Webcast:
While diverse perspectives are essential to team productivity, ultimately a productive team must speak the same language literally (for understanding) and figuratively to agree on team direction and approaches. Global teams have an immediate advantage by their composition to having diverse perspectives, but how they hammer out understanding and agreement is critical to their performance. This webcast will cover how diverse teams make decisions, while making the most of their diversity.
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Presenters
Andres Tapia is Hewitt Associates' Chief Diversity Officer and Emerging Workforce Solutions Leader, responsible for leading the company in its internal and external diversity vision and strategies.Andres is a published writer and prominent speaker. He has experience as a journalist with articles on social issue trends in the U.S. and Latin America appearing in publications such as the Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Voce (Brazil), Benefits Quarterly, and Hemispheres magazine. He has been interviewed by major media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Fortune magazine in the U.S., La Nacion and El Clarin in Argentina, El Mercurio in Chile, Voce, Valor, and Revista Amanha in Brazil, and HR industry publications such as HR Magazine, Benefit News, and Benefits Canada Magazine.His lifelong personal and work experiences in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Spain, India, Kenya, and throughout Latin America and his native Peru provide him with a true global perspective to the work. His work for Hewitt and dozens of its multinational clients ground him on the cross-industry implications of the varying worldviews around health, wealth, and performance by the growing number of diverse groups in the workplace.Andres' innovative approach to foster an inclusive work environment includes shifting paradigms such as from tolerance and sensitivity to crosscultural competence, and from programmatic to sustainable diversity. Andres created several groundbreaking and high-impact diversity learning and multicultural marketing programs. He is also one of the founders of Hewitt's Latino and Hispanic employee network group.Prior to this role, Andres worked as a performance and knowledge management leader for several of Hewitt's lines of business. Andres has worked at CSC and Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) doing performance consulting, instructional design, and technical writing.He holds a B.A. in History with an emphasis in journalism and political science from Northwestern University.
I'm hoping to learn about how team leaders distinguish speaking a common language, such as English, balanced with drawing on multiple perspectives (i.e. the North American team members don't always predominate)