
Explore how a grasshopper illustrates cross-cultural leadership by contrasting tall versus flat organizational structures, hierarchical versus egalitarian, and how these ideas reduce miscommunication on multicultural teams.
Develop cross-cultural communication skills for business and personal contexts by managing multicultural teams across generations, fostering diversity and inclusion, and coaching for high-performance global relationships.
Discover how corporate culture delivers ROI, illustrated by Zappos' wow experience that Amazon aimed to capture as part of a new corporate culture.
Explore how indulgence and restraint indices relate to happiness and life control across cultures, contrasting indulgent societies' optimism and social participation with restrained societies' order and exterior locus of control.
Explore how five generations shape workplaces and how leaders can cross cultural and generational boundaries. Understand stories, motivations, and values that drive millennials and other generations.
Identify the five conflict communication styles on an assertiveness-cooperativeness matrix and learn to turn conflict into value and collaboration across cultures.
Explore the five dysfunctions of a team, from lack of trust to inattention to results, and learn how to foster trust, constructive conflict, commitment, accountability, and collective focus.
Use the Stop technique to resolve conflict by focusing on behavior, honestly expressing how it impacts you, offering constructive options, and aiming for positive outcomes.
Develop active listening to bridge cross-cultural communications by distinguishing listening from hearing, applying the three levels of listening, and using six steps with a mnemonic to improve relationships and outcomes.
Distinguish hearing from listening as an active, high cognitive load process. Three listening levels reveal how attention, trust, and meaningful exchange shape communication, from mirror to catch to dance.
The first letter, L in the LISTEN method is about Learning about the speaker as we listen to what is and is not said. The Zappos online shoe store's success is attributed to customer service representatives dedicated to delighting their customers with their listening and learning acuity.
I is about Investing time in listening vs. spending time listening. Human relations, like finance, accrues value from investing and loss from spending. The analogy helps differentiate the return on investment possible from this commitment to investing in listening.
S is for switching perspectives and suspending cognitive biases. Don't have any biases? Think again. See if you can solve the riddle of the surgeon.
T is for Transformation vs. transaction. When we leave people better off after engaging with us, they intuitively like, trust and want to do business with us. People are happier to collaborate and reciprocate when we treat them like they're important and that you're in it for the long term.
E, for Empathy. This is the secret of success to sustain relationships. By demonstrating that we read other people's emotions even if they're not spoken, we cultivate trust and engagement. A case study from Washington DC.
N is for Negotiation. When we half listen, we leave money on the table. However, when we listen intentionally, we create new value, add loyalty and position ourselves as leaders.
Welcome to Digital Diversity and Cross-Cultural Communication Skills!
In today's global and digital world, successful cross-cultural communication is crucial, especially in virtual and hybrid work settings.
In this course, we will also focus on developing empathetic listening skills, a critical component of successful cross-cultural communication.
This course will provide you with step-by-step skills to operate effectively in a digital and diverse world and bridge the cross-cultural communication gap.
Our community of participants shares the challenges of engaging employees and managing talent at a distance, and you will learn the step-by-step skills that deliver results right away.
You will learn to increase engagement, lift participants' contributions, overcome resistance to digital meetings, and build bridges to connect with anyone, anywhere, anytime.
This course will teach you how to transform digital teams into flywheels of scalable success.
"If you want to go fast--go alone. If you want to go far--go together!"
"You cannot shake a fist with a closed mind." - Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India
Join us now and become a digitally diverse team member and cross-cultural communications professional!
*As an assurance of my commitment to your satisfaction, I offer a complete refund of your purchase within a 30-day window. My goal is to provide you with an exceptional learning experience, and if for any reason you are not completely satisfied with the course, I am happy to issue a full refund. This risk-free policy is in place to ensure that you can enroll with confidence, knowing that your investment is protected.