Developing Cultural Awareness: An Intercultural Awareness Skills Workshop for Professional Services Staff

Where:  27/3057               When:  Weds 1 April, 9.30 am – 12.30 pm

Who:  Professional Services staff, maximum 20 participants (this workshop was previously run in August 2014)

Sign up:  by emailing intercultural@soton.ac.uk with ‘Professional Services workshop’ in the title line.  Deadline:  Friday 20 March

What:  This is an interactive workshop in which we’ll explore what makes some intercultural encounters more successful than others.  We’ll reflect on how expectations affect communication, including stereotyping and conventions such as punctuality and politeness.  Finally, we’ll learn some simple ways to adjust how we speak and write so that our communication is more effective.  Throughout the workshop you’ll be able to share your ideas, experience and examples of good practice with your colleagues.

This workshop has previously been run with staff from Student and Academic Administration with excellent feedback:

“Very good event to raise awareness and share ideas with staff from other areas of the uni”    “I think every member of staff should go to this session!”

Led by Jill Doubleday, Modern Languages and Alison Dickens, LLAS (Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies) as part of the Intercultural Connections Southampton project

http://blog.soton.ac.uk/ics/

Jill Doubleday has 15 years’ experience of teaching English to international students and is studying for a PhD in the field of internationalisation of higher education.

Alison Dickens currently directs the LLAS academic development programme and develops and delivers training in a number of areas including e-learning, language teaching and internationalisation.