Intercultural project management

Understanding the foreign is key

…so that intercultural project management can be effective and successful. Misunderstandings, conflicts in the intercultural project that bring the project to a standstill can be clarified or do not arise at all. Intercultural projects are often unsuccessful or stagnate. The intercultural projects carried out do often not achieve the desired result. The economic damage is in the billions. The goal of the project is clear to everyone. How the goal is best achieved is often evaluated differently by the project team. Different cultural backgrounds, personalities, working styles, behavior and communication patterns are challenging for everyone involved in intercultural project management.

Work in an intercultural project,

that’s stuck because there are misunderstandings in the cooperation of your top-class, international team that are not so easy to solve – the agreed times cannot be met?

Your benefit

  • Security and maximum flexibility in international relations
  • Leading and managing in international projects
  • Global project communication
  • Lead diversity
  • Saving of time
  • Cost savings
  • Efficient and smooth working relationships
  • bring projects to a successful conclusion

Experienced and there for you!

I offer you special skills for your intercultural project management

My expertise is based on many years of experience – and scientifically sound knowledge as well as on constant cooperation with company.

I conduct intercultural field research, with stays of several months in numerous countries of different cultures, worldwide so far in 17 different countries on five continents. This  means an intensive examination of the respective cultural standards, business principles and forms of communication. This has resulted in a deep understanding of intercultural encounters and cooperation. This enables me to gain new experiences in other cultures.

As a graduate psychologist, I have been able to gain extensive experience in companies and organizations in more than 20 years. The size of the companies ranges from large industrial companies to medium-sized companies and non-profit companies providing advice.
As a psychologist, with experience as a university lecturer, manager, trainer, mediator and coach, and with many years of experience in intercultural project management, I can offer you special skills for this.
My intercultural project management is based on research results from psychology, intercultural psychology and research.

I support you professionally

  • A first expert discussion with me regarding successful intercultural project management is free of charge for you!
  • Request my free guide that can support you in cross-cultural project man-agement:

In “Fit for the World” you will find some background information and cultural standards for selected cultures.

Get your individual offer

    I bid you for Her Intercultural project management and team development

    …special independent tools: workshop, coaching, moderation and mediation

    • Cultural awareness with information about the country, explanation of values and the associated behavior

    • Orientation workshops for national sub-groups with cultural awareness training to make people aware of their own cultural standards and the cultural differences to be expected in the intercultural project

    • Interaction training in culturally mixed groups

    • Your advice as a team leader

    • Coaching on the job : consideration of your intercultural teams and advice on and your project management

    • Facilitation of process balances of your intercultural team

    • Mediation to resolve conflicts in your intercultural project team

    • Moderation of team development workshops
      e.g. B. at milestones of intercultural project work or to balance the ongoing cooperation and group dynamics as well as to develop new forms of cooperation and interaction from the perceived, culturally specific, styles in the sense of productive complementarity

    • Facilitating the final exam of your intercultural project team
      for a comprehensive reflection of the cooperation, the Securing the process results as well to develop recommendations for subsequent intercultural project teams

    Intercultural project management

    With increasing networking of work processes and the equally increasing need to develop holistic solutions for complex problems, multinational companies often establish intercultural projects.
    Intercultural project management has gained in importance in a wide variety of production and service areas in recent decades.
    The term “intercultural project management” contains two aspects: “Project management” means the problem-solving, cross-departmental and cross-organizational and time-limited form of teamwork.
    “Intercultural” means that people from different cultures meet in intercultural project management.

    Working behavior in intercultural project management is shaped differently by culture. This concerns, for example, dealing with time, agreements and the perception of hierarchy and personal responsibility. This is a challenge in international project teams and sometimes pushes project leaders, managers and employees to their limits. As a result, the project goal often moves into the distance and the intercultural project management resigns. It is necessary to see and coordinate these different working styles and communication behavior in meetings.

    Even teams whose members come into a project from the same culture with collective socialization experiences and therefore with approximately the same convictions, expectations, perception patterns and working methods need time to agree on a common working method and dealing with each other. Because here, too, different ideas must be brought to a consensus in order to achieve the project goal. This applies all the more to intercultural teams in intercultural project management.

    Intercultural project management faces special challenges and opportunities. In intercultural project teams, there is less consensus regarding the understanding of working methods than in monoculture ones Teams. Important values such as harmony, criticism and conflict determine the work processes differently and are often judged differently depending on the specific culture.

    Intercultural project management also offers many opportunities. If the order is clearly formulated, it serves as a common focus. Since the project limits the collaboration in time, the team members have a space to try out new actions. In addition, intercultural project management can, to a certain extent, design the project independently of the rules of the line organization. Intercultural project management thus has the opportunity to develop and try out other forms of cooperation and communication. Experts from different nations come together in an intercultural project in order to contribute their specific skills and pool their expertise.

    Since many factors influence the success of intercultural project management, there are no simple answers to such a complex topic.