Global Talents Online Programme-Effective Communication on Multicultural Platform

Aims And Objectives

This 3-week programme is designed for students who have ambition and vision to be global leader. The programme aims to create favorable conditions for international elites to become "world leaders" based on our integration platform of traditional and international business concepts. The programme is PBL (Project-Based Learning) with supervision.

Through the intensive online learning courses, students will actively cultivate intercultural business thinking skills such as cross-cultural management. Students will have the opportunity to learn professional knowledge with depth and breadth, both on theory and practice, and keep up with the economic situation. Various learning pedagogy is integrated, in form of lectures led by London political/economic experts and business elites, business visits and market research. This programme offers students opportunities to conduct research on business, economics, and management with a global perspective. Our aim is to stimulate students' comprehensive capabilities in research, presentation skills, innovative creative and logical thinking on a multicultural business platform.

What You Will Learn?

Students will work together to:

Learn about effective business communication and intercultural communication.
Get an insight into business operation on an international platform.
Gain experience in participating in the evaluation of technology-based industrial planning.
Practice and improve their English proficiency in a business setting.
Develop valuable professional skills in team building, leadership, and presentation.
Work on a project with supervisors.

Course Details

Delivery: 40 learning hours spread over 3 weeks covering live lectures, tutorials, project work and self-study time. The entire programme will be delivered in English.

The Project: This hands-on project will be team-based learning with supervision. The final project will be presented in groups to a panel of experts on the last day of the programme. This will be the culmination of your strategy, operations, finance and marketing training.

Venue: Online

Trainers: London business executives and LSE staffs

Entry Requirements

All students are expected to be studying an undergraduate degree at a well-recognized university or independent school in the world.

All students are also required to have a good command of English, and if it is not their first language, they will need to satisfy the equivalent requirement as follows:

a minimum score of IELTS (Academic Test) 6.5 overall (with no less than 6.0 in any element) or equivalent.
TOEFL (iBT) 92 overall (minimum 20 in all elements)
CET- 4 (China) minimum score of 550
CET- 6 (China) minimum score of 520

Provider

Confucius Institute for Business London

The Confucius Institute for Business London (CIBL) is a partnership between LSE, Tsinghua University. It was launched in 2006 with five sponsoring companies: HSBC, BP, Deloitte, Swire and Standard Chartered. With a strong focus on business communication, CIBL specialises in helping London business communities to learn Mandarin and foster greater understanding of the business culture in China. Alon

Main lecturer

Hong Lu

LSE • Deputy Director of Confucius Institute for Business

She specialises in executive education relating to cross-cultural studies and cultural awareness training. As a teacher trainer, education consultant and course developer & designer, her work spans Chinese and British universities.

Well-known Iecturer

Jason Wu

CIBL LSE • Project assistant

Graduated from UCL and a current postgraduate student at LSE for double degree between LSE and Fudan programme Government and Global Economic. Jason is helping this programme on admin and shares his personal experience as a UCL and LSE student.

TANG Tao

CareerVantageUK • CEO

Tao, graduated from London School of Economics and Political Science. ACA Qualified accountant. He had five-year working experience in big four's Financial Advisory practice, specialising in forensics. During his time working for PwC, he was trained as qualified assessment centre assessor. Tao cofounded CareerVantageUK and has been the CEO of the company since 2018.

Michael Mainelli

Z/Yen Group Limited • Executive Chairman

Prof. Michael Mainelli, MStJ, was educated at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin and gained his PhD at the London School of Economics where he was also a Visiting Professor.

Pik Liew

BSc Programme Director • Associate Professorial Lecturer

Dr. Pik Liew is an Associate Professorial Lecturer in accounting at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Simon Haworth

Dynasty Biotechnology • Founder,VC fund with Chinese investors for investm

Founder of 14 companies primarily in life sciences
Co-Founder of IPSO Ventures and BSG Team Ventures in the US and UK

Jennifer Bentley

Daisy Beck Studio • Director of Marketing

Jennifer is a Chartered Accountant with 25 years’ experience in Television and Media. She is a representative of the UK TV Trade body and Executive Producer on two China : UK TV cultural documentaries. Jennifer is currently Production Accounting Controller within the TV and Film division of Entertainment One, and a year 2 CIBL Mandarin student.

Jonathan Geldart

Institute of Directors • Director General,Former Director of Grant Thornton

Professional services sector of Grant Thornton, having previously sat on the company’s global board.
An expert on doing business in China, contributing to the House of
Commons select committee for international trade.

Martin Barrow

Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd. • The Company Director

Martin Gilbert Barrow, GBS, CBE (born 10 March 1944) was an appointed unofficial member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (1988–95) and a Company Director of Jardine Matheson Limited.

Hong Lu

LSE • Deputy Director of Confucius Institute for Business

Oliver Shiell

Asiability Ltd. • Founder,Board Member of Asia Scotland Institute

China Ambassador
The former Chief Representative of CKGSB Europe. (CKGSB is China's leading executive business school established by Li ka shing.)

Kent Deng

LSE • FRHistS, Professor of Economic History

Dr Kent Deng, FRHistS, is full professor in Economic History at the London School of Economics. He is a member of the Asian Research Centre and has been Secretary of the History and Economic Development Group UK since 2000.
Kent studied economic history in La Trobe University, Australia under the eminent economic historian Eric L. Jones.
He was a lecturer in Economic History at Flinders University

David Stringer-Lamar

Institute of Directors • Chairman of the Institute of Directors,

Former chairman of the Institute of Directors, City of London
the Managing Director of Fortis Consulting London

Certificate

Students will receive a verified digital certificate on successful completion of the programme. Each student will also receive a transcript for their project mark.