Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge
- Get Extreme With Clarity
When people with international profiles meet up socially, they almost always get around to sharing their cross-cultural stories. There are similarities and differences. But when you include the different cultural backgrounds together with the different cultural mixes, there are countless different cross-cultural situations.
We all have different cultural backgrounds and cross-cultural communication skills. The different mixes in cultural backgrounds leads to different situations. We all have our different stories. But there are almost always different perspectives or slight nuances that can enrich our understanding of other cultures.
Share Nuggets Of Our Cultural Experience
The story-telling conversations also often lead to people sharing what they learned from their cross-cultural encounters. The tips and nuggets of deep insights they took away from their cross-cultural encounter. This is why these exchanges are interesting.
We all come away with different tips on how to deal with cross-cultural differences and improve the cross-cultural connection. Of course there are many similarities. But the enriching part is hearing people use different words to express similar points of view.
Improve Our Cultural Understanding
Sometimes we get lucky. Another person’s story can give us a different perspective and deepen our own understanding of a different culture. This is a great way to improve our international skills.
This process of learning from another person’s story reminds me of the ancestral art of story telling in certain cultures, where stories were told to teach future generations.
What Are Your Tips?
What did you come away with after you encountered cross-cultural communication:
- Differences?
- Difficulties?
- Hurdles?
- Barriers?
Please share your tips below in the comments or reach out to me on Twitter @CindyKing
Even if you think your tip is an obvious one:
- The words you use might stimulate a stronger understanding for others
- The perspective you have might be slightly different and resonate more with others
Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge – Get Extreme With Clarity
Each day in June, I will be posting a new tip to help improve clarity in your cross-cultural communication. I would love to include some of your tips too.
Where To Get Your CCCC Tips Every Day In June:
- Here on this blog
- By following me on Twitter @CindyKing
- By using the Twitter hashtag #cccctips
Use these tips as inspiration to improve clarity of communication with your international clients.
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Read 2009 Cross-Cultural Communication Challenges to find out more about:
- All 4 Cross-Cultural Communication Challenges this year
- The 1st Cross-Cultural Communication Challenge – Expand Your Mindset
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-- Chris Garrett, co-author of the "Problogger" book
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