GIST Training Unit 5: Company Culture

Traditionally viewed as a sector that relies on handcrafted and manufacturing processes, in the last years, the furniture industry has been embracing new technologies. Thus furniture companies have to keep up with the increasing technological transformation – a challenging task for organisations and requiring personnel with skills they never had before.

Under this context, GIST strengthens those key skills and competences through the development of a novel training e-course to achieve the basic competences for SMEs to reach the status of bionic enterprise.

LU16: Innovation Uptake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7trRTLUgxZ8 

Taking risks can sometimes bring great results. In module LU16, you will learn how making changes to structures or implementing smart solutions can improve business management need not create a drastic situation for any company if best practices in business innovation are followed.

LU17: Leadership
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpv-hbQTFY4 

Leadership is the ability of an individual or a group of individuals to influence and guide employees, followers or other members of an organisation. In module LU17, you learn the difference between the terms leadership and management and the key leadership competencies. 

LU18: Intercultural Mediation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6jWmfB6Jt8 

Intercultural mediation can be defined as a methodology which looks beyond language, culture and politics barriers to find a common understanding of ethics and improve a person's ability to mediate between colleagues and between his/her own cultural understanding and the understanding of other people. In module LU18, you will learn how to effectively use intercultural mediation to make business and life more creative and dynamic.