Collaboration & Interpersonal Skills (E)

Advanced

The participants:
• actively shape the formation of well-functioning student teams and take responsibility for shared tasks.
• apply basic communication and feedback techniques in order to interact with one another respectfully and in a solution-oriented way.
• recognize and reflect on group processes, roles, and dynamics in newly formed teams.
• develop and test, in semester-long academic settings, strategies for constructive conflict resolution and for dealing with different personality and working styles within their student cohort and their professional environment.
• foster a positive team culture that supports learning through cooperative behavior, openness, and empathy.
• analyze, as part of everyday study life, individual and organizational factors influencing students' work-life balance and derive situation-specific measures for regulating their own workload that can be integrated into the course of the semester and into a professional career.
• assess gender-related inequalities in work and learning contexts and develop measures to promote non-discriminatory, gender-inclusive collaboration.
• expand their learning competence through the deliberate application of suitable learning strategies and through the reflective handling of feedback and performance requirements.
• develop a lasting understanding of lifelong learning and recognize the importance of continuous skills development in professional and organizational contexts.

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- Fundamentals of intercultural communication
- Communication styles, value orientations, and dealing with misunderstandings
- Team roles and decision-making processes in culturally diverse groups
- Intercultural conflict patterns and resolution strategies
- Building trust, empathy, and perspective-taking in international contexts
- Diversity, inclusion, and the ethical dimensions of collaboration
- Reflecting on one's own cultural background and communication preferences
- Models and methods for analyzing stress and resources (work-life balance)
- Mechanisms of gender roles, bias, and structural disadvantage, along with practical approaches to gender-inclusive design of work and learning environments
- Practical exercises for team building and collaboration in international settings
- Learning strategies and methods of self-directed learning, plus techniques for acquiring and retaining knowledge effectively
- The importance and concepts of lifelong learning in a professional context, including strategies for continuous skills development and reflective handling of feedback

- Bender, F. (2022). A Roadmap to Intercultural Proficiency: Navigating Through Cultural Diversity and Inclusion. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04899-9
- Moussa, M., Doumani, T., McMurray, A., Muenjohn, N., & Deng, L. (2022). Cross-Cultural Performance Management: Transcending Theory to a Practical Framework. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91268-0
- Schauer, G. A. (2024). Intercultural Competence and Pragmatics. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44472-2
- Stolz, I., & Oldenziel Scherrer, S. (Eds). (2022). International Leadership: Effecting Success Across Borders in a Boundaryless World. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-37306-1

Portfolio assessment

English

6

Lectures, exercises, presentations

1