23. • Where is ME?
• Who am I?
• Cultural awareness spans many areas – relationship for me is #1 priority when
working with ME as its hardest to break
• Why relationship driven culture? Theory.
• Who is more important than what
• Seeing it in practice – honour, communication (indirect, polite, no/yes, inshaallah,
mixing biz + personal, shisha, paying food,
• How to build/what to do – patience, give 100% to small talk (its doing you good),
get personal, frequent contact, wasta, remember if ppl change you need to start
again,
• Gender considerations – remember attitudes to women vary from state to state,
Prophet’s wife worked, in Gulf women achieve status through nationality and
profession, in places like Saudi you need a mahram (see if you have local contacts),
reality is also that it can be tough
• Working virtually –
Editor's Notes
Welcome
Where am I talking about? Cover area and cultural/religious links
Lots of things to learn but to me relationships are priority as hardest to break.