Intercultural Communication
» What guidelines, if any, should there be for social events? For example, should everyone attend, should certain topics be taboo, should there be a dress code?
Stage 2 Discuss the following questions.
» Could any of the guidelines you have written cause any issues?
» How do you think people from a culture other than your own would feel about these guidelines?
Have a meeting to change the guidelines. Imagine your team has been applying the guidelines from stage 1 for two weeks and has experienced some problems.
Try to use the language below to express these concerns and suggestions, for example those that show progress being blocked, slowed down or progressing such as ‘We can’t move forward with this because….
» Can we move on?
» This discussion is going in circles.
» Can we move forward with …?
» That’s a breakthrough!
» I’m completely lost!
» Moving forward, ….
» The bottleneck is ….
» The first step …/ the next step ….
» I haven’t got anywhere with them.
» … go backwards
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