Podcasts about when cultures collide

“When Cultures Collide“ was given by Brother Dave Kistler from the pulpit of Calvary Baptist Church on April.21.2024. Thank You for Listening For PRAYER or Questions please respond. contact@cbcuniongrove.com Call 704-327-5662 P.O. Box 298 Union Grove, NC 28689

“When Cultures Collide“ was given by Brother Dave Kistler from the pulpit of Calvary Baptist Church on April.21.2024.Thank You for ListeningFor PRAYER or Questions please respond.contact@cbcuniongrove.comCall 704-327-5662P.O. Box 298 Union Grove, NC 28689

Summary This week we consider the challenges of cross-cultural leadership.   Transcript Welcome to episode 162 of the Leadership Today podcast where each week we bring research to life in your leadership. This week we consider the challenges of cross-cultural leadership. How have you found working across different cultures? Perhaps you've travelled to other parts of the world, or maybe the business you work in has a broad cultural representation. Sometimes it can be challenging to figure out what's a personality difference and what's a cultural difference. I've been fortunate enough to work across a wide range of cultures, yet I'm still surprised by cultural differences. Given the global audience for the work we do, I'm always conscious of cultural assumptions that might creep in to the way we think about leadership development. It can be challenging working across cultures. There are core assumptions in our cultural world view that we may not even recognise. Researchers have built various frameworks to try to understand how cultures differ. One of the better know frameworks is the Lewis Model of Cultural Types. As someone who had travelled the world and spoke 10 languages, Richard Lewis realised he was in a good position to explore cultural differences. His book “When Cultures Collide”, first released in 1996, brought together a framework to understand how cultures can differ. His model is based on a triangle, with the points of the triangle being linear-active, multi-active, and reactive. Lewis then plots countries at each of these points and along the edges of the triangle. Linear-active cultures are about doing one thing at a time. He saw linear-active cultures such as those in Germany and Switzerland as cool, factual, decisive planners. The UK and US are also close to this cultural type. Multi-active is about trying to do multiple things at once. Multi-active countries such as Brazil, Argentina and Mexico have cultures that are warm, emotional and impulsive. Parts of Europe including Italy and Greece, and sub-saharan Africa are also near this cultural type. Reactive cultures are about responding to others. Reactive cultures like Vietnam were described by Lewis as courteous, accommodating, compromising and polite. China and Japan are also near this cultural type. It's clear how these cultural types can create conflict and confusion when we bring them together. So how do we tackle these cultural differences. Here are six ideas: Be aware cultural differences exist. Keeping this in mind as you work across cultures will help you be prepared. Don't fall back on to stereotypes. This is a risk in Lewis' work - that we end up stereotyping millions of people just based on where they live. In any cultural group there can be a very broad range of expressions and approaches. Be actively curious about other cultures and people. Questions are always a great place to start. Be actively curious about people and their cultural background. Talk about culture. If your team works across cultures, help them to step back to reflect on effectiveness. Clarify expectations. Cultural differences and conflict can be amplified when there are unclear expectations. Discuss how we can best work together. This is a great levelling questions that allows everyone to contribute. Next time you're working across cultures or in a culturally diverse team, take a few moments to review these points and apply them. Have a great week.

