provided with tools to be able to thrive across cultures.
Furthermore, potential barriers and how to deal with them are addressed.
Based on an outdoor environment, every student will reflect his or her role in dynamic teamdevelopment
exercises. With experimental and action guided learning everybody should be capable
to supervise strengths and weaknesses as well as the intercultural implications arising if working
together in multicultural teams.

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Intercultural Competencies and Personal Development:

Topic area: Course Introduction and Mindfulness

  • Module overview, assignments
  • Mindfulness as a basic for development in your thinking, attitudes and behaviour regarding
    personal development and fostering intercultural understanding.
  • Stay present, be in the here and now with all your senses.
  • Cultivate inner silence, relaxing techniques and calming done

 

Topic area: Positive Psychology & the Way of thinking

  • How can we strengthen ourselves and make us more resilient to the unstabilities of life?
    The theory of Positive Psychology after Martin Selgiman would be the students framework.
    As an integrated part students also learn to take care of our „emotional household“
    according to the five levels of emotional intelligence after Daniel Goleman.
  • Furthermore students learn to hold a focus on the way we are thinking. How does positive
    thinking affect our actions and lead to more success? What are the rules of positive and
    realistic thinking? Students learn techniques of auto-suggestion to guide our inner dialogue
    in daily life.

Topic area: Personal strengths training

  • Every student got the result from a personalized character strengths test. Next to the basics
    of strengths students learn about the importance of acting in cohesion with their strengths.
  • Several exercises are conducting to let students integrate the thinking in strengths into their
    daily life.

 

Topic area: The own culture

  • Culture and concepts of culture
  • Definition of main intercultural terms
  • Discovering one's own culture and how it influences one’s behaviour and thinking
  • How culture influences business
  • The reaction of individuals to the foreign: stereotypes, acculturation, and culture shock
  • What's required in global business: intercultural competence

 

Topic area: The foreign culture

  • When cultures collide: Critical incident (CI)
  • Learn to understand why:
    Tool 1: Cultural dimension according to Hall, Hofstede, and Trompenaars/Hampden-Turner
  • How culture influences communication: Basic model of communication
  • Communication styles according to Hall and Ting-Toomey

 

Topic area: The Intercultural

  • How to find solutions: apply 4 steps.
  • 4 steps to solve a CI
  • Possible options in intercultural situations

 

Topic area: ICPD Summary

  • Wrapping.up the semester
  • Connecting everything: Integration of all knowledge gathered for students personal
    development and their integrationa into a multicultural teamOutlook exam

 

Topic area: Experimental Learning Day (off campus)

  • This block takes part as a one day seminar in the nearby region. With the help of an
    external trainer there will be a focus on experimental and action guided learning. By the end
    of the workshop one should have explored topics like the reflection on personal
    development within a team or the individual impact on a team’s performance.
  • Furthermore everybody will have explored how to analyse and guide one’s emotions in
    unusual team situations.
  • A special focus will be held on the reflection about culturally mixed teams solving together
    tasks.
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