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SEPTEMBER PROGRAM

Friday, September 27, 2002 7:00-9:00 p.m.

PROGRAM:
Intercultural Training: Towards a New Framework

PRESENTER:
Jimmy Niblock
Professor of Cross-Cultural Management, McGill MBA, Tokyo; Intercultural Trainer and Consultant

PLACE:
Reitaku University Tokyo Kenkyu Center (Shinjuku i-Land Tower 4th Floor)

LANGUAGE:
English

FEE:
member 1,000 yen \ non-member 2,000yen membership

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
This presentation proposes that a new intercultural training approach is needed to deal with the challenges posed by the increasing complexity of the business environment. The prevailing intercultural training approach is overly cognitive, linear, and universalist and tends to support and promote only those training initiatives which confirm its central assumptions and beliefs. This presentation outlines an alternative intercultural training approach that stresses complexity, holism, resilience, and connection.

PRESENTER:
Jimmy Niblock is Professor of Cross-Cultural Management in the McGill MBA program, Tokyo. He also works as an intercultural trainer for JAL Academy and the Trompenaars Hampden-Turner Group and as a consultant for Gruppe Fischer Gaertner (German) regarding executive coaching, change management, and leadership transition.

 How to get there?:
i-Land Tower can be accessed directly from Nishi-Shinjuku Station on the Marunouchi Line by following the underground path. From JR Shinjuku Station it is approximately a 10 minute walk. Once you get to the building, select an elevator that stops on the 4th floor. After you get off on the 4th floor, walk to the right until you get to the last door on your left.