Sessions
Concurrent Session
Cultural Competency: A Critical Leadership Skill for Success in the 21st Century
Yerba Buena Ballroom 1-3
Tuesday 10/29/2013 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
1.25 HR Credit
| Competencies: Relationship Management, Leadership & Navigation, Global & Cultural Effectiveness
| Intended Audience: Mid-Level
Workplace Application:
This session will help you improve your cultural competency skills with a framework to increase the level of cultural competency in your organization, and be an effective leader in today's global business reality.
Thirteen skills for culturally competent communication, and a four-element model for building diverse high-performing teams, help you create an inclusive organizational culture through cultural competency. You will learn how to:
• Develop the skills to become a more inclusive leader.
• Increase your ability to help others identify their personal biases and assumptions, which create barriers to inclusion, fairness, and higher performance.
• Be empowered with language, a set of mental models, and cultural competency skills, to engage in a healthy dialogue leveraging diversity of thought and backgrounds, to foster innovation.
