Intercultural understanding is about more than diversity within your team; it’s about learning how our many different cultures influence how we work, communicate and engage, and how to create spaces where diverse teams feel empowered to contribute and thrive.

Presented by Auspire – Australia Day Council WA, Empowering Diverse Teams: Influences and Opportunities of Intercultural Collaboration, will explore the challenges and benefits of cultural diversity, how these can affect the success of a team, and what makes for a successful culturally diverse team.

Facilitated by intercultural consultant, Rika Asaoka, this interactive workshop will involve small group activities, exercises, research and discussion.

Finish the session with the confidence, practical tools and essential framework to effectively work with and support a culturally diverse team in which everyone feels empowered.

Topics include:
✔ Cultural tendencies and achieving alignment
✔ How culture influences and offers different perspectives
✔ The challenges in culturally diverse teams
✔ The impact of pro-diversity beliefs on team success
✔ The dynamics of a successful culturally diverse team
✔ How to support teams with low intercultural competence
✔ Intercultural strategies through neuroscience and cultural understanding

Workshop participants receive a certificate of participation upon completion.

Thanks to the support of Forrest Research Foundation, pricing is heavily subsidised. A tax invoice is provided for tax purposes.

Morning tea included. Dietary requirements can only be guaranteed for bookings made by 14 May.

Please be advised this session may include photography.

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About the facilitator

Rika Asaoka

Rika is an intercultural diversity consultant and facilitator who delivers interactive workshops, training, consultancy, facilitation and coaching on intercultural diversity management.

With three decades of cross-cultural professional experience with trained intercultural facilitation and coaching skills, she has assisted individuals and organisations to empower the existing diversity within to achieve higher outcomes. Over 1,000 participants from a wide range of industries including oil and gas, engineering, not-for-profit and government sectors have attended her sessions annually.

She harmonises and unifies diverse people in the workplace and communities, and activates the power of diversity by promoting understanding, collaboration, communication, and effective leadership for diverse teams.

Rika is a certified licensee of Intercultural Readiness Check (IRC), a powerful, internationally-recognised assessment tool used for improving intercultural readiness and effectiveness. She is also a representative of IRC Australia/Asia Centre.

About Auspire

Auspire is a not-for-profit organisation inspiring active citizenship and community contribution within Western Australia. We aim for Australia to be considered one of the most socially and culturally inclusive countries in the world, and we work towards this by providing capacity-building workshops to businesses and community.

Whilst Auspire attempts to verify information provided during the delivery of its programs, Auspire is not a training organisation and its programs/workshops do not qualify as accredited training. Auspire will not be liable (including but not limited to liability for negligence) to any person for any direct or indirect loss arising out of access to, use of, or reliance upon information, services and materials provided in the course of delivering its services.