THE GL BAL

PROFESSIONAL

October 2020
Session 1 – Introduction
 Welcome to The Global Professional (TGP)
This innovative ground-breaking module was developed as part of the University’s
strategy to enhance your employability and to inspire you on your journey to
becoming a truly ‘Global Professional’.

We will guide you in your development of your professional and intercultural skills
set, which will enable you to live and work effectively in multicultural environments.
You will prepare yourself for building your career in an increasingly global business
environment.
The module combines employability, graduate attributes, intercultural effectiveness
and CIPD behaviours to offer future employers, colleagues and other stakeholders an
adaptable, interculturally aware, professional graduate.
Etiquette
• What do we need to be mindful of to
ensure that everyone has a positive
learning experience?
• What behaviours should be encouraged
• What behaviours should be discouraged?
This is an easy module
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All we ask…
◦ ENGAGE!
◦ Check emails every day
◦ Check Brightspace
◦ Reply to emails
◦ Complete developmental assignments
◦ Do the suggested reading and some of your
own
◦ Write in your journal/blog
◦ COME TO CLASS
Delivery
5 sessions– 3 hours tutor contact per In between sessions:
session ◦ Complete developmental
Weeks commencing: assignments
◦ 1st March 2021
◦ Reading
◦ 19th April 2021
◦ Observing
◦ 4 October & 18 October
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◦ 1st & 15th November ◦ Reflexive Journal

◦ 29th November & 13th December
Assessment
50% Written (Individual)
Throughout the year you will complete tasks
after the sessions, evidence and reflection
which will combine:
◦ subject module experience
◦ enrichment activities
◦ employability input
all through the lens of intercultural
awareness and individual professional goals.
Extracts from your reflexive journal form
the basis of a 1500 word reflection on your
perception of your progress, justified by
reference to key theories, concepts and
models from the module.
50% Oral (Group)
In the sessions you will be working in multi-
cultural teams towards your choice of oral
assessment from a range of innovative tasks.
• An intercultural artefact + rationale
• A walk in their shoes
• Teach me
Your group can choose which assessment to
complete. The purpose of this is for better
engagement, ongoing application of and
formative feedback on module content in the
development of the assessment.
Because…

Businesses want to see potential for:

• real world tangible ability and skill
• graduates with intercultural and employability skills they have previously had to pay for
 The British Council survey asked managers of 367 large
employers in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South
Africa, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the United
Kingdom (UK), and the United States of America (USA)
to consider the key skills needed for global working.
1.Demonstrates respect for others
2.Builds trust
3.Works effectively in diverse teams
4. Is open to new ideas/ways of thinking
5. Is collaborative
6. Listens/observes to deepen understanding
7. Is comfortable with complex situations
8. Is flexible
9. Adapts easily to different cultural settings
10. Adjusts communication to suit different cultural contexts
11. Is creative
12. Understands different cultural contexts and viewpoints
13. Is aware of own cultural influence
14. Tolerates ambiguity
Avoiding the Reification of Culture
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to people from
emotions
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according to
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(Killick, 2018)
Problem I’m so lucky to be working on a

… campus where 100+

nationalities are
represented….now what did I do
with ‘Burkina Faso for
Visitors’?...

Solution… apply an understanding of the basic CONSTRUCTION of

EVERY culture to inform our intercultural encounters
 5 ‘Etic’ Societal Constructs

Order and Power

Valued Behaviour

Inter/Intra personal Relationships

Relationship with Time

Relationship with the Environment

Mindset Behaviours Skills The Global
Knowledge
Professional
 Opening the borders to
overcome the challenges

Your personal Other culture zone

comfort zone of appropriateness

Your personal comfort zone and the zone of appropriateness

 Operational (3rd) culture

Your personal Other culture zone

of appropriateness
comfort zone

The zone of appropriateness and your personal comfort zone

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 CMI – Personal Development Planning
https://www.managers.org.uk/~/media/Files/Checklists/CHK-092-Personal_Development_Planning.pdf

Establish the
purpose/direction

Identify development
Review and evaluate
needs

Look at development
Record outcomes
opportunities

Undertake Formulate an action

development plan
What are your employability goals?

◦ Where will you be working?

◦ What will your profession be?
◦ What will your role be?
◦ What working relationships will you have?
◦ In what way will you be working with people from other cultures?
◦ How can working with students and staff from other cultures at UoH impact your career
goals?
◦ Has covid-19 changed your career goals?
Goal-setting
◦ “If you go to work on your goals, your goals
will go to work on you. If you go to work on
your plan, your plan will go to work on you.
Whatever good things we build end up building
us.”
◦ https://www.success.com/17-remarkable-quotes-by-jim-rohn/

◦ If you don't design your own life plan, chances

are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And
guess what they have planned for you? Not
much.
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 Habits – one small step at a time

RESULTS

1% IMPROVEMENT
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1% DECLINE

TIME
(Clear, 2018)
The Plateau of Latent Potential

RESULTS

WHAT YOU THINK

SHOULD HAPPEN

WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS

TIME

VALLEY OF DISAPPOINTMENT (Clear, 2018)

Progress
25 degrees – no change
26 ….
27 ….
28 ….
29 ….
30 ….
31 …. Nothing
32 degrees the ice cube starts to melt