Leading People in China will give you the insights you need to reach your goals by learning from the collective wisdom of over 150 Senior Chinese executives who, through interviews and surveys conducted by program host Dana Chan, gave their feedback and recommendations on how foreigners can manage more effectively in China.
This one-day, value-packed course is both insightful and revealing, and serves as a set of invaluable lessons for any expatriate executive managing in a Chinese context. Distinguished business executives from the local MNC community serve as panelists for a final 1.5-hour interactive discussion session to cap the day. |
| Why attend? |
• Learn from perspectives of senior Chinese executives working in MNCs
• Understand better how your Chinese managers perceive your leadership style
• Avoid making the same costly mistakes as others have made
• Panel of experts address your specific issues and opportunities
• Small group setting to maximize interactivity and quality networking opportunity |
What will I learn? |
• Recommendations from Chinese executives on how foreigners can be more effective in managing employees, working with customers, suppliers, and government
• Better general understanding of the Chinese mindset to motivate and retain
• Personal profile on how you and others think |
| What value will I get? |
• Cost of serious problems saved by learning to read situations and act early
• Savings in time, resources, and effort wasted on mistakes that you can learn to avoid
• Contributions to company's bottom line through improvements in your leadership effectiveness. |
| Content: |
Briefing of Chinese Context
- Business environment and its impact on people
- Human Resource Challenges in China today
Self
Managing in Different Cultures, Individual Thinking Preference
Communication
Culture Difference, Views from Western and Chinese, Adjustment Lunch
Leadership
Expectation of Leaders in China, Views from Chinese, Adjustment
Organization
When Policy Meets Reality
Expert Panel Roundtable |
| Your program host: |
Ms. Dana Chan
Dana Chan is the Managing Director of the Global Talent Development Center (GTDC). Dana has 21 years of experience as a consultant and business executive in Hong Kong, the USA, Indonesia, Singapore, and China. She has worked with a variety of organizational types, from multinational firms to family businesses to startup companies.
Ms. Chan's specific management experience includes post M&A business process integration, large scale IT management and implementation, and corporate human resource management in China and the Asia Pacific region. She teaches a number of MBA programs for Jiaotong University and Shanghai University. Ms. Chan also provides mentoring in career management and personal growth for executives and MBA students.
In 2006 and 2007, Ms. Chan spent nine months conducting extensive interviews and surveys with senior Chinese executives on the challenges of managing in China and the effectiveness of their expatriate bosses and colleagues. GTDC's courses for foreign business leaders in China are based largely on the results of these interviews, along with Ms. Chan's own international management experiences in human resources, IT implementation and post-M&A integration in more than 6 cities in China.
Ms. Chan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from Jinan University in Guangzhou, China, and an MBA in International Business from the University of Southern California, U.S.A. |
| Turn the Learning into Action with this Special Offer: |
Follow-up coaching is available to support you in applying what you learn to the specific issues you face in your business. Sherry Read of Read Solutions Group will support you in the development, application and follow-up to a specific action plan aimed at excellence in your business. Coaching will be given in 3 one-hour sessions over the 2 months following the course. Coaching booked at the time of the course registration is available at discounted rates.
Sherry Read has over 20 years of experience in human resources, compensation and process improvement. Since relocating to Singapore in 2000 to manage regional HR responsibilities for a multinational corporation, she has focused on the human capital challenges of managing and growing businesses in the Asia Pacific. She is active in Shanghai in the American Chamber of Commerce and the Expatriate Professional Women’s Society. Sherry is a Member of the International Coach Federation.
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Comments from Past Participants:
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Mr. Ray Padgett |
CEO, Shanghai Gaozhi Padgett Investment and Consulting Co. Ltd
“We learned in your seminar that there are subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle differences in culture and communication that present challenges to both parties. For us to learn from people with years of experience at the seminar gives us a much clearer understanding of how we can work to achieve the goals of the people that we are working with.
This seminar provides us foreigners with valuable information and tools that will immediately help us to achieve success as we do business and manage our companies in China and gain the benefit of knowledge from successful people who have already had the experience.”
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Mr.Geoffrey Howe |
General Manager,
Argyle International Airport Hotel Hongqiao (worked in China for one and a half years)
“Thank you for the seminar. I must say I was very impressed with the course, it offered me great insight into the Chinese mind and way of doing business in China. This has been very useful to me and I can see I will have a great deal of use for the information I gained in my working life in China. I would look forward to any other courses that the GTDC may offer in the future” |
Fanny Chan |
Publisher, Job Market Publishing Limited, Hong Kong (Manages China operations)
“Not only was the training interesting, it is helping me to put a closer lens on the execution of my human capital plan in China.” |
Judy Inn |
Executive Director, Sing Tao News Corporation, Hong Kong (worked in China for 2 years)
“The training shared insights and real life cases of multinational executives managing local Chinese workforces. The course was interesting and would be useful to those companies entering the China market as well as those already in the market who could benefit from a review of their human capital deployment plan. More real life cases and discussion would be useful.” |
San Jose |
Director, Technology Company
“I've spent the past 15 months in China, setting up a factory. I thought that nearly all of the comments and information was 100% right on. Very good presentation.” |
St. Paul |
Executive V.P. of Human Resources, Financial Company
“Dana was fabulous and the information was very good to know!” |
Irvine |
Director Worldwide Business Development, Technology Company,
“Dana was very articulate and clear. Thank you.” |
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