Using communication strategies to eliminate cultural barriers

Overview

Building professional relationships with people from other cultures takes time, but alienating them by inadequately overstepping cultural boundaries can instantly destroy them. Because. building relationships with people from other cultures is so important in the current context of global business, where you and people with other life experiences share the same goals and the same workspace. In this course, you will learn how to approach cultural diversity effectively, to improve cross-cultural communication and to form connections. You will also learn about misunderstandings and behaviors that can affect communication and how to eliminate them. Finally, you will learn about strategies for successfully making presentations for people from well-defined cultures or cultures with poorly defined contexts.

Objectives

• learn how to effectively address cultural differences to improve cross-cultural communication
• identify strategies for building relationships with people from other cultures
• learn about ethnocentrism, stereotypes and misunderstandings in the context of cross-cultural communication
• identify attitudes that can prevent cross-cultural communication, and useful actions in eliminating them
• learn how to adapt your message to the cultural context
• learn the rules for successful presentation of information, using a communication style with a vague context
• learn the rules for successful presentation of information, by using a style of communication with a well-defined context