If you’re a business professional working in an international setting, then you’ll understand the importance placed on cultural competence.
Whether it’s recruitment, promotion or performance development - the need for cultural competence is of increasing importance in business.
Communicating clearly is crucial if you want to hit your targets on the global stage.
Learning how to shape your message and adapt your delivery to the audience, makes you more effective.
In this blog, we’re going to closely inspect a few examples of cultural awareness.
The examples are drawn from the real-life experiences of our clients.
In this blog, we’re looking at how to become more culturally competent.
What steps can we take in order to work with people from other countries and cultures more effectively?
In this blog, we’re looking at the definition of cultural awareness.
Within the training, education and research fields you will hear many terms, sometimes used interchangeably.
What would you draw to illustrate the meaning of 'culture'?
This is a little exercise we commonly use in cultural awareness training courses to get people thinking about how culture works.
Foreigners working in Thailand can misunderstand the local culture in many ways.
Thais tend to be judged against values and standards that are alien to them which leads to their behaviours and actions being seen incorrectly.
Does Cultural Awareness training work?
Will investing in such training really offer any sort of ROI and help your staff?
Where did 'culture' come from? What does 'culture' do?
In order to get to heart of cultural difference, you need to understand what culture is, how it works and why it exists.
Culture is a complex thing.
It affects everything we do from the way we raise our kids to the way we do business.
Working with the Japanese in a professional capacity can be tough.
For some cultures, such as for Americans, Canadians, Germans, Australians and British, the Japanese culture can seem a little alien.
Need examples of cultural misunderstandings in business?
In this blog, we are going to share real-life examples of cultural misunderstandings from our cross-cultural training work.
Would you sacrifice one life to save many?
This is the question researchers posed to people around the world, gaining some fascinating insights into values, beliefs and cultural differences.
Doing business in China? Then you'll be attending lots of meetings!
If you’re attending meetings in China, then it’s important to understand a little about Chinese culture and how meetings are run.
Over the past 15 years a continuous theme, which has never ceased to amaze us, has been the way in which businesses significantly underestimate the impact of cultural differences.
It typically takes something to go wrong before stakeholders take notice.
Evey company working on the international stage needs to prepare their staff with the skills and knowledge to work across cultures.
Where online cultural training is not an option, then it’s essential to provide staff with easily accessible, bitesize, digestible materials.
There is no better way to understand the impact of cultural differences upon business than to look at real-life examples.
No matter what business, sector or market you are in, if you deal with people from different cultures, then cultural difference is going to impact what you do somewhere, somehow.
A common misconception people have of cultural awareness is that it’s about “the other”; that its main focus is learning about other people and how they do and don’t do things.
Although this is certainly part of it, cultural awareness also relies heavily on self-awareness.
Google Search Engine data provides a fantastic window into the cultures of different countries by giving us an insight into online searches.
By understanding what people within that country or culture are searching for, we can start to appreciate the topics and concerns that bind them together.
The training world is evolving at an incredible pace.
Indeed, discussions of blended learning by L&D professionals have quickly moved beyond ‘why do we need it?’ to ‘how do we do it?’
