DIVERSITY TRACK SEMINARS

Friday 9:00am-12:00pm Mastering the Challenge of Seeing the Invisible in Multicultural Situations
9:00am-12:00pm Diversity Interactive Theatre
Saturday 8:00am-5:00pm The Project Management Process: Applying A Cross-Cultural Perspective
8:00am-12:00pm or 1:00pm-5:00pm Leading A Diverse Team
8:00am-12:00pm Doing Business Internationally
1:00pm-5:00pm Introduction to International Negotiation


For convention information, contact the Houston Convention Team.

MASTERING THE CHALLENGE OF SEEING THE INVISIBLE IN MULTICULTURAL SITUATIONS
Enaid Savage
$25 • class size: 50
Friday, 9:00am–12:00noon

This session is designed to improve understanding and effectiveness during communications when race, ethnicity and culture are factors. These factors are often a major part of our communications that we do not recognize. Techniques will be provided to understand, within a business context, how to impact interactions across cultures and between racial and ethnic groups.

Enaid Savage, with Savage West, is an intercultural consultant based in Austin, Texas. She consults with Fortune 100 companies on issues pertaining to the development and performance of the diverse work force. Ms. Savage worked with the Society of Women Engineers to develop our Diversity Plan and has presented at three National SWE Conventions.

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DIVERSITY INTERACTIVE THEATRE
Amoco Corporate Diversity Group/LaSalle Street Management Theatre
$30 • class size: 200
Friday, 9:00am–12:00noon

This introductory diversity program uses live theatre, skilled facilitation, discussion and reflection to heighten awareness of diversity issues. These issues, though frequently camouflaged, permeate every organization at every level. This thought-provoking, eye-opening and entertaining presentation consisting of five vignettes gives the audience a shared experience to draw on during discussion and explores how the scene they just witnessed could have played out differently.

The LaSalle Street Management Theater developed this program based on extensive conversations with Amoco employees in all sectors and refined the workshop through presentations at many locations. An Amoco Corporate Diversity Group representative will facilitate the program.

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THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROCESS: APPLYING A CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
Cornelius Grove
$75 • class size: 50
Saturday, 8:00am–5:00pm

This workshop focus on the broad mosaic of cross-cultural factors that can impact the forward progress of a business project abroad or in any location where stakeholders are culturally different. The workshop will explore U.S. cultural perspectives that clash with business perspectives abroad, how to anticipate possible effects of cultural factors, and skills for planning, launching, controlling and successfully completing any project in an unfamiliar cultural environment. The fee includes a working lunch for all participants.

Cornelius Grove, Cornelius Grove & Associates, holds a doctorate in intercultural communication from Columbia University and directed their Intercultural Program Center for the Study of Intercultural Learning for 11 years. He has lived and/or traveled extensively in Europe, Africa and China and is dedicated to enhancing people's ability to adapt to and thrive in unfamiliar cultures through research, program design, teaching and training, professional writing and consulting.

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LEADING A DIVERSE TEAM
B.J. Hately
$40 • class size: 100 each
Saturday, 8:00am–12:00noon or 1:00–5:00pm

Teamwork requires excellent interpersonal skills, and leading a diverse team demands a high level of leadership competency. This lively, interactive, enlightening presentation will enable participants to understand the unique dynamics of a diverse team, communicate and motivate in ways that bring out the best in each team member, leverage the talent and creativity of a diverse team, feel comfortable in a leadership position and maximize their own creativity and productivity in different team positions. The fee includes a copy of Ms. Hately's book, A Peacock in the Land of Penguins: A Tale of Diversity and Discovery.

B.J. Hately is the owner of Steps to Success Training and Development, a former Director of Training and Development for the Los Angeles Times and a former professor at the University of Southern California. Ms. Hately is the peacock in her book, which relates how diverse personalities can contribute to the success of an organization, if the organization's culture can accommodate change.

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DOING BUSINESS INTERNATIONALLY
Pamela Leri
$40 • class size: 75
Saturday, 8:00am–12:00noon

Doing Business Internationally addresses the strategies needed to work effectively and competitively in a global marketplace and helps participants experience and identify cultural differences, overcome cross-cultural communication barriers, explore key differences in targeted countries and adapt business skills to facilitate cross-border productivity and effectiveness. Doing Business Internationally is designed to be interactive, experiential and hands-on, providing a multifaceted set of tools to enable organizations to develop the global capacity they need to succeed.

Pamela Leri, Training Management Corporation (TMC), is a recognized leader in the field of global management and cross-cultural consulting and training and is currently assisting a variety of organizations, including many Fortune 500 international and multinational firms, in global human resource planning and training. Ms. Leri began her career in global business by working in an Osaka-based advertising agency where she planned, developed and wrote culturally-sensitive promotional materials and served as a liaison for Japanese corporations marketing products in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

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INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATION
Pamela Leri
$40 • class size: 75
Saturday, 1:00–5:00pm

In the current global marketplace, our standard approach to negotiation takes a new twist. This workshop is designed to review the key components of negotiation with an understanding of the global business environment and then help relate cultural orientations to the negotiation process. A comprehensive model of transcultural negotiation will also be presented.

Pamela Leri, Training Management Corporation. See above.

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