{"id":20945,"date":"2017-03-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/global2020prd.wpengine.com\/insights\/cross-cultural-training-tips\/"},"modified":"2020-05-26T08:21:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T08:21:09","slug":"cross-cultural-training-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/insights\/cross-cultural-training-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross cultural training tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Many training organizations approach cross cultural training from the perspective of knowledge and tips on cross cultural practices &#8211; and a little knowledge can be very helpful &#8211; particularly in contexts like greetings where you only get one chance to make a good impression.<\/p>\n<p>However, this is <em>not<\/em> the most valuable part of cross cultural training. Much of the basic knowledge you can get from books &#8211; a much more cost effective and convenient way to get access to this information.<\/p>\n<p>If you try to absorb all this detail in a cross cultural training session, it makes for boring training and participants do not retain all the detail. Best is to pick up a guide on a specific country you are visiting and read it on the trip or have a regional or global guide such as <a title=\"Kiss Bow Shake Hands\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/resources\/recommended-books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Kiss, Bow and Shake Hands series<\/a> to look up the specifics before you go.<\/p>\n<p>In training thousands of participants in cross cultural skills we have learned that cross cultural training should focus on the skills of diagnosing and understanding cross cultural differences and learning what to do about these differences in practical business settings like meetings, projects and decision making.<\/p>\n<p>What was the most important cross cultural skill that you learned in your career so far?<\/p>\n<p>Check out this interactive graphic on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/virtual-teams-training\/cross-cultural-training\/\">cross cultural learning path and training module contents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross cultural training tips<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","type-blog","training-virtual-teams"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - 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