Finding New Business Idea In Cross Culture Living
I’m English and was a Brazilian woman married for 25 years. I remember how we had both a culture shock when trying to understand each other in the early days of our relationship. For example, I do not think he is grateful for certain things, like dinner out, because he does not say “thank you”. I’ve learned that they are mandatory. Instead, it is me with a thoughtful gift as a way to surprise my gratitude. The journey is more real and thoughtful. Landmine automated, but still important in my culture.
That’s a lot of risk in cross-cultural exchange. We can see the world through our own cultural “lens” and make assumptions and judgments on our own experiences and education based.
This difference is often considered in the form of different national characteristics, but they can also apply wherever two or more persons other training, experience, values, attitudes to time, or authority, or different kinds of use of body language or verbal or have physical contact. Thus, his culture, for example, applies to the various subcultures within an organization or organizations, or regional differences in the same country.
How best to improve risk management? How can we build a bridge from one side of the cross-cultural gap to the other?
Entire books and studies, lives, has devoted to this purpose, both in the broadest sense, and also in certain cultures. Leadership and management were also studied in detail in the entire culture.
Here we have only space to some of the most important basics to help you is to grow cross-cultural understanding and skills set, before moving to management or, in specific leadership skills (eg planning, to work together, delegate or check):
1) Understand how others see you and your own culture (as it is relevant, that’s your department sub-culture, culture of your company or national culture). Begin by selecting the external perspective on how to be different. This will open your mind to other people and learn and become more open and respect for differences. Visualize, or better still, film, culture in action. Listen to your movies with and without sound. What you hear and see? What adjectives come to mind to describe the culture?
2) development of support resources as possible. It seems the best or most relevant experience have overcome? Observing and listening, as they deal with different situations. Who can mentor and help you with your own challenges or things that you do not understand? What can be learned to help you understand better? Is there a relevant text or natural? What are the generally accepted behavior and actions in terms of etiquette?
3) Develop your ability to suspend judgment, listen actively and ask open questions are good. Suspend your judgment about what is right or wrong. Challenge your own thinking – what assumptions you make? Slow down, knowing that if you learn a new culture of speeding and make a quick assessment can lead to making unnecessary mistakes. In other words, do your best to remove normal “lens” and pretend to see things through the eyes neutral.
4) Can you learn something, or master, the other language “(technical or national)? Encoded in the language is the root value and the interpretation of values ??and ways of being and doing.
5) Check the cross-comprehension by asking questions can be respectful, to come to the same thing from different perspectives.
6) What do you think is best for your learning in a lower risk of social learning environment or other outside employment or business to accelerate? Can you interested friends who are in your culture and be able to answer, to share experiences and perspectives?
7) Be careful with humor, because it can vary greatly across cultures. Even lower risk of self-deprecating humor can be seen as indicating a lack of self-esteem or other undesirable characteristics. Note the kind of humor, the “works” in a positive way.
Take a positive attitude. You can actually grow your own, even if cross-cultural experience. It can help you better listeners, better communicators, better “readers” of the unspeakable and to help understand above all, to be a new way. Remember, the culture, the things that changes dynamically with the infinite variations possible. Even if something clashes with your values ??and actually have to change, where the great honor. Often result from a long period of human interaction. Convicted can kill your love and learning quickly and will improve our ability to help him change for the better. Look for the positive.
About the Author
Brian guests an international executive coach and founder of Thrive career, a career development together with a number of tools to help you advance your career.
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