COMMUNICATION | How to Avoid Misunderstandings and Work Worldwide (Skillshare)

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COMMUNICATION | How to Avoid Misunderstandings and Work Worldwide (Skillshare)

Are you Traveling, working internationally or living abroad? You want to engage and create effective relationships across the world? This course will help you to build culture competence. Being global means being able to deal with different cultures. Whether you are traveling abroad or living abroad or staying home but working with other cultures, this course will be beneficial for you.

Today, success is achieved by joint efforts of people from different cultural backgrounds, who have the will, skills and knowledge to effectively interact with each other.
The landscape of cultures is nothing new, but even so, it remains challenging to deal with other cultures.
Especially when communicating with other cultures, complications or embarrassing misunderstandings are still happening very frequently. A quick Google or YouTube search on cultural faux pas will give you tons of examples.
In our digital lifestyle nowadays, we’re only one click or like away from the other side of the world. Look around your neighbourhood, restaurant varieties, or colleagues at work, we see other cultures on a daily basis.
For each culture comes a set of rules and etiquette and preparing yourself with cultural courses, as this one, can help tremendously in your preparation and understanding of a new culture, both personal as professionally, whether you go abroad or stay home.
This course will help you to become more culturally sensitive, by creating awareness of your own culture identity as well as learning and understanding other cultures.
Being more culturally sensitive will help you to create great relationships with other cultures, whether at work, as a manager leading people, or working with people across the world or personally, trying to make friends anywhere in the world, You will now know how to be culturally competent!
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This self-assessment tool is designed to explore your individual cultural competence. Its purpose is to help you to consider your skills, knowledge, and awareness in your interactions with others. Its goal is to assist you in recognizing what you can do to become more effective in working and/or living in a diverse environment.

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