Cultural Awareness for Global Business

"Given we live in a highly globalized business world, encountering people from cultures other than our own is a given.  How we detect, understand and cope with cultural differences, particularly in the business and professional world, is the focus of this course. Professionals and leaders who exhibit high CQ (Cultural Intelligence) will better be able to navigate through cultural barriers (and there are many of them) to achieve long term success in multicultural business and social environments." - Bhaskar Pant, Executive Director of MIT Professional Education and Lead instructor, Cultural Awareness for Global Business.

We live in a global and multicultural environment where we interact with professionals from diverse cultures, thus the need to adapt both within and outside of your organization in cultural terms.

In this context, cultural awareness and intercultural skills are critical for individual and organizational success; they contribute toward the creation of "global leadership skills" – important for an entire company or organization.

To guide you towards success in the multicultural world we live in, MIT Professional Education is offering the Cultural Awareness for Global Business learning program. This program will equip you with the necessary tools to improve your business, your professional work, and your communication across cultures – in both in-person and virtual forms. You will be trained to solve problems and minimize conflicts within the “global village”, with the goal of taking advantage of cultural diversity to make you and your organization more globally competitive.

Cultural Awareness for Global Business, with curriculum developed and taught by MIT faculty, is delivered in collaboration with Global Alumni. Contact Global Alumni for more information about this program:

• professionalprograms@mit.edu or
• call: +1 (315) 602 3089

Global Alumni is an ed-tech company that collaborates with institutions to manage enrollments (including all payment services and invoicing), technology, and participant support. 
 

This online course is designed to develop participants’ skills of cultural awareness, focusing on intercultural communication and cultural diversity in a business environment. Throughout this course, participants will be able to: 

• Learn about the concept of culture and its relationship to language and communication. 
• See why and how the cultures in our professional environments differ from each other. 
• Discover how and why cultural differences impact the global economy. 
• Find out how to successfully conduct business in a multicultural setting. 
• Learn to avoid common communication problems that are caused by culturally-shaped differences in expected etiquette and non-verbal communication practices.  

Cultural Awareness in Global Business is a multidisciplinary online program that is relevant across industries and sectors, as well as to professionals in a wide variety of positions and in companies of many sizes. A wide range of professionals may benefit from this program, including: 

Any professional looking to develop their abilities to perform satisfactorily in cross-cultural environments, especially international business environments.