Communications CoP: Facing a Global Divide – Cultural Differences between Continents

Abstract:

Today, the world has become a global village.  With businesses transcending geographical boundaries, project managers must deal with a culturally diverse work force, to deliver business results. Travel between countries to deal with cultural challenges, is made even more difficult, due to a raging pandemic. As a result, understanding these cultural differences and adapting to them is even more important than ever before.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify key cultural differences between the East and West
• Acknowledge, appreciate, and learn to adapt to these cultural differences
• Learn a few communication and collaboration tools/techniques that you can use, in your day-to-day interactions, with a geographically diverse workforce

Speaker Profile:

Atul Peres-da-Silva is a certified Senior Project Management Professional (PMP, PMI-ACP, PgMP) with over 25 years of experience in leading technical and IT-oriented project teams.  Atul has extensive training and facilitation experience to complement his hands-on project leadership endeavors.  In addition to being a learning facilitator for many commercial and educational institution clients, Atul is a Senior Instructor for the North Carolina Project Management