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