Invited Keynote Speech at the Zukunft Personal in Germany
Cologne, Germany. On October 14th 2010, Dr. Hora Tjitra was invited to give the keynote speech at the largest European HR Conference and Exhibition Zukunft Personal in Cologne. In the past ten years, the exhibition has established itself as Europe’s leading exhibition for human resource management. There are a number of good reasons for its proven success: The HRM Expo offers visitors a broad spectrum of possibilities that could not be more comprehensive. With 532 exhibitioners and 11,837 visitors in 2010 the HRM Expo experienced its best result in its history.
With more than 200 lectures, which offer the opportunity to meet with well-known experts personally, the HRM Expo is more comprehensive than all other congresses. Next to internationally recognized keynote speakers leading plenty of best practice examples are the action zone areas – where training seminars will be held live. Along with other world-renowened keynote speakers incl. Dr. Frank Schirrmacher, Dr. Tony Humphreys, Mr. Werner Wiki Küstenmacher, Mr. Charles Jennings, and Ms. Aviva Witterberg-Cox; Dr. Hora Tjitra presented recent studies and best practice examples from Asia (China) on the challenges and potentials in building high-performance teams at the top management level in an International Joint-Venture. Subsequently the culture-specific intercultural sensitivity will be discussed, highlighting examples from Germany, China and Indonesia.
Along with it, he was also invited to give his speech on the Global Learning Track at the parallel conference Professional Learning Europe, where he shared his experiences and insights on how to develop intercultural competence and sensitivity for the (current and future) global leaders.
Invited speech at Professional Learning Europe
Cologne. On Oct 14th, 2010 Dr. Hora Tjitra was invited to give speech on the Global Learning Track Global Talent Development and Performance Management at the International Conference Professional Learning Europe. The Professional Learning Europe supports organizations in keeping up with training and education, offering a showcase of practical approaches and best practice examples and demonstrating how learning contents can be constructed and communicated in a way that guarantees an optimum learning-on the job.
Dr. Tjitra delivered a speech about how to develop the intercultural competence of (current and future) global leader using an action learning approach. He introduced the recent studies and best practice examples on building intercultural competence and sensitivity for different target groups, incl. senior leaders and young professionals. Subsequently different learning and development approaches to enhance those competence will be discussed, highlighting on the examples from Germany, China and other Asian region.
Other speeches on the global learning track were delivered by Dr. Charlotte Haimerl and Philip Hölzle of Kienbaum Management Consultants, Armin Hopp of Digital Publishing, Fadi A. Khalik of McGrawHill, as well as Petra Gajewski and Karl-Heinz Reits of SAP, and John Barnes of CocaßCola . The session was moderated by Armin Hopp of Digital Publishing and Thomas Jenewein of SAP.
HRM EXPO 2010: Europe’s largest Exhibition for Human Resource Management
With more than 500 exhibitioners and more than 11,000 trade visitors, the HRM Expo 2010 is the largest HR exhibition in Europe. In the past ten years, the exhibition has established itself as Europe’s leading exhibition for human resource manage- ment. There are a number of good reasons for its proven success: The HRM Expo offers visitors a broad spectrum of possibilities that could not be more comprehensive.
With more than 200 lectures, which offer the opportunity to meet with well-known experts personally, the HRM Expo is more comprehensive than all other congresses. Next to internationally recognized keynote spea- kers leading plenty of best practice examples are the action zone areas – where training seminars will be held live. These offer unique opportunities for visitors to profit through participation.
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Some of our members joined the exciting learning and research project Intercultural Employability which was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. One purpose of the project is to design intercultural learning experiences for the Chinese and German young professional in preparation for their career in the global world.
During the project, 10 German and 10 Chinese students are working together on some challening projects for 20 days in China and Germany; and also virtually through the web. Using this action learning approach, which was combined with lectures, guest lectures, company visits as well as culture programs makes the intercultural learning experiences more vivid and long-lasting.
One of our member – Shentu Teng – designe and creates the web documentation of it. You are invited to take a look and find out more about the program.
Journey to the West – 10 days in Germany
On May 2nd, Prof. Tjitra, Prof. Ma, Prof. Jin and 10 students departured from Hangzhou, arrived early in the morning in Frankfurt, Germany – where two of the German students from our partner university already waiting for us. The train trip from Frankfurt to Bonn, was really enjoyable – although after 15 hrs flight we were very tired, but the beautiful landscape on the famous Rhein river was just amazing.
During the 10 days in Germany, we visited a number international companies, incl. Giesecke & Devrient, BMW etc. as well a a number cultural program, e.g. City-tour in Munich, German bier-garten on the Starnberg lake, and the famous castle new schwanschtein. Also we got the chance to discuss about intercultural issues with guest speakers from some leading consulting companies such as Kienbaum, Deloitte etc.
Meanwhile we had our own team-project work with our German friends. The intercultural and team learning experiences in this team-project was really matchless. We were divided into four groups, working together in four different topics: ‘intercultural assessment tools’, ‘best practices in international recruitment’, ‘cross-cultural study on impression management’ and ‘Video-based intercultural learning’.
If you are curious about our results – sure you are -, we can show you later. During this intensive twenty days project, we learn a lot about German culture and working style through face to face communication, cooperation and experiencing which impress us a lot. Some of our group members already shared their most impressive things on the web, if you are interested, welcome to visit our forum.
Perspectives of Intercultural Competence
Regensburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany – organized an international symposium on “Perspectives of Intercultural Competence” to honor the seventieth birthday of Prof. Dr. Alexander Thomas in late November 2009.
Dr. Tjitra was invited to present his research on “Chinese Intercultural Competence and Sensitivity”, and he took the chance to congratulate and meet again with his “Doktorvater” (German word for PhD supervisor) and old colleagues. The two days international symposium was a great success, with an open and constructive discussion on the current issues and trends on the theory of “cultural standard” and “intercultural competence”.
