Intercultural Trainer Training

LTS training and consulting is a leader in the intercultural trainer training field. We offer two training courses for trainers who wish to develop their skills for designing and delivering intercultural training courses. Both courses are eligible for Grundtvig in-service training grants.

Developing intercultural training skills

This highly successful course was launched in 2005 and has been run 30 times since then. It is a five-day course, designed for experienced trainers from fields such as language training, communication skills training and management training, who wish to learn more about the theory and practice of intercultural training, both to integrate intercultural topics into their current training and also to deliver their own intercultural training courses.

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Remaining dates for 2010

20 - 24 September

29 November - 3 December

Dates for 2011

24 - 28 January

14 - 18 March

20 - 24 June

19 - 23 September

28 November - 2 December

è To download a full 2010 PDF brochure of Developing intercultural training skills click here.

There will also be a special three-day version of this course, Skills for intercultural training, which will be run in cooperation with Samuel van den Bergh in Winterthur, Switzerland from 14-16 April 2010.

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Designing and delivering intercultural training

This course, launched in 2009, is designed as a follow-up to Developing intercultural training skills, in response to requests by many of the 200 participants who have attended our first course. The new course, Designing and delivering intercultural training, is a three-day course with an optional two-day workshop extension. To qualify for Grundtvig funding, you must attend all five days.

Remaining dates for 2010

27 - 29 September (or 1 October)

Dates for 2011

28 - 30 March (or 1 April)

27 - 29 June (or 1 July)

26 - 28 (or 30) September

è To download a 2010 course description of Designing and delivering intercultural training, click here.

Other recommended follow-up courses

For trainers who have attended our first course, Developing intercultural training skills, we also recommend two other follow-up courses.

· Developing People Internationally (DPI)

This is a three-day accreditation workshop delivered by York Associates at various dates and locations in Europe. It is suitable for more experienced trainers and consultants who wish to design and deliver intercultural and international team training for their clients.

For details, click here.

· Interactive Training Strategies

This is a three day workshop delivered by Thiagi, one of the leading specialists in training games and simulations. The workshop is designed to help a wide range of training practitioners to master skills and concepts related to different types of training games, simulations, and learning exercises. The course takes place in Winterthur, Switzerland from 21 - 23 June 2011.

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Location of LTS courses

Developing intercultural training skills and Designing and delivering intercultural training will take place at the LTS training centre in Bath, UK. We can also run a similar or tailored version of these courses on an in-house basis worldwide. Contact us for details. Recent in-house courses have been run for trainers at Air France, Audi Akademie and Fokus Sprachen in Germany, KEY AB in Sweden, The British Council in Rome and for facilitators from the SkyTeam airline alliance from France, the US, Italy and Mexico.

Funding for LTS courses

Trainers involved in adult education in most European countries can apply for Grundtvig in-service training grants under the EU Lifelong Learning Programme. The course reference number for the Developing intercultural training skills course is: UK-2008-674-005.

LTS facilitators - Adrian Pilbeam, Philip O’Connor

Both have long experience as senior training consultants with LTS in Bath, and have run intercultural training and trainer training sessions in many parts of the world.

Course outlines for LTS courses

For course outlines of Developing intercultural training skills and Designing and delivering intercultural training,

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