Building Bridges Across Cultures with Csenge Fazekas

Building Bridges Across Cultures with Csenge Fazekas

Released Tuesday, 8th April 2025
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Building Bridges Across Cultures with Csenge Fazekas

Building Bridges Across Cultures with Csenge Fazekas

Building Bridges Across Cultures with Csenge Fazekas

Building Bridges Across Cultures with Csenge Fazekas

Tuesday, 8th April 2025
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On today’s episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric sits down with Csenge Fazekas, an intercultural trainer and team development consultant who helps global teams and curious individuals make their next move. Csenge specializes in helping people better understand multicultural perspectives and cultural differences and decipher everything that comes with that. Csenge is the founder of Cultural Origami and is currently based in Madrid, Spain.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

  1. Csenge Fazekas’s role as an intercultural trainer and team development consultant.
  2. The importance of culture in managing international teams and its influence on how a team functions.
  3. Some of the challenges that new managers face when leading multicultural teams.
  4. Using “fast teaming” to combine the cultures of a team into one cohesive culture.
  5. What it means to be culturally fluent and learn that cultural differences can be superpowers.
  6. Language as a tool in intercultural communications and why communication doesn’t stop with words.
  7. How Csenge implements experiential learning and improv in her workshops.
  8. Using Global DISC to create understanding between team members.
  9. The most common mistakes new managers make when they take on diverse teams.
  10. What Csenge offers in her business, Cultural Origami.


Connect with Csenge Fazekas:

Website

LinkedIn

Global DISC

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Management Development Unlocked is a global top 5% podcast for new managers and leaders who want to transform from high-performing individual contributors to great people managers. As the saying goes, “What got you here won’t get you there.” The skills that made you a great employee are almost completely opposite from the skills that will make you a great manager and leader. Eric Girard is your guide during this key transition. Experienced managers and leaders will also benefit from the tips and tricks shared on the show.Eric interviews guests from around the world with expertise in leadership, management, empathy, emotional intelligence, productivity, feedback, cultural competence, coaching, storytelling, engagement, and other management and leadership and management topics. Eric’s guests include authors and experts with decades of real-world experience who will help you smoothly make the transition into management and leadership. About your host: Eric Girard is the CEO of Girard Training Solutions LLC, a management development firm focused on helping new managers and leaders transition into their role. ​Eric has over 30 years of experience helping improve the performance of managers, leaders, and employees, including 20 years in Silicon Valley at companies like Apple, Applied Materials, and Symantec. His superpower is facilitation, and he’s led programs around the world with his high-energy and engaging facilitation and speaking style. Eric is a passionate, lifelong learner. As a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer, he is pursuing the rating of IDC Staff Instructor. When he’s not hosting a podcast or designing and or delivering training, he enjoys spending time outdoors with his wife and twin 15-year-old daughters.

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