Improving the global leadership performance of global managers by enhancing their profile of global mindset.

Global Mindset® Services & Solutions

Thunderbird's Global Mindset Institute develops managers' ability to address challenges facing today's global organizations:

  • Global organizational strategies
  • Global integration and coordination
  • Global marketing and sales effectiveness
  • Global expansion and sustainability
  • Cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and more 

Global Mindset® Scan: A One Day Workshop

Improving the Global Leadership Performance of Global Managers
by Enhancing Their Profile of Global Mindset

Global corporations need managers, leaders, and employees who can influence people from other cultural backgrounds. Global mindset is a set of individual attributes that helps global managers succeed in their global environments.

Based on interviews with over 200 global executives and a survey of over 6,500 individuals in many countries, a team of 8 Thunderbird professors have scientifically developed the concept of global mindset. The chart below shows the three major dimensions of global mindset (Intellectual Capital, Psychological capital, and Social Capital), along with their specific attributes.

Global Mindset

Unique Feature of the Program

Prior to the program, the participants will be invited to complete The Thunderbird Global Mindset Inventory (TGMI), a scientifically designed internet based instrument that identifies a manager’s, and a group’s profile of global mindset. During the program, they will receive their individual confidential feedback report and, individually, and in groups, will develop action plans for enhancing their profile of global mindset.

Program Agenda

Session 1: 90 minutes: Case discussion: The Curious Case of David Akey: An American executive in China.
Session 2: 90 minutes: Case discussion: From a Regional Star to a global Leader: The case of the Chinese executive in France.
Session 3: 90 minutes: Lecture and discussion: What is Global Mindset? Participants will receive their own feedback reports.
Session 4: 90 minutes: Small group work: How to enhance the managers’ and their groups’ profile of global mindset.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the program, participants will:

  • Understand the complexities of global leadership in working with individuals from other cultural, political, regulatory, and institutional systems.
  • Understand key cultural similarities and differences among the different cultures, and their implications for global leaders.
  • Understand the concept of global mindset and how it can improve the performance of global leaders.
  • Receive individual feedback reports on their profile of global mindset.
  • Develop a 12 month personal action plan on how to maximize their global leadership capacity.

How to Contact Us?

Thunderbird Global Mindset Institute is the home for TGMI design, delivery, and research:

Director
Mansour Javidan, Ph.D., Dean of Research and Garvin Distinguished Professor
E-mail: mansour.javidan@thunderbird.edu
Phone: 602-978-7013

Faculty Associates
David Bowen, Ph.D., The G. Robert & Katherine Herberger Chair in Global Management
E-mail: david.bowen@thunderbird.edu

Mary Teagarden, Ph.D., Professor of Global Strategy
E-mail: mary.teagarden@thunderbird.edu

Manager, Thunderbird Global Mindset® Inventory
Hector Gutierrez
E-mail: hector.gutierrez@thunderbird.edu

Administrative Assistant
Jeannie Barbes
E-mail: jeannie.barbes@thunderbird.edu

www.thunderbird.edu/globalmindset