Australia: Capacity Development Across Cultures (CDAC)

Enhance your effectiveness working across cultures

This popular and thought provoking two-day course will build your understanding of how to work more effectively across cultures to enhance capacity.

Who is this course for?

This popular two day workshop is invaluable for anyone planning to work overseas in a humanitarian or development context, and for people working across cultures in Australia. Participants come from a range of professional backgrounds. After the course, you'll be better prepared to apply for and succeed at volunteer or paid roles with both Australian and overseas agencies or bring additional skills to your current role.

What will you learn?

The Capacity Development Across Cultures (CDAC) course is intensive, but provides ample time and opportunity for discussion and learning from other participants.

You will gain knowledge and skills to:

• appreciate cross cultural capabilities relevant to overseas or cross-cultural programs
• understand the influence of culture on behaviour
• understand capacity and capacity development
• integrate cultural perspectives to capacity development practice
• build trust and work collaboratively with people from different cultural backgrounds
• engage in capacity development activities using contemporary approaches.

Our facilitators

CDAC is facilitated by Leadership Strategies who bring extensive experience in international development, training, cross-cultural learning and development.

Deborah Rhodes

Deborah is recognised for her expertise in capacity development approaches for Asian and Pacific countries. Since 1986, Deborah has worked for the Australian government and non-profit aid agencies and as a consultant in Pacific Islands, Indian Ocean and Caribbean countries as well as Indonesia, China, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. Deborah is experienced in all aspects of aid program management, facilitation and training.

Ernest Antoine

A thought leader, Ernest Antoine, is a qualified psychologist and management consultant specialising in cross-cultural learning and development in organisations and global leadership. Ernest trained at Harvard University and founded Leadership Strategies in 2002 to strengthen the engagement of global organisations in the Asia Pacific region, including enhancing performance for a multi-cultural workforce.

Leadership Strategies publications include:

"Capacity Across Cultures: Global Lessons from Pacific Experiences"

"Practitioners' Handbook for Capacity Development"

Course locations

CDAC is currently run in Sydney and Melbourne. Each course runs two full days and is non-residential. Participants make their own accommodation and transport arrangements. All course rates include training materials, lunch and morning and afternoon tea.

Register online or for more information email the international training team or call 03 9341 7581