Whether at work or outside of it we meet people who do disagree a lot, challenge our way of thinking and force us to come up with more and more counterarguments. Why do they do that?
Are cultural dimensions useless?
In the previous post I mentioned quite a few advantages of using cultural dimensions when dealing with cultural differences and related challenges. This time I would like to talk about some counterarguments to show you a bigger picture of how they can be used.
Why to learn about cultural dimensions?
When talking about cultural differences I like using cultural dimensions as a starter to that conversation. Although there are both pros and cons of using them, and you need to use them wisely, there are many amazing advantages of using cultural dimensions when working across cultures.
The Culture Map – How much time do we have?
Differences and similarities in perception of time are maybe the easiest ones to spot in people’s behaviours and likely attributed to culture. Let’s take a closer look at the Scheduling scale of Meyer’s Culture Map.
The Culture Map – How to build trust while working across cultures
As difficult as it is to discuss trust, I’d like to touch upon the Trusting dimension of the Culture Map created by Erin Meyer. As always, I’ll start by briefly explaining what the two dimensions of this scale are and then deep dive into some examples from Meyer’s book as well as my own thoughts […]
Why do people complain about “everything”?
I can’t stand it anymore! So often here I hear that Polish people keep whinging about everything, they make conversations out of it and so on. But how can we not? The UK weather is really not the best, the flats are so expensive here, tube is so crowded (and always broken! So please spend […]
The Culture Map – How do we make decisions across cultures?
Decision making process preferences differ not only culture to culture, but also individual to individual. It makes it quite a difficult one to adjust to when moving abroad and requires a lot of patience and understanding.
The Culture Map – cross-cultural leadership
Leadership. A key to success in today’s business world. It seems like everyone knows what it means to be a leader, what skills to work on to be a better leader, how to work with people to be perceived as a good leader. But is it really?
The Culture Map – Evaluating scale. How to give cross-cultural feedback?
Giving constructive feedback has become an important skill in today’s business world. What does it mean to give a good feedback in a multicultural environment?
The Culture Map – Communication: Low and High context cultures
Low and high context cultures – what does that mean? How does England compare to Poland? What impacts country’s location on the communication scale?