Fundamentals of Cross Cultural Communication

Overview/Description

In today’s global economy, understanding how context, style, beliefs, and value systems influence the way we communicate and decode others' messages is more important than ever. This course attempts to explain various dimensions of a culture and how they affect the communication between individuals from different cultures by identifying the requirements of successful cross-cultural communication.

Effective communication is always a challenge, and when diverse cultures are introduced, good communication can become even more challenging. The course takes you through the communication styles for high or low-context situations and provides some key guidelines to improve your cross-cultural communication based on Hofstede's cultural dimensions model.

It helps you recognize behaviors that can hinder cross-cultural communication and suggests suitable actions to overcome them. It also offers some tips and strategies to build rapport across cultures.

This eLearning course covers the following topics in detail:

Target Audience:

• Individuals who want to develop and refine their cross-cultural communication skills
• Individuals responsible for leading teams either occasionally, for example as project managers, or more permanently as team leaders or line managers.