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Leadership in Multinational, Cross-Cultural Teams

Whether you are currently a manager or not, you should now be ready to learn to play a leadership role in a multinational team. Leadership is more than management, and culture greatly affects what is expected of leaders. For instance, some cultures expect their leaders to give directives; others expect them to facilitate so that everyone on the team has a chance for their voice to be heard. No matter which way they lean, you are likely to hear “that’s just the way it’s done” if you try to shake things up. Leadership requires adapting your style to build comfort from team members with different backgrounds than yours while also helping change the narrative for people who don’t want to adapt to your strengths. You need to help others find the levers to pull that work for them to adjust to a cross-cultural environment. As leaders you also need to be constantly learning to prepare for the inevitable changes of the future? By looking into the future, how will different cultures grow, and how will climate change and technology fundamentally alter the line between physical and virtual space. What will all this mean for multinational team leadership in the future?

Status: Decision Making

Status: Cultural Sensitivity

IntermediateCourse12 hours

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Esther

5.0

Reviewed Jul 18, 2023

Really enjoyed this course! It fit my needs as a member of a 'multinational cross-cultural' team in an international organization. I also liked that one of the courses was on virtual teams. Good videos. Each of the modules had a series of videos, discussion questions (sometimes with additional readings that were to the point but not very difficult), and ended with a quiz. When teaching I'd say, maybe replace some of the discussion questions by other assignments as I saw myself skipping many of the questions without impact on my grade but probably with impact on my learning, but as a student it was nice to be able to just reflect on a question without needing to share it with the world which would include privacy issues etc.

Thanks for a great course!

Paula

5.0

Reviewed Dec 19, 2022

Wonderful! More than recommended!

Mahendra

5.0

Reviewed Jun 16, 2023

Great Course in Leadership

Shankar

5.0

Reviewed Jul 19, 2026

Excellent

Mazzucchelli

4.0

Reviewed Jun 30, 2022

Amazing and interesting.

Few sections chould have been expanded a bit, as for example, how to implement leadership characteristics. One thing is to define them (and it was done) and a second is to show how people have shown or exercised them. Understand it's not easy, but it would help young manager to follow their own model.

Aniketh

4.0

Reviewed Jan 29, 2023

Very informative course

Anica

3.0

Reviewed Sep 21, 2024

I am disappointed with the third and fourth courses. The beginning was promising, and I really enjoyed the first two, but I find the quizzes and assessments to be poorly constructed in the last two courses of this specialization. In the assessments, the scenarios often have multiple valid answers, leading to confusion since the same options can apply to different questions. The quiz questions also seem unclear, and there’s a lack of explanations for the answers provided. Additionally, the videos don’t clarify these points well enough. Overall, it feels like the quality has declined a lot as you move on, and cannot wait to finish two more modules.

Nikos

3.0

Reviewed Feb 6, 2025

The course wasn't bad. It could be way more engaging though. The professors were a bit boring, which is kind of funny cause they consider themselves communication experts. I don't think it's worth 40+ hours though.