Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge Tip 17

Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge – Expand Your Mindset

Some people love cultural generalizations. I am often asked for anecdotes on cross-cultural communications gone wrong. The truth is that things are almost always much more complex and cannot be resumed accurately in any generalized statement.

In addition, many cultural generalizations that were common 20 years ago can easily get you into trouble today. There are generation issues and globalization issues that make these generalization totally obsolete.

Today’s Cross Cultural Communication Challenge Tip reminds us not to fall into the trap of cultural generalizations. People with strong international skills are also good at recognizing the different segments within one cultural group, and seeing how these different segments interact with each other.

Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge Tip #17

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:

• A Comparison Of Words In Different Cultures
• A Cultural Generalization Out Of Context
• Beyond Cultural Generalizations

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.

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