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Intercultural and Leadership Training Sessions

TNT trains learners of all ages, educators, and organizations to develop their intercultural and leadership competencies. Trainings are a combination of experiential and didactic instruction to engage participants in their learning and development.

Training sessions are tailored to the specific needs of each client. They can vary in length from 45 minutes to week long trainings. A combination of trainings and services can be customized for your group or organization.

Intercultural Training

Leaders today are facing more complex intercultural challenges as organizations become increasingly diverse and global. Classrooms are more multicultural, and the diversity gap between teachers, administrators and their students has widened. Our intercultural programs emphasize self-awareness, innovation, effective communication, respect for diversity, understanding the impact of culture on organizations, and leading in a global context.

Program objectives include:

• New strategies for managing cultural differences
• Increased sensitivity to discrimination and racism
• Improved intercultural and communication skills

Training Sessions Include

Communicating Across Cultures

This training introduces participants to the basic concepts of intercultural communication, the ability to negotiate cultural meanings and communicate effectively across cultural boundaries. How can we use cultural diversity to create institutions and organizations that are thriving and not in conflict? This program offers an increased understanding of the impact of culture on communication and team building through simulation games, role playing and other interactive activities. Learn to develop stronger and more respectful relationships, teams, classrooms and organizations across cultural boundaries.

Understanding Difference: Increasing sensitivity

This training is designed to increase intercultural sensitivity. It includes experiential activities to explore values and mental models of culture, diversity and multiculturalism. It introduces strategies for advancing ones intercultural sensitivity and provides tools to more effectively communicate across cultures. Participants will be able to create more culturally accepting environments in their schools, organizations and communities to reduce tension and conflict with their peers.

Maximizing your International Experience

This training is designed for students and professionals who are living or studying abroad. The challenges and stresses that can arise in a new cultural context are often unexpected and overwhelming. This program offers an exploration into the range of experiences of being abroad and strategies for overcoming difficulties. Participants will gain the insight and tools needed to maximize their international experience.

The Global Classroom

The contemporary classroom presents new challenges for today’s educators as the number of international student’s is on the rise. Students bring their various linguistic needs and diverse cultural expectations to the classroom. How can educators adapt to multiple needs and challenges of these students? This program offers educators the opportunity to explore their own cultural lens and its impact on their instructional style. It offers techniques and strategies for more effectively teaching international students in face to face and online environments.

Why Intercultural Training? Read more about it.

• Diversity: In our international interest
• Preparing students and schools for a radically different future: ten trends will help determine education's role in the 21st century – Education

Leadership Training

More than ever before individuals in both small and large organizations are required to be leaders. In organizations traditional roles have changed requiring you to have multiple skills and abilities. Educators are being asked to prepare their students to be leaders in a new globalized world, both big business and non-profits struggle to maintain effective and consistent leadership in faster paced society. Our leadership trainings are designed to better prepare youth and adults to lead in the 21st century.

Program objectives include:

• Equipping individuals to be leaders who influence and inspire
• Create a deeper understanding of leadership theory and practice
• Empower young leaders to be agents of change in their school and community

Training Sessions Include:

Leading in the New Millennium
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves. Lao Tzu

Leaders in the 21st century are facing new and more complex challenges as organizations become more fluid and global. This session is grounded in the theory and practice of values-based and servant leadership. Participants explore their values and the impact they have on their leadership. This program empowers leaders to promote honesty and integrity within and with others, to listen and collaborate, enable others to grow and learn, and to share knowledge and information. Tactics include developing a shared vision, empowering others to lead, building effective teams, authentic communication and recognizing success.

Youth Leading Change
Whether at home or abroad, youth can make a difference! This workshop engages learners in the practice of service learning, defined as youth engaged in community service, civic engagement and social activism for the purpose of learning.  It is “real life” experience in service, project management and leadership. This workshop offers learners a road map to achieving successful and sustainable projects that impact their community while increasing their leadership competency. Participants can “be the change they want to see” and exercise the leadership necessary to make a positive change in the community.

Service Learning: Creating Leaders for Tomorrow
How can educators support their learners in civic engagement? Service learning puts into action what learners have gained from their experiences in and out of the classroom. Based upon the presenter’s research, this workshop presents a four-step approach to service learning to develop sustainable community-based projects. Best practices in intergenerational partnerships are also discussed as a guide for educators to effectively support learners in the planning and delivery of these projects. By supporting learners in service learning, educators provide the continuous skill building and leadership training necessary to live and work in a global environment.

These training sessions are available to secondary schools, colleges and universities, private and non-profit organizations and professional conferences. Contact Tamara Thorpe for details and availability.