Teaching Global Leadership:Best Practices and Cutting Edge Topics

Organizations expanding internationally are increasingly reliant on employees who can adeptly manage the complexities of operating across cultural and institutional boundaries. To excel in these multifaceted environments, a premium is placed on global leadership skills, which extend to cutting-edge areas such as sustainability, navigating complexity and uncertainties, critical thinking, diversity, and contextualizing communication skills. Yet, despite the recognition of their significance, the scarcity of skilled global leaders remains a concern, with few business schools offering comprehensive training in these evolving competencies. Addressing this gap, this Professional Development Workshop (PDW) – returning to the Academy of Management (AOM) based on high demand in previous years – offers new insights into avant-garde teaching methodologies from experts who have developed global leadership courses and programs. This interactive PDW is designed to provide participants with several benefits, including: 1) a summary of best practices for developing global leaders, 2) round-table discussions (with handouts) of teaching tools, strategies, and exercises including the frameworks of teaching sustainability and social impact, navigating paradoxes and uncertainty, design thinking and dialectical thinking, diversity, peer-to-peer coaching, and nonverbal communication that can be used in developing class sessions, modules, or courses on global leadership, and 3) a forum for participants to discuss their own ideas and concerns related to applying best practices in their own settings. Attendees will depart with actionable knowledge on state-of-the-art practices and a repertoire of instructional techniques to effectively teach global leadership and related topics (e.g. cross-cultural management, diversity).