Raj Subrameyer is a motivational speaker, writer, and tech career coach who helps people step into the leadership role of their dreams through his services and speeches. He is helping countless people to discover their zone of genius and leverage it to live the life that they love. In his spare time, he loves traveling with his family and discovering new experiences which include craft beer.In today’s episode, Raj and Monique are talking about how overcoming self-doubt, low confidence, and low self-esteem as an introvert helped Raj become one of the top keynote speakers in the tech industry. The episode also goes into detail about discovering new ways to be highly productive and produce impactful work throughout this journey. HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE[01:27] - Monique introduces her guest, Raj Subrameyer.[01:38] - Tell us about who you are, where you from, and what you do?I’m a tech career coach.I do speaking and writing for companies, I speak at various conferences on different topics, which includes AI, software development, and also non-tech topics like leadership, motivation, and then self-confidence.[07:19] - When was the point that you felt like you had to change something to get out of this “inferiority syndrome” that you felt trapped within your family? The trigger-event was in the 2nd year of under-grad My family and me were in my room and I was again advised on what career path to take and it just didn’t feel right [09:13] - What made you think at that moment when you step up and speak up and prove them wrong? It's all those small moments, which actually brought me to that moment where I had the blow-up with my parents. And I think it was all a gradual transition of small wins, which gave me the confidence.[11:38] - How did your parents react? They were pretty shocked. And they were taken aback and they didn't see that comment at all. [14:44] - What do you think did this situation cause within your brother, watching all of that?My brother was oblivious, in terms of what was happening inside me, not to ay that he's a great guy.[21:17] - Talk to me about the decision to move to the US.I came to the US in 2008 to pursue my master’s in software engineering.[38:01] - Raj shares his experiences on the intercultural differences.[48:34] - What was the biggest thing that changed for you being an introvert? I started looking for opportunities where I could get out of my comfort zone. [53:36] - What are you doing at that moment to overcome this fear and still introduce yourself?The first thing is I realized everyone was human and they started from somewhere, everyone comes out as a baby.[57:19] - What does efficiency mean to you? It would be trying to optimize processes. You can help to solve complex problems with simple solutions, and also help to finish work ahead of time.[58:14] - Which of the three things would you do over and over again, to basically build your success up again?Finding your purpose. Serving others to be happy in life. It's never too late to make a change.AWESOME RESOURCES THAT WE TALKED ABOUT IN THIS EPISODEBook 1: https://rebrand.ly/skyrocketyourcareer - Book by Raj Subrameyer Book 2: https://www.amazon.com/When-Cultures-Collide-3rd-Leading/dp/1904838022 - Book by Richard D. LewisBook 3: https://www.amazon.com/Talk-Like-TED-Public-Speaking-Secrets/dp/1250041120 - Book by Carmine GalloIMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE“You can never find a small-minded traveler.” - Raj Subrameyer.“You can help people solve complex problems with simple solutions.” - Raj Subrameyer.“Efficiency means trying to optimize processes.” - Raj Subrameyer.FIND MORE ABOUT RAJ SUBRAMEYER HEREWEBSITE: https://www.rajsubra.com/LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajsubra/FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/raj.subrameyer.9Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/Efficiency-on-Demand. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this session, we traipse around the world and ponder how culture informs entertainment. Your 30 Minutes of Diabolical begins now… If you enjoy the show, never miss a session and subscribe on iTunes. You can reach Chuck on Twitter @Romba and Curtis @86Cujo. Feel free to tweet us away, but be sure to use the hashtag #TeamDiabolical for all tweets about the […] The post 30MOD: V2|23 – When Cultures Collide. appeared first on SquidNova Studios.

What time zone is it? The answer could dictate just how you do a presentation.  Becky talks about what humor, analogies and metaphors do and don't work across cultures.  Suggested reading "When Cultures Collide" by Richard Lewis available here.

Michael Covel speaks with Richard Lewis. Lewis is the author of When Cultures Collide and When Teams Collide. He is a cross-cultural expert who has been studying language and communication his entire career. He’s traveled to 130+ countries and speaks eleven different languages. Why have a language and communications expert on a trend following trading show? Covel explains: We live in a complete and real world. You’re not just a trend following robot. There are many facets to life and the ability to communicate can’t be ignored. Covel and Lewis discuss how Lewis’ love affair with language started; the best way to start learning a language; travel as a “magic elixir” of sorts; the Lewis model; cultural differences in language, and what Lewis means by linear-active, multi-active, and reactive; the idea of losing face in the context of cross-cultural communication; microculture and macroculture; cross-cultural teams vs. homogenous teams; normal and abnormal in a cultural context; paperwork and punctuality in different cultures; why the linear-active person confronts with logic, the multi-active person confronts emotionally, and the reactive person is never confronting; and why there’s much more to making a deal than just quantity and price. Want a free trend following DVD? Go to www.trendfollowing.com/win.