4-6 minute Seminar Sample

The globalization of business, increased mobility of labor across geographic borders is leading to multiculturalism around the globe. Oganizations have to pay due attention to the management of a diverse workforce and development of multicultural teams. This implies equipping employees with basic skills pertaining to cross-cultural awareness and competence to deal with cultural issues.

Leaders also have to motivate and develop people from different cultural backgrounds, experiences, and working styles to collaborate effectively across time zones. This is becoming a common phenomenon across several organizations. Psychological type as a tool has been proven to help leaders and team members better understand some basic differences and similarities amongst each other; by understanding each other’s type preference, we can begin a dialog to bridge cultural differences and to avoid making wrong assumptions about each other.

Research suggests that many global teams falter and most experience a great deal of conflict and miscommunication. This program focuses on understanding what it takes for leaders of different psychological type preferences to be effective when managing global teams. You will gain valuable insight into the challenges and opportunities presented by designing and managing cross-cultural teams. You will also assess your own leadership competence across critical cross-cultural management situations.

Presented by Daniel Liew

Daniel is President of Direct Results Asia Pacific Consultancy and CEO of 16typesAsia™, the marketplace for Type Practitioners in Asia and a distributor and certifying body for assessment tools for use with psychological type. With a background in psychology and human resource development from Hawaii Pacific University, Daniel began his speaking and training career in 1995. Since then he has trained and presented in the U.S., Cambodia, Japan, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, India, Philippines, Hong Kong, China and Malaysia.

Having qualification in assessments including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®), Firo Element B, BarOn EQi, Campbell Leadership Descriptor and Knowdell Career Assessments, he has remained a loyal student and researcher of Carl Jung’s psychological type theory for the last 16 years, and has applied it well with his work with some notable Fortune 500 clients.

Daniel is recognized as Asia’s leading expert on psychological type and recently he has been invited to be the keynote speaker of the 2009 International Association of Psychological Type Conference in Dallas Texas. He will be the first non-American to be given that privilege. He has also trained extensively on the psychology of selling for the insurance, direct selling, retail and property industries. His experience includes both on skills training, managing the sales force and developing the administration system of sales organizations.

He currently resides in Kuala Lumpur with a Japanese wife and a 6 year old son.