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Working in Virtual Global Teams
Working in virtual global teams presents cultural challenges including understanding different perceptions before judging, showing empathy across cultures, and dealing with geographic and linguistic barriers that hamper communication. Key skills for global collaboration require cross-cultural communication, listening more than speaking to avoid assumptions, and recognizing how culture influences business practices like hierarchy, decision-making, and planning.
Working in Virtual Global Teams
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- 2. Cross Cultural Awareness understandbefore you judge Empathy
- 3. Everything is aquestion of Perception
- 4. How culture influencesbusiness CULTURE
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- 7. Challenges of culture Hierarchy Managementstyle Communication style Rules and laws Decision making Planning
- 8. Global people skills# 1: Cross Cultural Communication ―Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much‖ – Robert Greenleaf "I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening." — Larry King
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Editor's Notes
- #5 Humor aside Borat captures the cross cultural differences that many of us face on a day to day basis. Granted ours are not as colorful – nevertheless…the point is that culture influences so many aspects of our day to day business activities- OVER to Margot We’d like to introduce you to a model that has been a work in progress for us over the years.The model demonstrates how culture influences so many aspects of business.