Managing international projects professionally
Combine your project management expertise with intercultural skills
Contents
Successful cooperation in an international environment
- Basics of different cultures.
- Own and others' view of other cultures.
- Dealing with cultural stereotypes and directness.
- International relationship management.
Designing international projects
- Explanation of terms, definitions.
- International project management standards (IPMA®, PRINCE2®, Project Management Institute (PMI)®).
- Culturally specific understanding of planning and time, polychronic and monochronic approaches.
- Stakeholders in an international context.
- Order clarification.
- International risks and risk management.
Planning international projects
- Culture-specific target, project structure, process and quality planning.
- Scope statement, result and process quality.
- International project organization.
- Material resources and people as agents.
- Resource and cost planning.
- Plan optimization.
Managing international projects
- Project control cycle and control parameters.
- Integrated management of objectives, quality, time, costs and capacities in an international context.
- Special features of communication and information in international projects.
- Dealing with direct protocol and discussion management.
- English PM document templates.
Managing international projects
- Understanding leadership and leadership techniques.
- International leadership styles.
- International teamwork, virtuality.
- International negotiation techniques.
Checklists
Learning environment
In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.
Your benefit
- You will receive the strategic tools for managing international projects and will be prepared for project tasks in an international environment.
- You will increase your ability to successfully manage intercultural risks and integrate people from different cultural backgrounds.
- You can put together high-performance international project teams, communicate effectively, cooperate and create real synergy effects.
- You will learn the essential methods of international project management and know how to use them to achieve the desired project success within the time, quality and cost framework.
- The focus is on your international project practice: selected issues are worked on together and examined from an intercultural and project management perspective.
After attending this seminar, you will receive a confirmation of 12.50 PDUs.
Methods
Group exercises, project structuring with Metaplan, practical case studies based on participants' projects, intercultural case studies and cultural puzzles, demo films, moderated discussions, theoretical impulses, learning partnerships, reflection, opportunity to explore specific issues in greater depth.
Recommended for
project managers, sub-project managers, project employees, specialists and managers with current or future projects in the international field.
Basic knowledge of project management, such as that taught in our PM Basics seminars, is a prerequisite for participation.
PMI is a registered trademark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
PRINCE2® is a registered trade mark of AXELOS Limited, used under permission of AXELOS Limited. All rights reserved.
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Start dates and details
Monday, 23.02.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 24.02.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 20.04.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 21.04.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
Monday, 29.06.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 30.06.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 10.08.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 11.08.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
Thursday, 03.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 04.09.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 05.10.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 06.10.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
Thursday, 05.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 06.11.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 25.01.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 26.01.2027
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
Thursday, 25.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 26.02.2027
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
FAQ
International projects come with their own set of challenges, such as different ways of working, expectations of leadership, communication styles, and decision-making processes. In training , you training to systematically identify and classify these typical stumbling blocks. You will develop an understanding of how cultural differences influence project goals, deadlines, and collaboration, and you will gain tried-and-tested approaches for managing your international projects confidently and effectively.
Successful international project work depends on clear, culturally sensitive communication. You will learn how different cultures exchange information, give feedback, and make decisions. The training you how to establish communication rules, make expectations transparent, and thus build trust in international project teams, even across national borders and time zones.
In international projects, traditional planning approaches are often insufficient. You will learn how to design schedules, resources, and responsibilities in a way that takes cultural differences into account while still remaining binding. The training you how to make effective use of international project standards and adapt them to the reality of global projects in order to reliably manage deadlines, costs, and quality.
International projects involve additional risks, such as differing expectations, legal frameworks, or culturally influenced conflicts. In training , you training to identify these risks early on, assess them realistically, and derive appropriate measures. At the same time, you will learn how to involve international stakeholders in a targeted manner and remain capable of acting even in complex project situations.
The training sound project management knowledge with intercultural competence. You will not only learn about models and methods, but above all how to apply them in everyday international projects. This will enable you to manage international projects in a more structured manner, resolve conflicts more confidently, and improve cooperation in multicultural teams in the long term—a clear added value for your project success and professional development.


