October 2015 Program - How to Work Effectively with Multi-Cultural Teams

To be able to function properly in any position in any modern organization, especially in the United States, it is essential to be able to adapt and collaborate with people coming from any culture. To achieve this in a more fluid way, it is necessary to be culturally competent. The goal of this workshop is to help the participants to develop the necessary skills to understand the elements of culture and the way people from different parts of the planet behave, in order to strengthen those differences for the good of the workgroup and the community.

The benefits of the workshop are:

- Understanding of the elements of culture.

- Knowledge of the individual cultural dimensions of each participant

- Ability to recognize the cultural origin of the behavior of each person.

- Rise of the capacity to respond properly to the behaviors of people from other part of the world.

- Improvement of the communication with people from other cultures.

- Increase of the capacity to make the most of the trips, business or pleasure, to countries with other cultures.

 Presented by: Jose Pablo Alcazar

Pablo is founder and owner of JPA Innovation + Strategy, a consultancy firm dedicated to help individuals and organizations to improve and develop their creativity, innovation and strategy skills, and to trained teams in cultural competence. Additionally he is a structural engineering consultant in Mexico, where he owns his own firm. Pablo is certified as a FourSight thinking profile trainer and facilitator. He designs and delivers workshops in creativity, innovation, and cultural competence for the public sector, investors, designers, educators, and the business community.

Pablo has taught as a lecturer eight different engineering and innovation courses in three different universities in Mexico. He has performed the structural design of over 70 different construction projects like office buildings, houses, apartment complexes, and factories. He has also participated in more than 50 creativity, innovation, and strategy training and facilitation experiences with very diverse clients.