As organizations expand across borders and teams become increasingly global, leaders are navigating more complex cultural dynamics than ever before. Differences in communication styles, decision-making expectations, feedback approaches, and workplace norms can create misunderstandings that affect collaboration, performance, and engagement.
This webinar will explore the most common cross-cultural leadership challenges facing global teams today and how HR professionals can help leaders develop the cultural intelligence needed to manage effectively across cultures. Through practical examples and real-world case studies from multinational organizations, participants will gain insights into how cultural differences shape leadership expectations and team interactions.
This session will also examine strategies HR leaders can use to support managers working across regions, including tools for improving cross-cultural communication, building inclusive global teams, and reducing misunderstandings that often arise in multicultural workplaces.
By the end of the session, HR professionals will walk away with practical approaches to strengthen global leadership capability and foster more effective collaboration across diverse teams.
Key Takeaways
Participants will learn how to:
- Identify the most common cross-cultural leadership challenges in global teams
- Recognize how cultural differences influence communication, feedback, and decision-making
- Apply practical strategies to help leaders manage multicultural teams more effectively
- Support the development of cultural intelligence as a core leadership capability
- Build HR initiatives that strengthen collaboration across global teams
Meet the Presenter
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Skye Hao
Skye Hao focuses her practice on domestic and international labor and employment law matters. She counsels clients with cross border operations on global employment issues across regions around the world, and she also handles domestic charges of discrimination, employment litigation, and advice and counsel matters.
Prior to joining Littler, Skye worked at a national law firm, where she served as a trusted advisor to U.S. and multinational employers. She advised on complex employment and compliance matters, including hiring, recruiting, compensation, benefits, employee relations, worker classifications, and post termination issues.
Domestically, Skye also worked with an international firm in its intellectual property and corporate practice groups.
SHRM certification has approved this webinar for 1 PDC toward SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP recertification. A program code will be provided at the end of the webinar.