Business Cultural Awareness

Strategies for driving cultural awareness in the workplace, How to work with different cultures etc.

What you'll learn

How to work with different cultures

Tips to improve your company's organizational culture

Strategies for driving cultural awareness in your workplace

Ways to promote cultural diversity in the workplace

Implementing cultural awareness

Overcome culture shock in a foreign country

Measuring cultural awareness in the workplace

Requirements

Desire to understand cultural awareness in business

No special requirement

Description

  The importance of cultural awareness is growing with time. Cultural awareness means understanding the dynamic values and beliefs of different cultures. For better opportunities, understanding and respecting various cultures are necessary. By doing so people from different backgrounds can work together quickly. Lack of cultural awareness may mislead crucial decisions. Globalization has led to vast impact on the expansion of businesses worldwide. Hence organizations need to be wise to become culturally aware of dealing with international clients. As a result organizations will work more effectively and comfortably. Cultural awareness promotes people to build successful and professional relationship in diverse backgrounds. Unity is strength. Hence, people with diverse cultures form the best team. It provides businesses with an unlimited pool of talents and ideas. According to the society of human resource management, cultural differences impact the  productivity of business.   The task to promote cultural awareness in the workplace is to educate the employees. Companies should design a training program for the employees. It should include all the different ways to deal with diverse people. The training program must teach the employees how to work effectively in the increasingly diverse economy. It should cover the topics including communication, marketing and negotiation skills. Ethics and policies have always been an important part of every organization. To ensure the employees are culturally aware the next step is to create some cultural awareness policies and norms.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Cultural awareness

Lecture 3 Why is cultural awareness important?

Lecture 4 Benefits of cultural awareness in the workplace

Lecture 5 How can organizations promote cultural awareness

Lecture 6 Cultural awareness examples

Lecture 7 Measuring cultural awareness in the workplace

Section 2: Tips To Improve Your Company's Organizational Culture

Lecture 8 Create and communicate meaningful values

Lecture 9 Improve orientation and on boarding

Lecture 10 Engage employees all year round

Lecture 11 Communicate effectively with employees

Lecture 12 Have tough conversation and make tough decision

Section 3: Strategies For Driving Cultural Awareness In Your Workplace

Lecture 13 Invest in global citizenship training

Lecture 14 Promote good manners in employees

Lecture 15 Listen to foreign clients and colleagues

Lecture 16 Be aware of different time-zones

Section 4: Ways To Promote Cultural Diversity In The Workplace

Lecture 17 What is cultural diversity

Lecture 18 Challenges to cultural diversity in the workplace

Lecture 19 Offer employee resources group

Lecture 20 Avoid and call out problem language

Lecture 21 Avoid stereotypes

Lecture 22 Encourage employee expression

Section 5: How To work With Different Cultures

Lecture 23 Choosing the right frame of mind

Lecture 24 Building relationship

Lecture 25 Communicating effectively

Section 6: Overcome Culture Shock In A Foreign Country

Lecture 26 Overcome culture shock in a foreign country

Section 7: Implementing Culture Awareness

Lecture 27 Implementing cultural awareness

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