Intercultural Training  Gender mainstreaming  Argumentation Training 

Intercultural training
The main emphasis of this training focuses on creating learning environments that strengthen and sensitize our consciousness. Those learning environments will enable the students (sometimes for the first time) to notice cultural imprints and use them in an economic context to widen their individual possibilities in terms of „diversity".
Our training concept and actual work concentrate on dealing with the differences in „cultural awareness" of people.
The understanding of the semiotics of a culture provides the theoretic basis of our training concept. It emphasizes the interaction of people from one or several organisations (within one or more cultural contexts).
In addition to the theoretic input about „Cultural Differences" our work focuses on people's different experiences and e.g. their media influenced preconceptions. Simultaneously we target implicit personal experiences which are often difficult to verbalize and therefore can prevent a successful intercultural conflict management.
Existing prejudices are addressed by strengthening intercultural managment competences and removed in a manner which is comprehensible for our clients.
(suits the Austrian Employment Agency Vienna's criteria for trainers)

Main goals of our training:
  • Teaching of skills that help to build and stabilize relationships between collaborating external and internal people with different cultural inprints within organisations; because only a successful interaction between people – regardless if they are manager, owner, co-worker or client - leads to lasting economic success.
  • The training supports a constructive and diverse preparation for future transnational and intercultural work and optimizes existing knowledge.
METHODS:
  • Role play
  • Individual and group work
  • Group discussions
  • Well-balanced mix of theoretical inputs and methods from self-awareness training
  • Work with the media
  • All trainings end with an evaluation of contents, presentation and materials by the participants.

MODERATION:
Doris Lang-Lepschy

SEMINAR DATES:
  • On appointment
  • Two training days, eight hours each
  • Two days, eight hours each, trainer: Susanne Steinbach MSc
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Intercultural Training  Gender mainstreaming  Argumentation Training 

Gender mainstreaming
as a political strategy is connected to practical use. Topics in the course are gender-sensitive design of the media as well as didactics and design of learning materials. And what do Bob, the Builder, and Wendy have to do with that? (suits the Austrian Employment Agency Vienna's criteria for trainers)

METHODS:
  • Individual and group work
  • Well-balanced mix of theoretical inputs and methods from self-awareness training
  • Group discussions
  • Role play
  • Work with the media
  • All trainings end with an evaluation of contents, presentation and materials by the participants.

MODERATION:
Doris Lang-Lepschy

SEMINAR DATES:
  • On appointment
  • Two training days, eight hours each, are recommended
  • One trainer , 8 to 20 participants
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Intercultural Training  Gender mainstreaming  Argumentation Training 

Argumentation Training
The ability to talk and self-assurance are practiced, encouraged and improved effectively. The argumentation training offers a place to practice eloquence and considerable improves the communicative competence in job and private life. The participants work on the stableness of their arguments and get an insight into the psychology of political talks and daily life debates. The training wants to encourage people to intervene and to express effective disagreement and convincing counter-positions against public and private paroles.
The training enables participants to hold the personal view against resistance and to argue effectively. There is the opportunity to talk about their own experiences with provocative comments, to discuss often heard political patterns for explanations and to reflect on their plausibility and ideological contents.

METHODS:
  • Role play
  • Individual and group work
  • Group discussions
  • Well-balanced mix of theoretical inputs and methods from self-awareness training
  • Work with the media
  • All trainings end with an evaluation of contents, presentation and materials by the participants.

MODERATION:
Doris Lang-Lepschy

SEMINAR DATES:
  • On appointment
  • Two training days, eight hours each
  • Two days, eight hours each, two trainers: by arrangement
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