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International Leadership – Leading People. Understanding Cultures. Shaping Responsibility.

Leadership often only becomes truly exciting internationally when people think, communicate and understand responsibility differently. That is exactly where the International Leadership Training comes in: less perfect leadership theory – and more real leadership reality between cultures, expectations and collaboration.

HBS International Leadership Training
0.5–2 Days
Duration
8–20
Participants
DE/EN
Languages Available
Curiosity
Prerequisites
How It Works

Understanding leadership. Developing people. Shaping international collaboration.

International leadership rarely works according to a simple recipe. What is perceived as clear leadership in one country may seem controlling in another. What means openness to some, others experience as insecurity. That is precisely why the International Leadership Training combines modern leadership concepts with real international collaboration and personal self-reflection.

The focus is not only on the question of how to lead others – but also on how to lead yourself. Because leadership often begins exactly where pressure, uncertainty or conflict arise. How do I react in difficult situations? How do I communicate expectations? Why do misunderstandings arise even though everyone is actually pursuing the same goal? And what happens when different cultural backgrounds are suddenly supposed to work together in the same team?

Participants work with practical situations from their everyday leadership and reflect on their own impact as a leader. Impulses from communication, transactional analysis, team dynamics and systemic reflection help to make leadership behaviour understandable, tangible and directly applicable. Topics such as self-leadership, psychological safety, trust, feedback, conflicts or different understandings of leadership are not worked through theoretically, but actively experienced and discussed.

Particularly important is the connection between international collaboration and the German understanding of leadership. Participants experience which expectations, communication styles and forms of responsibility often play an important role in German organizations – and how these can be combined with other cultural perspectives.

The seminar is deliberately structured flexibly. Groups from India, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Chile or other countries often bring very different experiences, expectations and images of leadership. That is precisely why the most exciting learning moments often arise in shared exchange – where different perspectives become visible and new viewpoints emerge.

International Leadership thus becomes less of a classical leadership seminar – and more of an interactive development space for modern leadership, international collaboration and genuine reflection on people, responsibility and impact.

Leadership. Culture. Collaboration on equal terms.

Learning Objectives

What Participants Take Away

International Leadership combines modern leadership, self-reflection and international collaboration. Participants learn not only to understand leadership methodically – but to guide people in different cultural contexts more consciously, clearly and effectively.

Reflect more consciously on your own impact as a leader
Better understand different leadership and communication styles
Strengthen trust, feedback and collaboration in international teams
Deal more confidently with conflicts, uncertainty and differing expectations
Better classify the German understanding of leadership and international perspectives
Understand leadership as a connection of self-leadership, communication and relationship
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

For international specialists and managers who guide people, teams or projects in an international environment – especially in the context of German companies, organizations or international cooperations.

Clearly about real leadership practice. Models help with understanding – but the focus is on real situations, international collaboration, communication and your own impact as a leader.

A big one. Different ideas of responsibility, feedback, hierarchy or collaboration are actively reflected on and discussed. It is precisely from this that the most exciting learning moments often arise.

No. The seminar works both for new leaders and for experienced managers. What matters is less the position – but the willingness to consciously reflect on and further develop leadership.

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