Summer 2024: Two courses in presence in Tokyo, Japan

Intercultural Viability: Developing Intercultural Adaptability in Organizations

One-Day Seminar Description:

The adaptability of organizations cannot be found by averaging the competence of individual employees. This is because an organization and its employees are entwined in an underlying co-ontogenic relationship – a condition in which each creates the other in synergistic ways. Intercultural ViabilityÔ describes how co-ontogenic synergy fuels the collective capacity of an organization to adapt and thrive in rapidly changing social conditions – changes that inevitably involve greater interaction among diverse domestic and international cultures. This seminar offers an overview of how contributions and impediments to Intercultural Viability (IV) can be precisely identified in work contexts in terms of the well-established Development Model of Intercultural Sensitivity. Strategic directions for building IV through a combination of individual development and organizational support will be explored, with current examples relevant to course participants.

Key Themes:

1. Understanding the new quantum view of co-ontogenic organizations
2. Focusing on the co-ontogeny of talent and support to generate adaptive synergy
3. Guiding organizational evolution toward future viability in new social contexts

Appropriate participants:

 Executives and HR professionals responsible for strategic change management, and advanced intercultural trainers/consultants/educators.

Holographic Facilitation of Intercultural Viability in Organizations

Description:

The ability of an organization to adapt to rapidly changing social conditions is not the natural condition of any organizational culture, nor is it a capacity that exists alone in either employee talent or organizational policy. Instead, Intercultural Viability (IV) is a coherent relational condition in organizations that needs to be constantly facilitated with special constructivist techniques. This seminar will provide an overview of how holographic intercultural facilitation can be used to generate and support IV in different kinds and different levels of organizations. Specifically, the seminar will explain 1) the critical mass approach to organization change management; 2) the power of coherent nexus groups to support change; the use of passive volition to generate supportive conditions for IV, and 3) the employment of self-fulfilling expectation to guide IV development. Examples of these techniques in corporate, educational, and NGOs will be provided.

Key Themes:

1. Relational organizations depend on facilitative leadership.
2. Intercultural Viability can be suffused throughout organizations with holographic facilitation
3. The key sustainable change is

Appropriate participants:

Strategic leaders, tactical managers, and change management consultants whose jobs involve generating and sustaining collective adaptation to social change in organizations.