SIIC 2008 Session

Developing Perceptual Flexibility

for Global Leadership

July 9-11, 3-Day Workshops

Differences in perceptual mindset can cause either deep mutual misunderstanding or enhanced creativity, depending on how they are approached. This session will show how perceptual gaps occur around concepts of future, past, actor, objects, language, etc. and how they become critical factors in the workplace and in personal relationships.

Designed for

Intercultural professionals who lead, facilitate and/or manage demanding multicultural interaction in any kind of organization. Researchers in intercultural communication and/or management would also benefit from this workshop.

Objectives

Participants will have the opportunity to:

• Become more clearly aware of their own perceptual mindsets and mental models

• Develop skills to identify other communicators’ perceptual mindsets and mental models for effective intercultural communication

• Improve facilitation skills through understanding critical conditions that transform perceptual incongruities and conflicts into creative interactions

• Develop conceptual flexibility and practical skills to reframe reality for reduced biases and new strategic ideas

• Become prepared to start practicing paradigm shifts in daily life at workplace or at home

• Become constantly aware of two separate, mutually contradictory but equally compelling approaches to a solution: analog and digital modalities

Learning Activities

• Psychometric tests to start exploring one’s own perceptual mindset

• Lectures and group discussions on action implications of different mindsets including future, past, analog, digital, subject and object

• Experiential exploration of the different styles of leading, facilitating, managing and inter-relating through use of modally different mindsets

• Simulations to experience paradigmatic shifts for creative purposes

• Experiential learning to reframe reality to create unbiased solutions

Faculty: Kichiro Hayashi
 

Dr. Kichiro Hayashi is a professor emeritus at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo. He has trained roughly 3000 corporate executives and other leaders from more than eighty countries in the past twenty years. He taught for a total of ten years at Indiana University, UCLA, the former Western Behavioral Sciences Institute of UC San Diego, and McMaster University. Kichom was a recipient of the 1995 Outstanding Senior Interculturalist Award for Achievement, president of SIETAR Japan, advisor for the Association of Corporate Executives, a U.N. consultant, and president of the Japan Society for Multicultural Relations. He has written ten books, including Maverick Power, Intercultural Interface Management, Nativizing Japanese Corporations, and The U.S.-Japanese Economic Relationship: Can It Be Improved? For many years he was a member of the Japan Laughing Association

Registration

Please download the registration form at http://www.intercultural.org/documents/siicreg.pdf , fill it out and email / mail / fax it to :

THE INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION INSTITUTE
8835 SW Canyon Lane, Suite 238, Portland, OR 97225 USA
Phone: (503) 297-4622 Fax: (503) 297-4695
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