Workshop: Working in Multicultural Teams
Working across cultures is both exciting and challenging. This interactive workshop helps you thrive in diverse teams by exploring cultural differences, sharpening communication, and turning conflicts into collaboration. Through exercises, role plays, and discussions, you’ll gain practical experience and leave with strategies for more effective and enjoyable teamwork. Organized by GGN and GGL.
- https://www.uni-giessen.de/en/faculties/ggn/events/workshops/multicultural_teams
- Workshop: Working in Multicultural Teams
- 2025-11-26T13:00:00+01:00
- 2025-11-27T17:30:00+01:00
- Working across cultures is both exciting and challenging. This interactive workshop helps you thrive in diverse teams by exploring cultural differences, sharpening communication, and turning conflicts into collaboration. Through exercises, role plays, and discussions, you’ll gain practical experience and leave with strategies for more effective and enjoyable teamwork. Organized by GGN and GGL.
Nov 26, 2025 01:00 to Nov 27, 2025 05:30 (Europe/Berlin / UTC100)
GGL Seminar Room (Room number 24), Leihgesterner Weg 52
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Course description
Aims:
This course is about understanding cultural differences and building the skills needed to collaborate effectively in diverse teams. Participants will explore how communication styles, trust, time, and decision-making vary across cultures and how these differences influence teamwork. The training is highly interactive and includes role plays, games, and practical tools that participants can apply directly in their academic and professional environments.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of the training, participants will be able to:
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Recognize key cultural dimensions that shape teamwork
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Apply interpersonal communication skills essential for multicultural collaboration
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Demonstrate patience, openness, and sensitivity to social cues in diverse contexts
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Use indirect language and relationship-building strategies to foster goodwill
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Develop approaches to prevent and resolve challenges in multicultural teams
Methodology:
Participants will actively engage with cultural models, practice socio-emotional skills, and reflect on real-life teamwork situations. Feedback and peer learning are an integral part of the workshop.
Your Trainer
Thomas Wagner is a communication specialist with more than 20 years of experience teaching managerial English and professional communication in higher education, where he developed courses on intercultural communication, rhetoric, and business ethics. Furthermore, he has more than 15 years experience conductiong corporate language and communication workshops. He has also designed and delivered corporate workshops for international companies such as Carl Zeiss, hessnatur, and Apollo Endosurgery, focusing on advanced rhetorical and intercultural communication skills.