The Grapevine Chamber's Business Insight Series is designed for individual employees, managers or business owners who are interested in improving or developing their business skills.

Topic: Building Cultural Awareness & Competency

Speaker: Carlos Merla, Master Certified Executive Coach & Trainer

About the Program:
In this very interactive session you will learn the importance of understanding culture, and how to become fully aware of the diversity of cultures around us. We all live and work in a culturally diverse world and many times we neglect the opportunities and possibilities it offers us. You will learn how cultural awareness, knowledge and skill creates your cultural competency, and how to use this skill to your advantage.

During this session you will learn:

• The impact from "cultural profiling" - How perceptions are made based on how people look, and, how people look at you
• Foundations of culture identity - Defining Traditional Cultures, Subcultures, and Universal Cultures
• Critical aspects of cultural competency - Building your knowledge of cultural awareness, knowledge and skill
• Creating a working culture - The responsibility to create the culture in your working environment to influence the changing demographics.
• "Core Events of Cultural Awareness" - Tales of awareness and cultural competency. Appropriately understanding and responding to cultural uniqueness