Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge Tip 25

by Cindy King on 25 March, 2009   Share      

Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge – Expand Your Mindset

Cross-cultural communication is mined with possible cultural barriers and misunderstandings. People with strong cultural skills learn to verify the common understanding regularly throughout the conversation.  With experience you learn various techniques to make this a natural part of the conversation.  Another key component is to listen actively to the conversation.

Today’s Cross Cultural Communication Challenge Tip goes back to the first step of this process.

Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge Tip #25

Assume there are differences until you have confirmation of similarities.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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