Global Leadership Development & Training Programmes

Global management and global leadership require different skills to other kinds of managers.

Global management and global leadership challenges

  • The people you are leading come from different cultures and are based in several locations and timezones;
  • Global managers have limited face-to-face time and need to make an impact through technology and stay visible to your people;
  • You need to make practical decisions on where to be global and where to be local: global managers know that one size does not always fit all;
  • You need to create clarity, direction and effective implementation in a complex international environment;
  • You need to lead, communicate, inspire and involve across barriers of language, culture and communications technology;
  • Your followers are diverse and have widely different ideas about what they expect from a leader. The leadership style that works in one country may fail in another;
  • Despite international business complexity, you need to deliver things rapidly;
  • You need to balance and lead multiple stakeholders and competing priorities;
  • There are only 24 hours in a day – and someone, somewhere in the world needs you for all of them.

There are some different skills involved in making global organizations work but most global managers have little time and budget to learn by trial and error.

Global Integration can offer practical help to improve skills in this area.

Elsewhere on this site, you can find more details about Global Integration's approach to several of these elements; we have experience, tools and training materials in cross cultural, remote and virtual and matrix management skills.

Once we understand the particular environment you work in, the cultures you deal with and the maturity of your audience, we can quickly put together a global leadership training program or coachng process that addresses your specific needs and builds on the existing skills of your target audience or team.

To discuss your specific needs please, call us now

Video on managing people across barriers of distance, cultural differences, working through technology, across time zones and in highly complex matrix and global organization structures.

Podcast - Life in a Matrix: Global Leadership On what it takes to be a global leader in today’s complex organizations.

Podcast - Life in a matrix: Cross Cultural Skills Development A practical and embedded approach to cross-cultural skills.

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Five barriers to global leadership The video shown above, with a transcription

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