{"id":20931,"date":"2008-09-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/global2020prd.wpengine.com\/insights\/building-global-management-skills\/"},"modified":"2020-03-21T08:35:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T08:35:32","slug":"building-global-management-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/insights\/building-global-management-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Building global management skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Kevan Hall, CEO, Global Integration<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During my corporate career, I was managing a project for my company on how to develop global management skills and I thought I would start by asking companies who had been developing the skills of managing and leading in a global context for years.<\/p>\n<p>I went to Paris to meet with the French head of global management development for a multinational oil exploration company. I asked him what was the \u201csecret\u201d of building a truly global management group?<\/p>\n<p>He told me \u201cNo secret, there are just 2 simple steps.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First &#8211; you recruit people around the world in proportion to your business, if 10% of your business is in Nigeria, 10% of your managers should be Nigerian. Nobody begins as a global manager<\/li>\n<li>Second &#8211; You mix them up. If they never leave their homes they never become global managers, send them on visits, expatriate assignments, put them in global teams and projects so they mix with their colleagues around the world and learn to be adaptable.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;What next\u201d I asked<\/p>\n<p>Nothing\u201d he replied \u201cIf you just do these 2 things, in no more than 50 years you will have a truly global management group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It as still one of the best answers I ever got to my question &#8211; though my boss was not happy when I told him it could take 50 years!<\/p>\n<p>His basic message was a good one \u2013 recruit for diversity to match your environment and build experience and common ways of working to get things done<\/p>\n<p>It takes time to develop a truly global mindset and management capability and, for companies relatively new to working internationally it can be a whole management generation before people with this global management capability work their way through to the top of the organization in sufficient numbers to really make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>I think we can accelerate the process with the right <a href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/global-working\/global-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">global management training<\/a> and exposure to international experiences \u2013 If you can&#8217;t afford to wait 50 years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">give us a call and find out more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building global management skills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","type-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - 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