Intercultural Trainer Training

Developing intercultural training skills - course outline

Day 1 – An introduction to the cross-cultural field

· Introduction and objectives

· Intercultural simulation

· Perceptions of other cultures

· What is culture?

· Cultural values

Day 2 – Culture and communication

· Key cultural models, frameworks and dimensions

· Culture and communication – verbal and non-verbal

· Impact of culture on social interaction, meetings, presentations, negotiations, written communication, telephoning

Day 3 – Types of intercultural training and training activities

· What do we mean by intercultural training?

· Types of intercultural training

· Designing a country specific training session for relocation

· Activities and materials for intercultural training

· Micro-teaching tasks

Day 4 – Designing intercultural training programmes

· Tailoring training design to differing learning styles across cultures

· Delivering an intercultural seminar – facilitation vs training

· Designing intercultural training courses

· Course design workshop task

Day 5 – Training delivery and evaluation

· Using role plays and simulations – group simulation

· Assessing intercultural competence - methods and tools

· Evaluating intercultural training - measuring the success of training

· Sources for further reading and professional development

· Course review and personal action points

Designing and delivering intercultural training - course outline

Pre-course tasks

· To design a course outline for a one or two day course

· To select or develop one training activity for the course

Day 1 - Course design

· Revisiting the key cultural issues

· Key elements of successful course design - examples and models

· Review and critique of course design tasks with facilitator and peer feedback

· Revision of course design tasks

Day 2 - Selecting and developing materials

· Sources and types of materials and activities

· Working with realia and other “authentic” materials

· Creating your own activities and materials

· Adjusting training activities to different learning styles

· Review and critique of activities from pre-course task

· Practical tasks to try out different kinds of activities

Day 3 - Delivering intercultural training

· Training, facilitation and coaching – what works and why

· Cognitive, experiential and emotional aspects of learning

· Course participants as key intercultural learning resources

· Establishing credibility as an intercultural trainer

· Ensuring participants leave the training with practical “take aways”

· Practical tasks to deliver different stages of intercultural courses

Day 4 - Course design workshop (optional)

An opportunity to focus in more depth on the following areas:

· Developing detailed course plans, outlines and “lesson plans” – building on the work of Day 1,

or working on different course plans

· Writing and presenting proposals for intercultural training courses

Day 5 - Materials and activities workshop (optional)

· A chance to develop more course materials and activities, either individually or in sub-groups,

under the guidance of LTS facilitators

· Trying out and using materials and activities in micro-teaching sessions