Clarity In Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge

Cross-Cultural Communication 30-Day Challenge – Get Extreme With Clarity

This the second Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge. The first challenge in gave you 31 tips to Expand Your Mindset. This 30-day challenge gives you one short tip each day.

Why Do We Need To Get Extreme?

Clarity in communication is important, in cross-cultural communication it is critical and in international business it can be the difference between success or failure. When international businesses lack of clarity this can:

  • Slow down an international sales process
  • Cost more in sales support
  • And, even kill sales

We all overestimate the clarity of our own communication. After all, we understand what we are saying. And usually our colleagues, friends, neighbors and everyone else around us also understand us. It is when we try to communicate across cultures where the communication gets bumpy and we learn to seek even more clarity in our communication.

Listen To Improve Clarity

During this 30-day challenge we will look at little ways to improve clarity in cross-cultural communication. These 30 days are broken down into 6 sections of 5 days each.

  • Listen
  • Don’t Assume
  • Be Aware
  • Simplify
  • Explain
  • Global Vision

Clarity begins with listening. When you listen carefully to your cross-cultural communication you can:

  • Identify areas where there is a lack of clarity
  • When you need to give more details
  • See patterns when communication needs further explanation

Where To Get Your CCCC Tips:

  • Follow me on Twitter in March, June, September and December @CindyKing
  • Use the Twitter hashtag #cccctips

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Clarity In Cross-Cultural Communication Tips

Here are the 30 tips to help you get extreme with clarity in your cross-cultural communication:

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Get All CCCC Tips:

First Month: Short tips to think about

There are 4 Cross-Cultural Communication Challenges in 2009. Cross-cultural communication can be overwhelming. International business professionals are often too busy to take the time to improve their cross-cultural communication skills. This is why this challenge is divided into 4 specific areas of improvement and why the tips are very short.

Challenge Why When
Mindset It all starts here March 2009
Clarity Your first priority June 2009
Trust To bring in sales September 2009
Personal Development For strong cultural skills December 2009

These 4 different aspects of cross-cultural communication are what I found to be the most important to me throughout my 25 years of international sales and marketing. You can read more about the other monthly challenges here:

Don’t forget to download the Free Mini-Poster from the first monthly challenge to Expand Your Mindset

Use Your Cultural Skills to Get More International Sales

Second Month: Short review on how to use the cultural tips to get more international sales

Are you an international business professional? Then don’t stop at this month’s challenge. After each monthly Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge, the following month reviews each one of these tips once again, this time together the corresponding International Sales Best Practices.

This is where things get fun. You will see where to put your cultural skills into practice to get more international sales. Turbo charge your learning by going through the cross-cultural communication tips once again, this time looking at them from a sales angle and through the eyes of an international sales professional.

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