To succeed in today's global business environment, HR professionals working in multinational organizations must have the ability to seamlessly lead talent around the world. How to identify the varying cultural drivers that impact behaviors and communications in the workplace will be examined first, followed by the differences in cultural business norms and talent management best practices around the world. Focus will be placed on the following talent management concepts: predicting and managing culture-based workplace conflicts, cultural variances in leadership expectations and behaviors, designing global talent development programs, finding a balance between global and local in HR practices, and creating global competency models and skill maps. You will leave with the ability to: 

• Understand the core principals of cultural dimensions and apply them to both the world's 12 culture clusters and your organization's global footprint.
• Compare and contrast the cultural variances in expectations of leadership around the world.
• Apply a core approach to designing and implementing talent development and training programs that balance a centralized global curriculum with custom local learning norms.
• Explore best practices and common pitfalls when designing global competency models and skill maps.
• Identify the strategic challenges and cultural biases inherent to many global succession planning processes.