Dr. Gerald Renger shares methods and tools along with invaluable experiences and real cases from decades of living and working in different worlds building strong and lasting partnerships with culturally very diverse people in work teams and in private life.

Who is it for?

This course is great help for you if you are

• a leader of a team organization with culturally diverse members, customers, suppliers, cooperation partners
  
• a member in a culturally diverse team / organization / project
  
• Interested in better understanding the culturally diverse people in your work or private environment
  
• or if you want to prepare yourself for working in / with diverse cultures

While this is self-paced learning, the course will be particularly beneficial for you if you find yourself a learning buddy / small peer group to do the exercises and reflections together.

What to learn?

You want to use cultural diversity as a strength. Learn

• how to connect and build trust across cultures
• to build an inclusive high performing team
  
• how to avoid stereotypes, defuse subconscious bias,
• tap into people’s motivation
  
• about your cultural personality profile (self-assessment) vs country cultures
  
• to train your CQ skills
• to read diverse cultures’ preferences and taken-for-granted assumptions
  
• to overcome strong emotions and tensions connected with diverse, even opposing values
  
• to ‘read the room’ - the different ways cultures communicate - by using a universally valid communication tool
  

Coach Credentials Gerald

"...Since 2017 WAGNER Group is nurturing an inspiring cooperation for global management development with Deloop Asia. Dr. Gerald Renger supports international WAGNER leaders and talents in multiple tailored webinars. I especially appreciate Gerald’s intercultural experiences that help us to deepen leadership topics with multiple perspectives. Facilitating contents in German and English Gerald can offer highest quality from a single source."
Mirna Loy, Director People Development & Culture, J. Wagner GmbH

"... is a combination of sharp to the point feedback style with a matured sensitivity to people's feeling and level of acceptance. A good consultant who carries the charming competence to keep coachees open in their minds which is the basis particularly with cross cultural differences." - Joy Zhou Yue, GM & Board Member VW Financial Services Beijing, China

“ ... a highly individual training style that is tailored specifically to the needs of the different managers which is brilliant support.” - Kerstin Gessler, GM at Rolls Royce Ltd, Germany

"…a unique professional, who understands and appreciates both Western and Asian cultures, connects people from different backgrounds smoothly and helps them work together to achieve the company’s targets" - Weiming Zhang, Head of R&D and Sales, Heraeus US/China

"... a humoristic easygoing coach with an accurate and deep understanding of each trainees personal needs" - Simon Noome, Head of Customer Service, Liebherr Component Technologies AG, Straßbourg, France

 “… one of the most influential and inspiring people I’ve met. His leadership coaching style is unique and precious. A powerful coach and trainer for executives in strategy and change.” - Marc Tran, GM Asia Sales at Woodward, China

"I’m happy to know Gerald as co-designer and co-facilitator of the General Manager-Program 'Corporate Entrepreneurship in China', a great coaching and learning journey I joined in 2019/20. Laurenz and Gerald, the coaches, give you great ideas and guidance how to improve yourself and your organization. You also get real business life insights from other leaders facing similar challenges. Since it is spread over one year the program provides ample opportunities for practical application of tools and approaches and progress review with coaches and peers. I can only highly recommend this program. It has helped me and my company a lot when it came to successfully navigating through the COVID-19 crisis." - Andreas Hornfischer, General Manager, E.G.O. Components, Taicang, China

"... is a unique Executive Coach with extremely extensive experience as a coach and trainer in Germany, the USA and Asia. I have worked with him very successfully and often and can highly recommend his program." - Georg Remmers, Global Head of People & Organizational Development, Heraeus

 “... triggers un-dogmatic thinking which is especially helpful with senior management.‘ - Andreas Liebheit, President and Head of global BU Chemicals, Precious Metal Pastes, Frankfurt, Germany

"I’ve always enjoyed working with Gerald because of his rich experience in Change Management both theoretical & practical, his openness for learning & adapting to customer needs, and his kind personality to connect with participants. A great and stable performance in years of cooperation." – Alex Ying Xie Volkswagen Group China HR, Academy Beijing, China

“Great to see you continue the excellent coaching and team development we have come to experience with you!” - Pete Horan, Senior VP Global Operations at Heraeus and at Bucknell University Singapore 

Participant voices:

• Thanks Gerald. Really fun and good opportunity to learn about different cultures
• well done, structured and interesting, well presented and very good to listen to
  
• the introduction exercise - the multi-layered cultural personality is really very good
  
• no right or wrong cultures, just different
  
• listening without telling: My BIG take away
  
• silence and its many meanings in Asia
  
• the course is really useful. Often we don’t take out enough time to observe and listen but instead just doing things my own way
  
• I liked the communication model
• new and different way of looking at communication and personality