Project Management: International Projects

Learn techniques for improving collaboration and communication in settings where team players are separated by culture, language, and distance.

Introduction

• Improve your global project results

1. Collaboration

• Assessing collaboration
• We do as the leader does
• Building skills for collaboration

2. True Communication

• Avoiding the illusion
• Effective supplier communication steps
• Effective customer communication steps
• New obstacles to clarity

3. Distance

• Addressing physical separation
• Improving affiliation
• Considering time zones

4. Culture

• Social programming and values
• High vs. low context
• Power distance
• Monochronic vs. polychronic

5. Language

• Common language
• Emails and texts
• Translations
• Drawings and specifications

Conclusion

• Next steps