Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge Tip 13

Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge – Expand Your Mindset

Today’s Cross Cultural Communication Challenge Tip appears to be an easy one. But it is often difficult to be easy on ourselves when we are in a business context.

There are 4 monthly Cross-Cultural Communication Challenges this year.  The March Challenge helps you adopt the right mindset.  The last challenge will be about personal development.

Part of the reason behind today’s tip is the need to give space for personal development.

We need to be patient with ourselves because cross-cultural skills represent a process of personal development.  Most people need time to adjust to different cultures.

And of course, we also need to be patient with others because they are going through a similar process of adjustment.

Very often successful international business is a team effort. This means:

• We also have to be patient with others in our team
• Management needs to be aware of cross-cultural communication challenges and give their support

Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge Tip #13

Your challenge to improve you cross-cultural mindset:

• Read your daily tips every day during the challenge
• Think about what this means to you
• Reflect on how this could help you get more international clients

Suggested Reading:

• Forgive And Get More International Sales
• Morphing Into A Foreign Culture
• How To Learn Intercultural Communication Difficulties

Where To Get Your CCCC Tips Every Day:

• Here on this blog
• By following me on Twitter @CindyKing
• By using the Twitter hashtag #cccctips

Use these tips as inspiration to think about how this applies to your business and how it could help communication with your international clients.

Get All CCCC Tips:

• Read more about all 4 of the 2009 Cross-Cultural Communication Challenges
• Cross Cultural Communication Challenge 2 – Get Extreme With Clarity

And…

• Don’t forget to get the Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge 1 Mini-Poster with all of these tips on mindset

Here are the 31 tips of this first challenge to improve your cross-cultural mindset.

• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #1
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #2
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #3
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #4
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #5
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #6
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #7
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #8
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #9
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #10
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #11
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #12
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #13
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #14
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #15
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #16
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #17
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #18
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #19
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #20
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #21
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #22
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #23
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #24
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #25
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #26
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #27
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #28
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #29
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #30
• Mindset In Cross Cultural Communication Challenge – Tip #31

Sign up for Cindy’s Tips – short cross-cultural tips for people interested in developing an international business.

These are very short emails sent out every 3 days or so. The tips cover all aspects of cross-cultural communication and there are some other tips to help improve international skills.

Leave a comment below to tell me how you picked up the cross-cultural skills you needed for international business.

Got any other tips to help improve your mindset for better cross-cultural communication? Share them below!

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