The Kozai Group is pleased to announce their partnership with the Intercultural Communication Institute (ICI).  For over thirty years the Intercultural Communication Institute (ICI) has been the thought and practice leader in the field of international and cross-cultural training and education.  The Kozai Group will be working with ICI on a wide variety of services.  Qualifying Seminars to prepare professionals to use the Global Competencies Inventory (GCI) will be administered by the ICI team and taught by Kozai partners. To learn more about ICI please go to: www.intercultural.org

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Developing Your Intercultural Competencies:  Principles, Tools, and Techniques

Seminar Leaders: Chad Stewart and Zach Smith
Date:  July 26-30, 2010.  For location and enrollment details, click here

What could you gain by developing the core competencies required to lead, work and live in diverse and intercultural environments? How could you benefit by learning to use the tools and processes that have improved the intercultural competence and leadership capability of senior managers in global organizations such as Daimler, P&G, Pfizer and Unilever? The Developing Intercultural Competence workshop guides participants through a journey of discovery and development using the tools and processes that serve as the core set of intercultural competencies as researched by the Kozai Group of leading scholars and practitioners.

Participants will have the opportunity to:

• Gain a personal & professional understanding of the core intercultural competencies that enhance personal leadership.
• Learn tools & technologies to deepen understanding and proficiency in the core intercultural competencies.
• Apply one’s understanding and the tools and techniques to real world scenarios.
• Develop a personal plan to retain progress made in the core competencies during the workshop into the future.

The Use, Evaluation, and Application of Intercultural Competencies Instrumentation in the Profit and Not-for-Profit Sectors

Seminar Leaders: Allan Bird and Michael Stevens
Date:  July 14-16, 2010. For location and enrollment details, click here.

Various inventories and questionnaires exist that can be used to assess individuals’ intercultural skills for purposes of awareness-building, training and development, curriculum evaluation, institutional assessment, and personal managerial development.  This seminar will review the spectrum of inventories currently in use and will give participants the opportunity to use the tools and apply them in organizational case scenarios.

Learning Activities

The workshop will be highly interactive, and will include the following experiences:

• Active learning through case studies and team discussion of readings
• Peer exchange of inventory scores and assessments
• Team generation of various types of program and intervention designs based on inventory results
• Giving and receiving coaching based on inventory results
• Strategic human resource management planning scenario building

The Assessment, Development, and Nurture of Global Leaders: Insights from the Front

Seminar Leaders: Mark Mendenhall and Joyce Osland
Date:  July 19-23, 2010.  For location and enrollment details, click here

Organizations are struggling to understand the ways in which the globalization process influences leadership. Research shows that one of the primary human resource concerns of organizations that operate globally is the dearth of managers who possess global leadership skills.  Developing global leaders is a major concern in these organizations, and this workshop is designed to bring participants up to speed regarding what is known in the research literature regarding global leadership and the current best practices for the development of global leaders.  This workshop will especially be beneficial to management consultants, in-house HR managers and trainers, not-for-profit organization members tasked with working in cross-cultural/global contexts, and educators who teach courses that involve content that relates to intercultural effectiveness in social and work settings.

Participants will have the opportunity to:

• Identify the multidisciplinary roots of global leadership as a theoretical construct and empirical phenomenon
• Review the current state of global leadership research and practice
• Understand the current realities of global leadership development in multinational corporations
• Identify and compare various models of global leadership development
• Identify the characteristics of global leaders based on the presenters’ comprehensive research
• Learn how organizations can develop and support global leaders
• Understand the connection between global leadership and expatriation
• Develop tools for designing and conducting global leadership programs
• Explore how effective leaders lead change in global organizations
• Identify approaches for designing global leadership development programs in organizations

Learning Activities

The workshop will be highly interactive, and will include the following experiences:

• Modeling of methods commonly used in global leadership programs
• Discussion of case studies and readings
• Peer exchange of best practices
• Team generation of global leadership development program designs

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Mark Mendenhall, Joyce Osland, Allan Bird, Gary Oddou, and Martha Maznevski have written an important new book on global leadership.  Global leadership: Research, Practice, and Development, published by Routledge Press, defines the skill set that global organizations are now looking for in global leaders.  Global leadership is an emerging field that seeks to understand and explain the impact of globalization processes on leadership. This is the first book to review the theoretical, empirical and conceptual literature on this important subject, and to analyze what this body of knowledge means for managers who lead in a global business context.

Accessible to both student and practitioner alike, it explains how changes in the global context have created a demand for a distinctive set of qualities for effective leaders. This volume defines the skill set that global organizations are now looking for, highlighting the need to establish communities across diverse groups of stakeholders and initiate change as key aspects of global leadership. It also presents a critical analysis of the training and development of global leaders of the future.

Global leadership: Research, Practice, and Development provides an important overview of a key emerging area within business and management. It is essential reading for students of leadership, organizational theory, strategic management, human resource management, and for anyone working and managing in the global arena.