WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:

Understanding cross-cultural communication is important for any organization that has a diverse workforce or plans on conducting global business. This type of communication involves an understanding of how people from different cultures speak, communicate, and perceive the world around them.

In this workshop, we will help to increase your team’s cultural knowledge so that when dealing with people of different cultures you will all understand why or how you may do things. We want to help you understand different people and their cultures, no matter how different they are from you and be able to adapt to these different cultures and cultural norms to improve your business.

TOPICS COVERED:

  • Cultural Influence on Behaviors
  • High and Low Context Cultures: Intercultural Communication of Association, Interaction, Territoriality, Temporality, Learning
  • Keeping Language Simple
  • How to be Empathetic to Other Cultures
  • How to Create a Better Understanding to Strengthen Tolerance, Understanding, Empathy, and Acceptability of People, Who May be Different than You

GOALS/ OBJECTIVES:

  • Develop more respect and support for cultural groups different from you
  • Develop a deeper respect for communication differences across cultures
  • Understand the changes, similarities, and differences, amongst various societal norms
  • Understand different ways of communicating effectively across cultures
  • Explore universal emotions and behaviors among different cultures and societies
  • Work on developing a more global world view

IMPACT:

  • Lower turnover; higher retention
  • Higher innovation and better effects on organizational performance
  • Employees feel more respected, cared for and are more present and engaged
  • More ease in working together to reach your business goals
  • Teams work together more seamlessly
  • Drive workplace success
  • Improve intercultural communication in the workplace

FORMAT: Live interactive webinar ("Synchronous") on Zoom

DURATION: 4-hour course

WHEN: Ongoing

LOCATION: Virtual

INVESTMENT: $300 per person

Workshop Facilitator

Kelly Lewis-Arthur, Ph.D. : Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Dr. Kelly M. Lewis-Arthur is a Licensed Psychologist (Georgia and Washington DC) and the President of GlobeCoRe, Inc. with over 20 years of combined expertise in psychotherapy, coaching, psychological evaluation, workshops and trainings, and cultural immersion experiences across a number of topic domains. She is well published in these areas and has received numerous awards for her national and international work. Dr. Lewis-Arthur received her B.A. in Psychology from DePaul University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical-Community Psychology from Michigan State University. After completing her pre-doctoral residency at Yale University and her post-doctoral fellowship at Emory, Dr. Lewis-Arthur worked for several years as a consultant to the CDC and as a professor of Psychology at GSU and Walden University. She is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Emory School of Medicine.

Dr. Lewis-Arthur has worked with individual, couples, family, group and organizational clients across a variety of settings including outpatient hospitals, clinics, university counseling centers, shelters, schools, public health agencies, community based mental health agencies, non-profits, and corporations. As a recognized expert in empowerment and culturally relevant treatment approaches, her programs employ collaborative, safe, nurturing, and solution focused processes that facilitate positive growth and whole body wellness for children, adolescents, adults and aging populations. She works with clients to overcome adversity, secure fresh perspectives and new directions for the next phase of life. 

Her theoretical orientation is primarily systems-based with roots in interpersonal, CBT and solution-focused approaches. Essentially, she works with clients to facilitate individual and systems level change within a context that is empowering, culturally sensitive, interpersonal, solution focused and supportive of the cultural world view of those she works with. She has taught and mentored doctoral level clinicians-in-training and presented at national/international conferences and workshops on the topics of multi-cultural mental health, diversity and cross-cultural psychology, empowerment approaches to treatment, life and career coaching, family-systems therapy, community psychology and prevention, program evaluation, and women's issues. Dr. Kelly's hobbies include: traveling, exploring new cultures, cooking, spending time with family/friends, enjoying the outdoors and adventure activities and being near the water.

Explore universal emotions and behaviors among different cultures and societies
Understand the changes, similarities, and differences, amongst various societal norms
Develop a deeper respect for communication differences across cultures

For information about our Corporate Workshops, please contact our office at:

https://globecoreinc.com

(770) 284-1044